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In Ancient Egypt they developed, water moving tools, stone-built pyramids, and human preservation (mummification).
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The Sumerians developed bronze out of copper and tin, they developed a 12-month calendar and they developed the wagon wheel.
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The Indo-Europeans tamed and herded animals such as goats, horses and sheep. Indo-Europeans spoke different dialects of their language and that language descended to modern languages we know today. For example Proto-Germanic descended into many Germanic languages such as English, Norwegian, German, and Dutch. -
Hammurabi's greatest achievement was the law code he had created.
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Moses pledged to reject all other gods except for the one true God. He also laid out the Ten Commandments for all Israelites to follow. -
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The Phoenicians new idea in writing is to only use consonants to make reading easy to learn for all merchants to use.
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The Hittites were the first in the Middle East to use iron. They made weapons, tools and transportation from iron. The Assyrians were the first in the Middle East to create roads. The Persians used these roads and expanded upon them to help unite the Middle East under one power and many provinces. -
The government that the patriarchs set up, the rights that the plebeians got and the twelve tables of law all were great advances in the Roman Republic.
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Three important things that were created in the Hellenic period were the ideas, the governments and the academics. The concept to fight for honor or your country seemed unheard of but Greece made it a common belief. The idea of a democracy or even an aristocracy didn't exist before the Greek city-states. The Greeks developed sciences, mathematics and art, and became one of the most advanced civilizations.
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The language, economics, mathematics, art, philosophy, government and science from the Hellenic and the Hellenistic Ages are very important to us today.
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In the Classical Era, tragedies, the Olympic Games, and philosophy were all new ideas.
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The widespread Greek culture and unity of cities was very important and the new art was important to conveying the emotions of the time.
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Marius was the first military leader to come to power in Rome and he brought about the idea of making the poor jobless people in to great soldiers. These soldiers would pledge their allegiance to Marius as opposed to Rome because he was paying them and giving them land. This meant that no matter what his standing with Rome was, he would always have his power.
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Two things that contributed to the Republic going into crisis are the growing social discontent from the poor or new incoming people and the feuding among the wealthiest families in Rome. -
Julius Caesar helped to reform Rome, giving jobs to the poor and ordering slave-owning land owners to hire free laborers. He also contributed the calendar that we know today.
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The architecture and structures that the Romans developed is very important, The Roman education is important because it was the took Mediterranean knowledge and continued to teach and improve upon it and the economy is very important in understanding world trade.
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The Byzantine Empire compiled a code of laws known as the Justinian Code. They also had very distinguishable architecture that they created that included a dome roof over a flat roofed building.
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Three things that contributed to the Fall of Rome was the disarray of the internal government, bad rulers, and attackers coming in from outside.
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During the Middle Ages there were many advancements. In agriculture, the oxen were switched with horses and the plows were able to dig deeper into the ground. In guilds, the workers of a specific profession was able to get certain rights and the quality of the goods was ensured because of the guild. A guild also gave standardized pricing for every product.
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In trade and commerce, there were better roads that were built and they established oceanic trade routes along the coast of Europe. In money economy, exchange rates for different currencies were created and banks were set up. In other technology they made great advances in architecture by creating the Gothic style. The Gothic style had larger more empty buildings.
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Important results of the crusades were greater power to kings and more Western European and Eastern European commerce.
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Two important aspects of the Renaissance were the improvements upon art and the mixture of classical art with cultural art, and the improvements in education and the focus on humanities.
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The Reformation had good adjustments of the corrupted Roman Catholicism and it gave the people the ability to believe in Christianity how they wanted.
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Three important inventors in the Industrial Revolution were Michael Faraday, the inventor of the electric generator, James Hargreaves, the inventor of the spinning jenny, and Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
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Two important things from the American Revolution was the Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Lexington and Concord which gave all the colonists hope and courage.
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Figured out and proved atomic theory.
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The three estates were the First Estate, the clergymen; the priests, the abbots, the bishops, the Second Estate, the noblemen, and the Third Estate, the bourgeoisie and the peasants. -
William Wilberforce was a politician who was trying to abolish slave trade in Parliament.
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Showed realism through his stories he wrote about France in the 1800s. His stories portrayed greed and stupidity in many people.
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He worked to improve worker conditions in mills and factories and help improve child labor.
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Did research in genetics and figured out that genes exist.
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Henri displayed Postimpressionism in his paintings of the nightlife in Paris and his use of bright colors.
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Imperialism was spread through political rivalries, desire for new markets and to spread religion.
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Some causes of World War 1 were two different alliances of major powers in Europe, fear of other countries, and the use of ultimatums to work with other countries. -
Three important events during World War 1 were the ultimatum Austria-Hungary gave to Serbia, the German invasion of Belgium and the breaking of the "Sussex pledge". -
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Japan began to fight for different eastern cities in China in order to secure the ports and spread their rule throughout the East Indies. -
The unification of many countries during the time of World War 2 helped unite many people and promoted nationalism. Dunkirk proved to be a very important port and battle site for the war, effecting the outcome of the war itself. People realized the issues with Fascism. The war ended in the creation of the atomic bomb. Technology during the war was greatly advanced such as ships and weaponry.
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