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300
Camels were first to the Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan civilization began
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476
The Fall of Rome
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500
The beginning of the Byzantine Empire
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500
The Ghana Empire began
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552
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
The seventeen article constitution began
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad became a prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
The official edition of the Qu'ran was written
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Jan 1, 700
traders brought Islam to West Africa
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Jan 1, 710
Nara became the capital of Japan
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Jan 1, 750
Bookmaking began to spread the Qu'ran
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Jan 1, 1000
Feudalism begins
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Jan 1, 1000
The Tale of Genji, the first novel, was written
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Jan 1, 1050
moveable type was invented in China
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Jan 1, 1054
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches split
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Jan 1, 1065
Song dynasty began civil service exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista began with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The first crusade began
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Jan 1, 1099
The First crusade ended
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Jan 1, 1146
The second crusade began
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Jan 1, 1148
The second crusade ended
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Jan 1, 1189
The third crusade began
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Jan 1, 1192
The first shogun came to power
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Jan 1, 1192
The third crusade ended
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Period: Jan 1, 1192 to
The era of the samurai
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Jan 1, 1200
The aztecs arrived in the valley of mexico
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Jan 1, 1200
the incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jan 1, 1203
The Ghana Empire ended
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Jun 1, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
The Mali Empire began
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols destroyed Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
The mongol dynasty began
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Jan 1, 1300
The Mongol empire was weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1304
Humanism began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1312
Manu Mussa was the first Islamic leader
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs started building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Year's War begins.
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Jan 1, 1347
The beginning of the Bubonic plague in Europe
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu became a center of Arabic learning
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Jan 1, 1368
The Mongols dynasty ended
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Jan 1, 1368
The Ming dynasty began
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Jan 1, 1400
The Inquisition took place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He made his first voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
the incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
The end of the Byzantine Empire
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Year's war ends
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Jan 1, 1460
The songhai empire began
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Jan 1, 1469
The Medici family began to rule Florence
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa
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Jan 1, 1492
The Spanish conquered Grenada
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama began to sail to India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot landed in Canada
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil
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Jan 1, 1500
The microscope was invented
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Jan 1, 1504
Michealangelo completed his sculpture of David
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus stated that the earth revolved around the sun
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses
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Jan 1, 1519
the aztec empire ended
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1520
Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano landed in North America
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Jan 1, 1525
William Tyndale translates the Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
The Inca empire ended
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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Jan 1, 1534
King Henry VIII created Anglicanism
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Jan 1, 1541
John Calvin created Calvinism
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe
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Jan 1, 1545
The council of Trent was formed
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the songhai empire ended
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Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage
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Galileo decided to build a telescope
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The mail empire ended
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Period: to
The Thirty year's war
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The Ming dynasty ended
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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Newton published a book about gravity
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Charlemagne's christian empire begins
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The end of Charlemagne's Christian Empire
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The Tang dynasty began
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The Tang dynasty ended
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The Japanese invented kana
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Heian-kyo became the capital of Japan
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The Tang dynasty recorded a formula for gunpowder
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Period: to Jan 1, 1185
The Heian Period
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Period: to
Buddhism religion expanded in the Tang dynasty