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(5000 B.C) Egyptians started farming . By staying in one place and farm, the Egyptians can build civilization of their own.
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(4950 B.C) The Nile river would sometimes flood and ruined tons of crops for people. This will ruined many people lives because there are not enough food to go around.
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(4500s B.C) people began settling on Mesopotamia. The place was filled with swamps.
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(3300 B.C) Sumerians arrived on Mesopotamia. The Sumerians began farming.
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(3300 B.C) Sumerians arrived on Mesopotamia. They stayed there and built a civilization of their own.
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(3200) Sumerians harvested a lot of wheat and barley during harvest time. These results helped turned their little villages into a civilization.
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(3200 B.C) People were farming in villages along the Indus valley . This could lead them to making civilization.
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2.(3100) The Sumerians built irrigation ditches to get their water.This way their way or life and civilization can be easy.
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(2950 B.C) Women could work as merchants and artisans. They have more rights than other women in other city states.
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(2750 B.C) Sumerian crops surpluses allowed them to increased long range trade and for other things that they need.
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(2600 B.C) Trading began during this time period.. This could lead them into becoming a more powerful and richer village.
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(2630 B.C) The top is the king, wealthy land owners were below the king, and below the wealth land owners were the merchants. This shows that the Egyptians were organized.
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(2620 B.C) Some slaves could earn their way to freedom. This gave the slaves some rights and freedom.
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(2610 B.C) Women could work as merchant or trade property. This shows that women has as much rights as men.
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(2600 B.C) The people in Indus Valley were building mud bricks platform on their city to protect it from flooding. This will provided them protection from flooding.
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(2400 B.C) The Sumerians believed in many gods. They believed in Polytheism.
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(2500 B.C) Egyptians built pyramids. They were getting stronger and stronger as an empire.
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(2500 B.C) The Indians were using tons of bricks to built their walls. This will provided them with tons of protection from invaders.
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(2500 B.C) The first toy was made out of Clay. This natural resources can be use for anything.
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(2450 B.C) The Harappan language are made up of 400 symbols. This helped them communicated with each other.
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(2500B.C) The Sumerians were ruled under dynasties. This meant that their life and civilization were now under the rule of a new government.
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(2350 B.C) Sargon of Akkad defeated the city state of Sumer. Sumer is put under a new rule.
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(2300 B.C) The Sumerians invented the cuneiform. This meant that Archaeologists can easy find out about their histories and events.
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(2180 B.C) Powers of the Pharaohs declined. The end of the old kingdom.
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(2040-1640 B.C) Pharaohs regained power. The Began of the Middle Kingdom.
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(2030 B.C) Pharaohs made people dogged a canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.This canal helped improved trading and transportation.
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(2020 B.C) pharaohs started draining the swamps of lower Egypt to make for lands for farming. This will provided more foods for the people.
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(2000 B.C) Mycenaeans migrated on Greek land. The start of a big civilization.
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(2010 B.C) Pharaohs made people built huge dikes to channel the Nile's flood water for irrigation.
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(2000s B.C) According to legend, the first dynasty named Xia emerged during this time. The people of Xia was a mathematician and an engineer.
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(2000 B.C) Nomadic warriors Amorites invaded Mesopotamia. Sumer is put under a new ruler.
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(2000 B.C) Chinese Settlements grew in China's first city. China is coming more powerful.
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(1792 B.C) Hammurabi started making his code of laws. His code of laws brought orders to the country.
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(1750 B.C) The quality of buildings in Indus Valley declined. The cities are no longer filled with beautiful quality buildings.
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(1700 B.C) Shang dynasty began in 1700. The Shang dynasty was the first dynasty to leave written records.
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(1699 B.C) The Shang worshiped tons of gods. Their most important one was Shang Di.
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(1680 B.C) The Shang was the first to leave written records. Those records helped us find out what happened during the Shang dynasty.
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(1650 B.C) The rich would lived in a clay and straw made house and the poor would lived in huts outside of the city wall.
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(1630 B.C) Hyksos ruled Egypt. Marked the New Kingdom.
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(1640 B.C) A group of people moved into Egypt. A new Group of people with different cultures moved into Egypt(Hyksos).
