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Yuhhh God made the worlddd WHOOO!!!!
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This civilization originated in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in a part of the Middle East called Mesopotamia. It was one of the few cases of a civilization that started from scratch—with no examples from any place available for imitation. This civilization progressed mostly due to the accomplishments of the Sumerians, the most influential people in the Tigris-Euphrates region.
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The Huang He (yellow) river stretches across China for more than 2,900 miles. It carries its rich yellow silt all the way from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean.
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Two thousand years ago, the ancient Maya developed one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. They developed a written language of hieroglyphs and invented the mathematical concept of zero
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The first Greek civilization was that of the Minoans on the island of Crete just south of Greece. Quite clearly, the Minoans were heavily influenced by two older Near Eastern civilizations, Mesopotamia and Egypt, by way of the Cycladic Islands, which formed natural stepping stones for the spread of people from Greece and of civilized ideas from the Middle East.
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The people of this Indus Valley civilization did not build massive monuments like their contemporaries, nor did they bury riches among their dead in golden tombs. There were no mummies, no emperors, and no violent wars or bloody battles in their territory.
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Civilization in the Nile River Valley started very early. Some archaeologists say that agriculture, which is necessary for a large settled population, began in the area about 3600 BC. The river provided a long, narrow flood plain.
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he Olmec were the first major civilization in Mexico. They lived in the tropical lowlands on the Gulf of Mexico in the present-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
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The Hundred Years' War between England and France is considered to have started on May 24, 1337 when French King Philipe VI confiscated the English-held Duchy of Guyenn, marking the start of the conflict over English territorial rights in France.
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The Aztecs, also known as the Mexica, were a dominant force in the region, and their empire was the last great native civilization in Mesoamerica before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century.
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After becoming the head of his clan, Genghis Khan made alliances with other clans, destroyed the existing clan nobility, and overpowered enemy tribes such as the Tatars.
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The First Crusade to the Holy Land was a military campaign launched in 1096 by Pope Urban II, aimed at recapturing Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim control, they ended up asking for help from the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos; the crusade ended in the capture of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, marking this moment in European history.
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At the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066, William, duke of Normandy, defeated the forces of Harold II, king of England. William then became King William I of England, which completed the Norman Conquest, which made political, administrative, and social changes in the British Isles.
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Christianity was introduced to Russia in the 9th century by Greek missionaries from the Byzantine Empire. The process of Christianity's acceptance in Russia is considered to have started in 988, when Vladimir I, the prince of Kiev, was baptized.
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Alfred's army defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington, which took place between May 6 and 12, 896. The battle was fought outside the Danish fortress of Chippenham. Alfred's victory was a turning point in the battle for survival of Wessex.
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Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day, December 25th, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, making it the first time the title of Roman Emperor was held in the West since the fall of the Roman Empire; this event is considered the very beginning of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Traces found by archaeologists of early settlements of the Palatine Hill date back to ca 750 BC.
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The Battle of Tours was a battle between North African armies and Frankish forces led by Charles Martel in Gaul in 732 C.E. It was a significant battle in the Early Middle Ages as it separated the various Frankish ethnic groups and prevented the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate
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the start of Islam is generally considered to have occurred in 610 CE, when the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation from the angel Gabriel
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In Islam, Prophet Muhammad was the last prophet and final messenger of God. He was born on the 12th of Rabiu Lawal, the third month of the Muslim calendar. The prophet died on his 63rd birthday.
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Clovis I was a warrior and strong administrator who united the Frankish tribes into a single kingdom. He expanded his kingdom through conquest, marriage, and deception. He also formed his military dominance over the Western Roman Empire at the Battle of Soissons in 486!!
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The period following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. This period was marked by population decline, the rise of feudalism, and the spread of Christianity.
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The invading army reached the outskirts of Rome, which had been left totally undefended. In 410 C.E., the Visigoths, led by Alaric, breached the walls of Rome and sacked the capital of the Roman Empire.
