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2800 BCE
Minoan
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Period: 2800 BCE to 1600 BCE
Minoan
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2660 BCE
Egypt - Old Kingdom
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Period: 2660 BCE to 2180 BCE
Egypt - Old Kingdom
The ''Age of Pyramids'', in this era were most pyramids built. It ended when the first illness occurred - poor harvests, warfare and lawlessness. -
2600 BCE
Maya Civilization
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Period: 2600 BCE to 250
Maya civilization
The Maya originated in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C.; they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize. -
2310 BCE
Sumerians
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Period: 2310 BCE to 1950 BCE
Sumerians
First known civilization in the Fertile Crescent.
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2080 BCE
Egypt - Middle Kingdom
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Period: 2080 BCE to 1640 BCE
Egypt - Middle Kingdom
Pharaohs restored power and moved the capital to Thebes. Focused on projects for the public trying to keep the people happy. Encouraged trade, improved transportation, built irrigation canals and made sure all people had plenty to eat. A Second Illness occurred, though, and a group of people from the East (the Hyksos) invaded Egypt and took over. They were able to conquer Egypt because they had horse-drawn carriages and weapons the Egyptians had never seen before. -
1950 BCE
The Beginning of the Decline of the Sumerians
Amorites/Babylonians defeated Sumeria, ruled by Hammurabi. They were responsible for the first written set of laws. -
1795 BCE
King Hammurabi reign
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Period: 1795 BCE to 1750 BCE
King Hammurabi reign
The king of ancient Mesopotamia who reigned in Babylon . He recorded a system of laws called the Code of Hammurabi and ordered 282 laws engraved in stone and placed in a public location for everyone to see. -
Period: 1770 BCE to 1595 BCE
Babylonians
A centralized government under King Hammurabi. -
1700 BCE
Bronze Age
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Period: 1700 BCE to 1000 BCE
Bronze Age
This time period is characteristic for it's use of bronze and the presence of writing in some areas. -
1640 BCE
Egypt - New Kingdom
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1640 BCE
Rule of Hyksos
His reign ended about 1570 B.C.. Eventually overthrown by the Egyptians and pharaohs are restored to power. -
Period: 1640 BCE to 1570 BCE
Egypt - New Kingdom
Egypt decided to avoid invasion by invading
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE
Mycenaean civilization
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Period: 1531 BCE to 1155 BCE
Amorites, the Kassites
Including these, other cultures dominated part or all of the Fertile Crescent. -
1500 BCE
Greek Civilization
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Period: 1500 BCE to 300 BCE
Greek Civilization
A civilization rose up, building their own culture, but using the alphabet of former civilization to create a new one. -
Period: 1500 BCE to 1027 BCE
Shang Dynasty
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Period: 1370 BCE to 1205 BCE
Hittites
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1200 BCE
Olmec Civilization
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Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmec Civilization
The ancient Olmec civilization is believed to have been centered around the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico area (today the states of Veracruz and Tabasco in Mexico) – further south east than the heart of the Aztec empire. The Olmec culture developed in the centuries before 1200 BC (or BCE), and declined around 400 BC. -
1075 BCE
Egypt - Late Period
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Period: 1075 BCE to 671 BCE
Egypt - Late Period
Was a Period of decline for Egypt. They lost their empire and faced many invasions. -
Period: 1027 BCE to 256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
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1000 BCE
Bantu
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1000 BCE
Natural Disasters
Natural Disaster destroyed the most famous of the Bronze Age Greek civilization, the Mycenaeans and Minoans. -
Period: 1000 BCE to
Bantu
The Bantu migrated from Congo or the Niger Delta Basin. Their migration throughout Africa is one of the largest migrations in human history. One reason may be that overpopulation encouraged them to move away in order to practice agriculture. Another could be that they were in search of fertile land. They were an agricultural people and introduced crops such as millet and sorghum. They may also have introduced iron smelting and iron tools. -
890 BCE
Assyrians
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Period: 890 BCE to 600 BCE
Assyrians
The Assyrians were fierce warriors whose kingdom was upstream on the Tigris River from the Babylonians. Their armies conquered Babylon in 911BCE and over the next three centuries, the Assyrians built the largest and powerful empire the world had known at that time. -
753 BCE
Ancient Rome
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Period: 753 BCE to 190
Ancient Rome
Begins with the story of Romulus and Remus. -
500 BCE
Dark Ages - Early Middle Age
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Period: 500 BCE to 1000
Dark Ages - Early Middle Age
It is said that at that time there was a ''lack of forward thinking ideas and practices'', but actually the term ''dark'' was used to describe the decline in later Latin literature following the collapse of the Western Roman empire.