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(1600 B.C) The Shang used a lot of woods to built The Anyang city. They probably had a lot of resources.
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(1500 B.C) Mycenaeans traded with the Minoan. They started seaborne trade.
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(1500 B.C) The Aryans influenced the Indian civilizations. They are exchanging ideas and thoughts on things.
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(1500 B..C) The Aryans migrated into The Indus Valley. The influences of the Aryans made the Indian civilizations grew once again.
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(550 B.C) Boys had to attend military school and girls have to take care of the family and house. Each gender had a role in Athens.
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(551 B.C) Confucius was born. He started a popular beliefs .
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(505 B.C) A couple of people from the aristocratic name Patricians, elected themselves. They control everything in the city.
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(509 B.C) Rome overthrew the last tyrant. Rome decided to be a Republic.
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(470 B.C) City States started putting money in an alliance group bank. Athens started using the money to beautified itself.
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(494 B.C) The Plebeians challenged the Patricians for power. In the end, the Patricians gave the Plebeians more rights and powers.
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(450 B.C) The Plebeians forced the Patricians to write down the laws. The code soon became as the Law of the Twelve Tables.
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(431 B.C) Sparta declared war on Athens. This could be the end of Athens.
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(320 B.C) Alexandria became a big commerce trade center . The city was getting very rich .
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(264 B.C) Rome fought with Carthage. The Punic wars destroyed Carthage.
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(300 B.C) Archimedes built a stream engine. This stream engine will one day become very important.
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(256 B.C) The Zhou dynasty ended. The social class will be changed due to the fact that no one cares about the king. The Nobles are at the top now.
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(250 B.C) Asoka wages war against the kingdom of Kalinga, which is now modern day Orissa.
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(250 B.C) Roads and canals were built to help people. Transportation and trading can be easy now.
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(248 B.C) Farming became easier because of all the iron tools invented. This will helped the people produce more food.
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-(248 B.C) Asoka becomes ruler of Mauryan Empire in India. The empire had a new leader in charge.
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(133 B.C) Tiberius and his younger brother Gaius began redistributing public lands to small farmers.
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(107 B.C) Poor people began joining the military. More jobs are created.
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(26 B.C) The Pax Romana continued. During this time, Rome has a widespread trade.
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(20 B.C) The Augustan Age began. This age produced a lot of great writers.
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(15 B.C) Virgil Created a poem named Aeneid. This was another popular epic.
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(AD 100) A physician named Galen wrote several volumes of medical stuffs during his day.
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( 400s A.D) Malaria may has weaken the Roman empire. This could one of the reason that Roman Empire fell.
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(3000 B.C) Kings were on top of the social classes. They were very powerful and important than landholders or merchants.
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2.(2500 B.C) Sumerians exchanged ideas and products with its neighbors. They shared their cultures with each other.
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(3000 B.C) The Egyptians had a writing system named the Hieroglyphics. This will helped them communicated with each other.
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(1367 B.C) Reign of Akhnaton III and Queen Nefertiti promoted the worshiped of 1 god, Aton.
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(771 B.C) Nomads killed the Zhou Monarch. An important died due to an invasion by the Nomads.
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(254 B.C) Coins were produced to improved trading among the people. This will helped the civilize the Zhou dynasty.
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(1200 B.C) The Mycenaeans fought against Troy. A big 10 years war that could have changed the faith of either city.
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(750 B.C) City State or polis is the political unit in Greece. Polis is surrounded by tons of villages.
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(1150 B.C) no written records. probably because no one knows how to write.
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(750 B.C) Homer created the Lliad. This was a very popular epic or poem.
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(621 B.C) Draco made everyone equal under the law. This gave everyone freedom and rights.
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(594 B.C) Solon made more democratic laws. He stopped slavery .
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(430 B.C) A Plague struck Athens and killed 1/3 of the population.
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(753 B.C) Rome was born. Rome was a very important empire, with rich history.
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(1000s B.C) A group named Latins migrated to Italy. They were probably the one that created Rome.
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(752 B.C) The Mediterranean Sea is below Rome on the map. The Mediterranean Sea made Seaborne trading possible for Rome.
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(2550 B.C) People believed that the way how buildings were built and such were because of how the Indus had a strong central government. This could be the reason why they have achieved so many things.