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The Byzantine Empire was a powerful civilization that lasted for over a thousand years, from the split of the Roman Empire in 330 to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
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By the end of the sixth century B.C., India's northwest was integrated into the Persian Achaemenid Empire and became one of its satrapies. This integration marked the beginning of administrative contacts between Central Asia and India.
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The Gupta period marks an important phase in the history of ancient India. The long and efficient rule of the Guptas made a huge impact on the political, social and cultural spheres. Though the Gupta Empire was not as widespread as the Mauryan Empire was in India, yet the Gupta dynasty was successful in creating an empire that is significant in the history of India.
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One of the many factors that contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire was the rise of a new religion, Christianity. The Christian religion, which was monotheistic ran counter to the traditional Roman religion, which was polytheistic (many gods). At different times, the Romans persecuted the Christians because of their beliefs, which were popular among the poor.
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In 306 BC, after Augustus died, Constantine took his role as emperor, Constantine was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity and to normalize its practice. He supported the church financially, bought new copies of the Bible, and helped out in councils of Arles and Nicaea, which helped for many more centuries.
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Fun fact! The modern term vandalism stems from the Vandals who destroyed and sacked Rome. They looted the city and took prisoners, they even invaded Italy and took many valuable pieces of art from both places. The Vandals looted the city's homes, the imperial palace, and the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus!
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The medieval era, often called The Middle Ages or the Dark Ages, began around 476 A.D. following a great loss of power throughout Europe by the Roman Emperor. The Middle Ages span roughly 1,000 years, ending between 1400 and 1450.
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An Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492, credited with opening the Americas to European colonization.
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A Portuguese explorer who established a trade route directly to the Indian spice market
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Married in 1509 and remained married until 1533
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A Portuguese explorer who led the first European voyage to circumnavigate the world, discovering the Strait of Magellan
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Sack of Rome, often seen as the end of the Italian Renaissance
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Married in January 1533 and was crowned Queen of England in June 1533
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Married on May 30, 1536 and was never crowned Queen of England
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Married on January 6, 1540 and annulled in July 1540
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An English admiral who circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580
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The Boxer Rebellion was a violent uprising in China between 1899 and 1901. The rebellion was led by a secret society of Chinese people who believed they could become invulnerable to harm through martial arts. The Boxers' goal was to drive all foreigners out of China
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The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan that took place from 1904–1905. The war was fought over rival expansionist ambitions in Manchuria and Korea
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On June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo, which led to the start of World War I.
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WW1 was tragic and sad- more info is in the tiny slidy thingys
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The French and British armies defeated the Germans in this offensive, which stopped the Germans' plans for a quick victory.
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First Battle of the Marne, (September 6–12, 1914), an offensive during World War I by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) against the advancing Germans who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France and were within 30 miles (48 km) of Paris.
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The Allies landed in the Gallipoli peninsula in April 1915 to break through the Dardanelles Strait.
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The French Army fought off a German offensive that lasted almost a year and resulted in over 600,000 casualties.
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The largest naval battle of World War I, fought from May 31 to June 1, 1916.
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This costly Allied offensive took place from July 1 to November 13, 1916. The first day of the battle became a metaphor for senseless slaughter. :0
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This costly Allied offensive took place from July 1 to November 13, 1916. The first day of the battle became a metaphor for senseless slaughter.
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The British defeated the Germans in this battle from June 7 to 14, 1917.
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The British used tanks for the first time on a large scale in this battle on the Western Front.
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Battle of Mons, engagement fought on the last day of World War I—November 11, 1918—in which Canadian forces captured the Belgian town of Mons, liberating an area that had been under German occupation since 1914.
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Under the terms of the armistice, the German Army was allowed to remain intact and was not forced to admit defeat by surrendering. U.S. General John J. Pershing had misgivings about this, saying it would be better to have the German generals admit defeat so there could be no doubt. The French and British were convinced however that Germany would not be a threat again.
