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Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
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Sumerians develop the first known human writing.
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The Nile River Valley Civilization was a perfect place for the first people to live.
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Noah is born.
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The flood came and wiped out the world's population other than Noah and his family because they were in an ark that he built. Then, when the people of the earth repopulated, they revolted against God and attempted to build a tower to heaven. Then two types of people emerged: the Egyptians and the Sumerians.
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Abraham is born.
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They lived on the island of Crete and were ruled by
King Minos. They built powerful ships and were known as great traders.
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King Djoser was the king of Egypt. His architect built the first pyramid.
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Sumerians attacked by the Elamites and Amorites (the beginning of the decline of the Sumerians.)
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Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age.
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They invented printing techniques, papermaking, gunpowder, and the compass.
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Hammurabi, king of the Amorites, writes code of law.
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They built the first city-states. They were the
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Olmec civilization rise and fall.
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Bantu Migration throughout Africa
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He did this to unite Greece and to use the Greeks to face the Persian empire.
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He was murdered by senators because they thought he was taking too much power away from them.
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Julius Caesar Is Named Dictator Of Rome
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Jesus is crucified but rises from the dead three days later.
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Maya originated in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C.; they rose to prominence around A.D. 250.
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Constantine the great moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the city of Byzantine. Founding the Byzantine Empire.
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Christianity is welcomed to Rome by Constantine the Great.
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Constantine the Great legalized the Christianity when it was previously persecuted in the Roman Empire.
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The Vandals sacked and destroyed Rome.
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From the damage of the Vandals, the Roman Empire was weakened and eventually collapsed.
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Beginning and end of the Middle Ages.
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Clovis became king of the Franks.
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Muhammad was born. He was the founder of the religion of Islam.
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The Battle of Tours was a significant conflict between the North African forces of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abd al-Rahman and the Frankish army led by Charles Martel. It took place between the cities of Tours and Poitiers in western Gaul.
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Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor.
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Alfred, King of England, defeats Danish invaders.
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Christianity is legalized in Russia.
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No one knows for certain why the Mayans disappeared, but a common theory is that climate change in the form of drought brought the Mayans collapse.
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William of Normandy conquered England.
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars with the objective of recovering the Holy Land from Islamic rule.
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The Silk Road was a trade route from China to the west.
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Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire.
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The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of Kievan Russia, sacking numerous cities including the largest such as Kiev and Chernigov.
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Upon reaching China, Marco Polo entered the court of powerful Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, who dispatched him on trips to help administer the realm.
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The Triple Alliance marks the beginning of the Aztec's rule.
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Start and end of the Renaissance.
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Start of the Hundred Years' war between France and England.
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The Black Death or the Bubonic Plague was a deadly virus that started in China but then spread to Europe through trade.
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The mass infection stopped leaving many dead.
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A Florentine sculptor best known for his life size
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The Incas quickly grew in power, but soon fell when Spain took control of their capital in 1533.
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Johan Gutenberg created the first printing press.
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He was a skilled painter, sculptor, architect,
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The Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople.
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He worked in Florence and Rome; he was talented
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Worked in both Florence and Rome. Most famous for his "Thee School of Athens."
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European explorers ventured out from their homelands to explore, conquer, and colonize other continents.
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Columbus discovers America.
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Amerigo Vespucci makes landfall on South America, becoming the first person to do so.
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Henry VIII came to the throne when his father Henry VII died on 21 April 1509.
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The start and end of the Reformation.
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Martin Luther writes his "95 These" and nails it to the church's door.
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Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico and defeated the Aztecs.
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Shakespeare is famous for his poems.
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Start and end of the Industrial Revolution.
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He led the French revolution.
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The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power.
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After the Latin American Revolution, Spanish America was split into more than a dozen different countries.
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Through a series of battles, Italy was completely reunified.
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Communism is founded by Karl Marx.
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The four major reasons behind the unification of Germany are the role of Bismark, the strength of the Prussian economy, the decline of Austria, and the military power of Prussia.
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The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners.
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This declaration marked the beginning of WWI.
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Start and end of WWI.
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The Lusitania is sunk and 1,195 people are dead, including 123 Americans.
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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in the Russian Empire. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war.
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The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. It also called for the creation of the League of Nations.
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The Great Depression began due to the stock market crash. A combination of the New Deal and World War II helped bring the USA out of the Great Depression.
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Adolf Hitler is named Führer, leader, of Germany.
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Start and end of WWII.
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The Blitz was a period of time in which Germany mercilessly bombed Britain's cities.
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This surprise attack brought the US into WWII.
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Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. The Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate France from Nazi occupation.
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Victory in Europe celebrates the unconditional surrender of the German army.
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The United States developed the Atomic Bomb to prevent Germany from developing it first.
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The US dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan which eventually led to Japan to surrender to the US.
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Victory over Japan is celebrated because of the surrender of Japan, marking the end of WWII.
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North Korea invaded South Korea, so the US jumped in to help South Korea. The reason why the US did this was to prevent what is known as the Domino Theory to occur. In the end Korea was split the same as it was previously.
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North Vietnam wanted to reunite the country under Communism, its political and economic system. South Vietnam fought to keep this from happening. So the US joined to help South Vietnam to prevent the Domino Theory from happening. In the end North Vietnam won and reunited the country under Communist rule. This victory also proved the Domino Theory wrong.
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The Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles.
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A period in time in which the USA and Russia were at conflict with each other and ended up creating enormous amounts of weapons while no actual shot was fired.