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Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin Dynasty
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Period: 202 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty
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27
Roman Empire
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Period: 27 to 476
Roman Empire
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330
Constantine established Constantinople
Today Constantinople is called Istanbul -
337
Death of Constantine
The emperor died in Nicomedia. The empire was thereafter by agreement parted between his three sons. -
395
The Byzantine Empire
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Period: 395 to 1453
The Byzantine Empire
It became one of the leading civilizations in the world before falling to an Ottoman Turkish onslaught in the 15th century. -
1000
High Middle Ages
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Period: 1000 to 1300
High Middle Ages
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1095
Crusades
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Period: 1095 to 1099
First Call for a Crusade
Pope Urban II. called for a Crusade to recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims. In this time they fought their way through the Holy Land, looting and killing many Muslims and Jews. -
1206
The Mongol Empire
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Period: 1206 to 1368
The Mongol Empire
Founded by Genghis Khan. The origin of the Mongols was the Jin Dynasty, ancient chinese people., Through the Mongols there was an increase of cultural exchange and wealth all along the trade paths. Marco Polo traveled to the Mongol Empire. The effect on Russia was that Russia became uinified for the first time. -
1345
Aztecs
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Period: 1345 to 1521
Aztecs
The Aztecs were a wandering Native American tribe who came to Mexico during the 13th century. There they built a great civilization including cities, pyramids, and temples. In 1519, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico and defeated the Aztecs. -
1400
Renaissance
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Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
The goods and knowledge brought back by the crusaders touched off a new wave of learning and cultural creativity in western Europe, the “rebirth” or “Renaissance.” Beginning in Northern Italy. It led to the questioning of the power of the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. By the 1500’s, this would lead to open rebellion and division within the Catholic Church. Led by men such as Martin Luther, John Calvin and a reluctant King Henry VIII of England, this era known as the Protestant Reformation. -
1415
Age of Exploration
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Period: 1415 to 1531
Age of Exploration
Many European countries began to explore other parts of the world. Reasons were finding new spices to trade (luxury items), the spread of Christianity, travel was made easier: compass, maps,.... the monarchs sent explorers in search of wealth to claim as their own and also wanting new lands. Important explorers were: Prince Henry, Bartholomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Amergio Vespucci, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Ferdinand Magellan, Samuel de Champlain, Robert La Salle. -
1438
Incas
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Period: 1438 to 1533
Incas
The Incas were a native South American people that once ruled one of the largest and richest empires in the Americas. Their empire covered much of present-day Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile and parts of Columbia and Argentina. The Inca empire was conquered by invading Spain in the 16th century. -
1517
Reformation - Martin Luther
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Period: 1517 to 1521
Reformation - Martin Luther
Martin Luther, a 16th-century monk and theologian, was one of the most significant figures in Christian history. His beliefs helped birth the Reformation—which would give rise to Protestantism as the third major force within Christendom, alongside Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. His actions had already set the Reformation in motion, which would introduce new religious, political, and economic trajectories to Europe and the world. -
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The Age of Enlightenment and The Age of Revolutions
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The First Opium War
The breakup of the EEIC, who established a monopoly, led to a huge increase in opium traffic and because a part of the English public now clamored for a greater access to China's huge market, and Britain would also use bluster and the threat of force if neccessary. It was the immediate cause for the First Opium War. -
Taiping Rebellion
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Taiping Rebellion
The humiliation during the First Opium War and westernization that supplanted traditional values were among other major causes of the rebellion in Japan. The rebellion had a negative impact on population density, but positive effects on industrialization and urbanization through change in endowment, human capital, and official stricture. The Taiping Rebellion, in which 20 – 30 million people died, was the deadliest civil war in human history. -
Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Japan
Commodore Perry was sent by the American Government to make a treaty between Japan as they did with China. Through the American visit the Japanese, technologies were shared to the once completely isolated Japanese. New things from the Western culture influenced Japan tremendously. Commodore Perry's service was not only to America and Japan, but likewise to the civilized world. -
Imperialism
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Imperialism
Imperialism is the domination of one country's political, economic, or cultural life by another. The major colonizers from Europe were Russia, Britain and France. Through the exploit that goes hand in hand with imperialism, the colonization powers became wealthier and more powerful. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand was the heir and archduke of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo. -
WWI
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WWI
The were many events that caused WWI, but the start event after which war was officially declared was the assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian heir, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo. Alliances forced countries, who had nothing to do with the break out of war between Austro-Hungary and Serbia, to take their side in the war. Eventhough everybody looses in war, Germany lost the war and Fance, Britain and the US made a peace treaty, which laid a heavy burden on the Germans. -
Great Depression
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Period: to
Great Depression
Was the worst economic downturn in the US history. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business. Out of work Americans filled long breadlines, begged for food, or sold apples on street corners. -
WWII
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WWII
Hitler was the 'Führer' of Nazi-Germany. The 'Holocaust' took place, killing millions of people, not only Jews but homosexuals, handicaped people, gypsies, and people who stood up against his regime. The suffering of the Germans were great after WWI and several as Hitler did, took the opportunity to gain power through promising food, work, and freedom under his partie's control. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II on the side of the Allies the next day. The attack was preceded by months of negotiations between the U.S. and Japan over the future of the Pacific. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
Atomic bombs in Hiroshima
The US dropped an atomic bomc on Japan, causing a great destruction and killing hundredthousands of people. -
Atomic bomb in Nagasaki
The bomb was dropped only few days after the one in Hiroshima. Japan was really damaged and surrendered to the Allies. After Japan surrendered, the WWII ended once and for all. -
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The Cold War
A bitter rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union, the two superpowers after WWII, that lasted for almost 50 years. -
Arms Race - Space Programs
The USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Khrushchev was the leader of the USSR at that time. As a result the US creates NASA, National Aeronatuics & Space Administration to make a space program that kept up with the Russians. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Under Castro in 1959 Cuba was under a communist dictatorship. Cuba was a satellite state of the USSR. Kennedy, planned to invade Cuba (Bay of Pigs Invasion). USSR gave more weapons to Cuba after Bay of Pigs. A secret missile base on the island was discovered by satellite photos in 1962. Kennedy ordered a "strict quarantine" of Cuba; no warships carrying missiles would be allowed in or out. USSR leader Khrushchev agreed to take the missiles out of Cuba. This was the closest we came to atomic war.