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Paleolithic age
second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
750,000-15,000 BCE
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Neolithic revolution
The Neolithic Revolution is the first agricultural revolution--the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.
10,000 BCE
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Bronze age
(archeology) a period between the Stone and Iron Ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons 2900 BCE
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Old kingdom
Ancient Egypt during the III-VI Dynasties, from c. 2980 to 2475 b.c. The Old Kingdom was noted as "the Age of the Pyramids," with magnificent monuments built by rulers such as Cheops.
2980 to 2475 b.c.
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Middle kingdom
Term that ancient China used to refer to themselves. The believed they were the center of the Earth, or the Middle Kingdom.
2030–1640 B.C.
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Shang dynasty
the imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC
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Zhou dynasty
the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
1122 to 221 BC
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Akhenaten & Nefertiti
Nefertiti (ca. 1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC) was the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten.
1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC
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Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon), Egyptian twt-ˁnḫ-ı͗mn, approx. ; 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c.1333 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom.
1341 BC – 1323 BC
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Ramses II
king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments
1304 and 1237 BC
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Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Pyramid of Khufu and the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.
2470 B.C.
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Babylonian empire
Babylonia was an ancient cultural region in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), with Babylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (fl. ca. 1696 – 1654 BC, short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire.
1696 – 1654 BC
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Sumerian empire
An ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley. It flourished under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II but declined after 562 b.c. and fell to the Persians in 539.
562 b.c.
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Harappa civilization
The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) which was centred mostly in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent and which flourished around the Indus River basin.
3300–1300 BCE , 2600–1900 BCE
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Mohenjo-Daro
Mohenjo-daro (lit. Mound of the Dead, Sindhi: मोहन जोदड़ो موئن جو دڙو) was one of the largest city-settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization of ancient India situated in the Larkana District of Sindh in modern-day Pakistan
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Silk Road
an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles); followed by Marco Polo in the 13th century to reach Cathay
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Hammurabi law code
The Code of Hammurabi was a comprehensive set of laws, considered by many scholars to be the oldest laws established; they were handed down four thousand years ago by King Hammurabi of Babylon. Although the Code of Hammurabi was essentially humanitarian in its intent and orientation, it contained the "eye for an eye" theory of punishment, which is a barbarian application of the concept of making the punishment fit the crime. The Code of Hammurabi recognized such modern concepts as that of corpor -
Gilgamesh
a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
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aryans
relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC, displacing the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples.
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Moses and the Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.
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The Torah
(in Judaism) the law of God as revealed to Moses and recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew scriptures (the Pentateuch).
2nd century BCE
