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This is about 8000 B.C.E. where we start to see humans going from hunter gathers to agriculture and pastoralism. Agriculture grew first in Egypt, Mesopatamia, and Indus Valley later in centeral America
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Around 4000 B.C.E. Civilizations like Egypt, Mesopatamia and Indus started to use metal tools like bronze.
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3500 B.C.E. - 2600 B.C.E. it was about when Urban Centers emerged in Mesopotamia creating advanced social structure and cuneiform writing
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Between 3200 - 1300 B.C.E. is when all of Eygpt became united under the control of one Pharaoh. Also the Indus river cities began to grow
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The first major irrigation project was created under King Menes during Egypt's First Dynasty. He and his successors used dams and canals (one measuring 20 km) to use the diverted flood waters of the Nile into a new lake called lake "Moeris."
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was an ancient code that was made by Hammurabi a Babylonian code to keep order. Was fair but very cruel code.
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This was very important for recording history and reading what happened around this time is the only way to know what exists or not
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This a huge advancement in tools as they started to use iron weapons that were more durable than bronze. They could build stronger and longer lasting weapons, armor, and tools
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Conquered Mesopotamia and much of the Near East and spread its language, such as Aramaic, and culture throughout its empire
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This is where period one breaks to 2
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These were new rising religions in China that conflict with each other very much
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Empire collapsed
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Cao Cao's efforts to completely reunite the Han empire were rebuffed at the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 / 209, when his armies were defeated by the allied forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei
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In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more
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start of the third period and end of second
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At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe
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The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont
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Estimates vary, but the Black Death may have killed one-half of Europe's population, and about 100 million people worldwid
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took about half of Europe's population away
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end of period 3 and start of 4
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First interaction with the Americas on record
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Slave trade boomed around this time but American slaves weren't as used
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This was and enormous change in all as the industrial revolution marks the new period
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This is the period we are in
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