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Period: 1600 BCE to 1406 BCE
Shang State
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Period: 1045 BCE to 256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
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Period: 771 BCE to 256 BCE
Warring States period
takes place during Eastern Zhou rule -
Period: 400 BCE to 200 BCE
"Barbarian" Invasions of Roman Empire
The Celts raided Italy during the fourth-second centuries BCE. -
Period: 340 BCE to 265 BCE
Roman state expansion through Italian Peninsula
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Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic War
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Period: 247 BCE to 224
Height of Parthian Dynasty
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Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE
Qin Empire of Shi Huangdi
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Period: 220 BCE to 206
Han Empire in China
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Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE
Second Punic War
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Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
Third Punic War
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Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE
Lifetime of Julius Caesar
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80 BCE
Carthage is founded
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Period: 50 BCE to 45 BCE
Beginning of Roman Republic
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Period: 27 BCE to 14 BCE
Rule of Augustus (Octavian)
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165
Start of Antonine Plague
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Period: 224 to 651
Sassanid Dynasty
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Period: 306 to 337
Reign of Constantine
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325
Nicene Creed
Emperor Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire -
476
End of Western Roman Empire
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541
Outbreak of Justinian Plague
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Period: 570 to 632
Life of Muhammad
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Period: 581 to 618
Sui Dynasty in China
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Period: 618 to 907
Tang Dynasty in China
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Period: 632 to 661
Arab conquests of the Byzantine Empire
Arab armies conquer much of the Byzantine Empire, but the empire survives. -
Period: 661 to 750
Umayyad Caliphate
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Period: 676 to 892
Silla Dynasty in Korea
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Period: 701 to 800
Rise of Roman Catholic Church
Catholic Church based in Rome begins converting much of northern Europe in the 8th century CE. -
Period: 750 to 843
Rise and division of Carolingian rule
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Period: 750 to 1258
Abbasid Caliphate
The caliphate declined when it fragmented in the 13th century. -
Period: 750 to 1258
Abbasid Caliphate
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755
An Lushan Rebellion
An attack on the Tang Dynasty that forced them to enlist Central Asian help, losing their control over all of Central Asia and causing an emergence of xenophobia in China. -
Period: 794 to 1185
Heian Japan
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Period: 800 to 1050
Viking raids
height of Viking pillaging, conquering, and expansion -
Period: 802 to 1431
Khmer Empire in SE Asia
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Period: 929 to 1031
Córdoba Caliphate
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Period: 960 to 1279
Song Dynasty in China
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1000
Turkish invasions
Turkish migrants and armies spread into the heartlands of the Islamic world. -
Period: 1096 to 1231
Crusades
Christian military conquests that came in waves—their main goal was to take the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from Muslim control. -
Period: 1200 to 1368
Mongol Yuan Dynasty
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1320
Black Death begins in China
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1347
Black Death reaches Italian port cities
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1453
Byzantine Empire falls