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10,000 BCE
Agriculture was invented
Humans in the near east began to farm instead of hunting and gathering. People developed new technologies such as, pottery, wheeled vehicles, and writing. -
10,000 BCE
First permanent settlements
Since nomadic tribes started to settle down, farmers had time to experiment and farmers experimented with wheat and found out that a sweet, slightly bitter beverage happened, that beverage is now called beer. The first settlements were on the east coast of the Mediterranean. The first settlements were a result of people being able to store wheat for a long period of time. Which made people want to stay in one place permanently. -
9000 BCE
Emergence of Civilization
The emergence of civilization had farming, trade, government, art and science. -
Period: 9000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Neolithic Period
Many important things happened during the neolithic period but mostly it was the period where human technology was developed. -
Period: 9000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Wine was first produced
Archaeological evidence found suggests that wine was first produced during the Neolithic period which was a very important time period. -
3400 BCE
Writing first began to emerge
People started to write down the history of beer and everything else in Sumer. -
870 BCE
King Ashurnasirpal II Feast
King Ashurnasirpal II feast was one of the greatest feasts in history.The feast went on for 10 days. 69,574 people attended this feast. The feast included 1,000 fattened cattle, 1,000 calves, 10,000 sheep, 15,000 lambs,1,000 spring lambs,500 gazelles, 1,000 ducks, 1,000 geese 20,000 doves, 12,000 other small birds, 10,000 fish, 10,000 jerboa and 10,000 eggs. The most impressive part of the feast was not the food but the 10,000 skins of wine, which was a very impressive display of wealth. -
570 BCE
Muhammad was born
Muhammad was a very important person.He was a prophet. Muhammad founded Islam. Although his teachings made him unpopular in Mecca, when he fled to Medina the number of his followers grew and by the time he died Islam had become the dominant faith in most of Arabia -
146 BCE
Rome became the largest power in the Mediterranean
Rome became the largest power in the Mediterranean after the fall of Carthage. After that Romans began making wine. When the best winemakers moved from Greece to Italy and made wine similar to the Greek, Italy became the new center of trade -
4 BCE
Alexander the Great defeated Persia
Alexander the Great united the Greeks and defeated Persia, one of the strong nations. The Greeks thought they were superior and stronger than Asian people. -
Period: 618 to 907
The Tang Dynasty
The Tang dynasty is the period that is regarded as a golden age in Chinese history. During the tang dynasty, China was the largest, wealthiest and most populous empire in the world. Trade thrived along the trade routes of the silk road and by sea with India, Japan and Korea. Chinese sculpture, painting and poetry flourished. Tea spread and became the national beverage during the Tang Dynasty. -
970
Public Library was completed
The public library in Cordoba may have been the most impressive thing there. It had almost half a million books. It was even described as "the jewel of the world". With the help of the public library Cordoba was one of the great centers of learning in the Arab world. Arab scholars made further advances in fields such as astronomy, mathematics, medicine and philosophy. -
1430
The printing press was invented
The printing press was a big help in spreading the knowledge of distillation. -
1492
Christopher Columbus discovered the new world
While Christopher was looking for a westerly passage to the East Indies he found the islands of the Caribbean. Although there was nothing to take back to his royal patrons of Spain he declared that the islands were ideal to grow sugar which made the use of slaves in sugar production expand dramatically -
1557
A trading post on the peninsula of Macao was established
All goods were shipped through the trading post on the tiny peninsula. -
The Mayflower set sail
When the Mayflower set out it was aiming for the Hudson River but went much farther north at Cape Cod. Because of bad weather the ships captain dumped his passengers on the shore.So the pilgrims made a colony. -
The first coffeehouse was opened
Coffee houses were avery important part of history and the first one was opened by Pasqua Rosee. After the first coffee house the idea of coffee houses became very popular. Many important things happened in coffee houses such as the invention of many important machines, ideas and many imporrant conversations happened in coffee houses. -
Principia was published
In the Principia newton wrote about how his principle of universal gravitation could explain the motions of both earthly and cestial bodies. With the Principia newton provided a new foundation for the physical sciences to replace a discredited theories of the Greeks. The Principia is one of the reasons Newton is widely regarded as the greatest scientists in history. -
The first tea garden opened
The first tea garden that opened was Vauxhall Gardens, that had lit walkways, bandstands, performers of all kinds, and stalls selling food and drink. After the first one opened other tea gardens soon followed. The appeal was that they provided an elegant, respectable, public venue and a good place to meet members of the opposite sex. -
The Worlds leading insurance market was established
Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse in London and became a meeting place for ship captains,ship owners and merchants who wanted to hear the latest maritime news and attend auctions of ships.Lloyds became the meeting place for ship owners and the underwriters who insured their ships.Some underwriters began to rent regular booths at Lloyd's and in 1771 a group of 79 of them established the society of lloyds which survives to this day as Lloyds of London the worlds leading insurance market -
The Tea Act
A loan of 1.4 pounds was given to the company from the government to pay off its debts and the company was given the right to ship tea directly from China to America. That meant the company would pay the lower American duty of three pendent per pound. The lower rate of duty would reduce the price of smuggled tea and undermine the smugglers. The overall effect was to reduce the price of tea. -
The outbreak of the revolutionary war
The decades leading up to the revolutionary war contained many unpopular laws such as the stamp act of 1765, the townshend acts of 1767 and the tea act of 1773. The result was the Boston tea party in 1773. During the revolutionary war rum became the preferred drink of American soldiers. The British surrendered in 1781 in the United States of America was established. -
The French revolution was set in motion
At the café de foy, a young lawyer named Camille Desmoulins helped set the french revolution in motion. He leapt on a table and gave a speech about a popular finance ministers dismissal. because of the stationing of a large number of troops from In Paris many threatening Desmoulins audience were quick to embrace his ideas and the audience took up arms in riots that spread throughout Paris rapidly. -
The Enlightenment started to spread
The Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement in which ideas concerning humanity, nature, god and reason were developed during the 1800s. The Enlightenment was a very important movement. -
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The Opium War
The Opium War was a very short war. The European had the superiority of weapons which came to a total surprise to China. In the first fight in July 1839 2 British warships defeated 29 Chinese ships. By the middle of 1842 British troops had seized Hong Kong and several other cities. the Chinese were forced to sign a peace treaty that granted Hong Kong to the British. The war was utterly humiliating for China. -
The Civil War ended
After the Civil War ended the nations railway and telegraph network spread across the country which made the whole country a single market. By 1900 the American economy had overtaken Britain's become the largest on earth. -
Tax was put on patent medicines
Tax was put on patent medicines in which coca-cola fell in category. The company won exemption from the tax because it was repositioned from a drug to a drink. -
3 challenges of the 1930's
During the 1930's there were 3 challenges to the might of Coca-Cola, the end of prohibition, the Great Depression and the rise of Pepsi-Cola. -
The United States was bombed at Pearl Harbor
The United States was bombed at Pearl Harbor by Japan and then the United States joined the World War. -
The Berlin Wall fell
When the Berlin Wall fell it was a sign that communist regimes would collapse across eastern Europe and of the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. East Germans streamed through the cracks in the Berlin Wall.