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.
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On July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party. Under Hitler, the Nazi Party grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany as a totalitarian state from 1933 to 1945.
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On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring greet the participants in the parade as they pass beneath the window of Hitler's new office.
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The SA was eventually replaced by Himmler's SS as the concentration camp system expanded to house an ever increasing number of political opponents and Jews, arrested and imprisoned without a trial or any right of appeal. The first camps included; Dachau in southern Germany near Munich, Buchenwald in central Germany near Weimar, and Sachsenhausen near Berlin in the north.
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On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.' If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
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May 10, 1933 - An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute.
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The SA was headed by Ernst Röhm, a battle scarred, aggressive, highly ambitious street brawler who had been with Hitler from the very beginning. Röhm and the SA had been very instrumental in Hitler's rise to power by violently seizing control of the streets and squashing Hitler's political opponents.
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On August 19, about 95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval (90 percent of the vote). Thus Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer of the German nation by direct will of the people. Hitler now wielded absolute power in Germany, beyond that of any previous traditional head of state. He had become, in effect, the law unto himself.
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The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
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The Spanish Civil War erupted on July 17, 1936, when right-wing military officers, led by General Francisco Franco, launched a coup against the democratically elected Republican government, sparking a bloody three-year conflict.
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On November 5, 1937, Adolf Hitler held a secret conference in the Reich Chancellery during which he revealed his plans for the acquisition of Lebensraum, or living space, for the German people at the expense of other nations in Europe.
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A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.
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On March 28, 1939, the victorious Nationalists entered Madrid in triumph, and the Spanish Civil War came to an end.
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Proclamation of September 5, 1939, Proclaiming the Neutrality of the United States in the War Between Germany and France; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
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The British government implemented rationing for food items, including butter, bacon, ham, and sugar, with each person receiving a limited weekly allowance.
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During the London Blitz, a sustained German bombing campaign from September 1940 to May 1941, the city endured intense air raids, resulting in widespread destruction, loss of life, and displacement, with the East End and docks being frequent targets.
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On September 16, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the first peacetime draft in U.S. history, requiring all men between 21 and 36 to register
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The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. This programme of targeted mass murder was a central part of the Nazis’ broader plans to create a new world order based on their ideology.
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On the 22nd of June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. It was the beginning of a campaign that would ultimately decide the Second World War.
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The Government of the United States having violated in the most flagrant manner and in ever-increasing measure all rules of neutrality in favor of the adversaries of Germany and having continually been guilty of the most severe provocations toward Germany ever since the outbreak of the European war, provoked by the British declaration of war against Germany on September 3, 1939, has finally resorted to open military acts of aggression.
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On August 17, 1942, the US Eighth Air Force made its first heavy bomber raid, targeting railroad yards in Rouen-Sotteville, France, while the US Marine Corps conducted the Makin Island raid, a two-day operation in the Gilbert Islands.
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In Teheran, Iran, the first meeting of the 'Big Three.' Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Topics during the four-day conference included: Confirmation of the decision to invade Western Europe in the Spring of 1944; Plans for the invasion of Southern France; and a promise by Stalin to join in the war against Japan when Germany was defeated.
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As Soviet troops entered Berlin and the Battle of Berlin raged on, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945
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Yevgeny Khaldei took the iconic Raising a Flag over the Reichstag photograph, showing Soviet troops raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the German Reichstag building in Berlin. Admiral Dönitz's Flensburg Government was formed, centered in the northern port of Flensburg.
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The majority of the defendants claimed they were unknowing pawns of Adolf Hitler or were simply following orders. Evidence used against the defendants included Nazi propaganda films and extensive Nazi paperwork, also shown were films taken by the Allies after the liberation of extermination camps. Evidence in the courtroom included the shrunken head of a concentration camp inmate and tattooed human skin from concentration camp inmates used to make lampshades and other household articles.