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The period between the appearance of humans on the planet roughl 2.5 million years ago.
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Documents the human migration from Africa and first use of tools. -
Humans settle in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and ancient Egypt. -
Formation of planned cities, introduction of ironworks, steel, and writing systems. -
One of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
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The 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Bretons, Flemish, and men from other French provinces
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A collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English.
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The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg.
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This is the era the Europeans "wake-up", expand, and build empires.
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Italian navigator and explorer Giovanni Caboto discovered what we know today as North America.
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The study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe. -
A cultural “rebirth” in art, music, literature, society, and philosophy. -
a book about half of Shakespeare's plays that had never previously appeared in print.
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Religious movement in which Lutheranism broke with the Catholic church and redefined Christianity. -
The influences of both the Renaissance and the Enlightenment led to a technological boom.
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Gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America
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Reign of Queen Victoria I that saw increased urbanization, the American Civil War and the end of African slavery. -
Century of time in which France, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States colonized in other nations around the world. -
Wartime period that began with Germany’s invasion of Poland and ends with the surrender of Japan, the last standing Axis power.
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