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7500 BCE
The Middle East (Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia and Asia Minor)
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Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE
The Bronze Age
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Period: 3100 BCE to 332 BCE
Ancient Egypt
In Ancient Egypt they developed, water moving tools, stone-built pyramids, and human preservation (mummification). -
Period: 3100 BCE to 2004 BCE
Sumerian Culture
The Sumerians developed bronze out of copper and tin, they developed a 12-month calendar and they developed the wagon wheel. -
2500 BCE
Indo-Europeans
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. -
Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE
Hammurabi's Rule
Hammurabi's greatest achievement was the law code he had created. -
1200 BCE
Moses' Major Ideas
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. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 550 BCE
The Iron Age
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1000 BCE
Phoenicians New Writing
The Phoenicians new idea in writing is to only use consonants to make reading easy to learn for all merchants to use. -
800 BCE
Empire Builders
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. -
Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
The Roman Republic
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. -
Period: 507 BCE to 323 BCE
Hellenic Period
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. -
Period: 507 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenic and Hellenistic Ages
The language, economics, mathematics, art, philosophy, government and science from the Hellenic and the Hellenistic Ages are very important to us today. -
400 BCE
The Classical Era in Greece
In the Classical Era, tragedies, the Olympic Games, and philosophy were all new ideas. -
Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic Period
The widespread Greek culture and unity of cities was very important and the new art was important to conveying the emotions of the time. -
Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
The Punic Wars
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Period: 157 BCE to 86 BCE
Marius
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. -
134 BCE
The Republic in Crisis
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. -
Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE
Julius Caesar
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. -
Period: 27 BCE to 180
Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
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. -
Period: 375 to 476
Start of Germanic Invasions to End of Rome
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395
Roman Empire Split
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Period: 395 to 1453
Byzantine Empire
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. -
400
Feudalism Begins
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409
Romans Abandoned Britain
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Period: 460 to 560
Barbarian Invasions (Germanic and Huns)
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476
Fall of Rome
Three things that contributed to the Fall of Rome was the disarray of the internal government, bad rulers, and attackers coming in from outside. -
Period: 476 to 1450
The Middle Ages
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. -
Period: 476 to 1450
The Middle Ages (Extra Data)
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. -
571
Birth of Muhammad
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Period: 624 to 627
Historical Jihads
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750
Islamic Conquests by 750 A.D.
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Period: 768 to 814
The Time of Charlemagne and the Creation of the Christian Roman Empire
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Period: 800 to 1020
The Viking Invasions
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900
Nobles and Local Officials of Europe Took Over Local Defense
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Period: 962 to
The Holy Roman Empire
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Period: 1096 to 1300
The Crusades
Important results of the crusades were greater power to kings and more Western European and Eastern European commerce. -
1211
Genghis Khan's Invasions
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Period: 1220 to 1295
The Middle Class Emerges
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
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. -
1453
Slavs Take Over Eastern Orthodoxy Religion
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1500
Mercantilism Begins
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Period: 1517 to 1555
The Reformation
The Reformation had good adjustments of the corrupted Roman Catholicism and it gave the people the ability to believe in Christianity how they wanted. -
Holy Roman Empire Map
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The Industrial Revolution
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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The American Revolution
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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John Dalton
Figured out and proved atomic theory. -
The Start of the French Revolution
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. -
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William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce was a politician who was trying to abolish slave trade in Parliament. -
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Honoré de Balzac
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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Napoleon Controls France
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The End of the French Revolution
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Lord Shaftesbury
He worked to improve worker conditions in mills and factories and help improve child labor. -
Beginnings of Nationalism
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Gregor Mendel
Did research in genetics and figured out that genes exist. -
The Beginnings of Socialism
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Henri displayed Postimpressionism in his paintings of the nightlife in Paris and his use of bright colors. -
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Imperialism
Imperialism was spread through political rivalries, desire for new markets and to spread religion. -
Start of World War 1
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. -
End of World War 1
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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Mussolini, Hitler and Franco Come to Power
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Japan attacks China
Japan began to fight for different eastern cities in China in order to secure the ports and spread their rule throughout the East Indies. -
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World War 2
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. -
United Nations Established (San Fransico, California)
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The Communists Proclaimed the People's Republic of China with Beijing as the Capital
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Nationalists Make Taipei the New Capital of the Republic of China
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American Occupation of Japan Ended
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Truce Between North and South Korea
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United States and People's Republic of China Establish Diplomatic Ties
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European Union
