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10,000 BCE
The Neolithic Revolution was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.
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7500 BCE
The first abandoned Empire
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5500 BCE
Hindu introduced to India
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5000 BCE
The Sumerians were believed to be the first human civilization
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3500 BCE
Zoroastrianism was founded by Zoroaster
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2630 BCE
The Egyptians built Pyramids
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Period: 2360 BCE to 2611 BCE
The Pyramid of Djoser was built during the third dynasty
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2350 BCE
The Akkaidian Empire contributed the first postal system, and good roadways .
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2334 BCE
Sargon was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire
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2000 BCE
Judaism founded
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Period: 1800 BCE to 1900 BCE
First alphabet created
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1792 BCE
The city began its rise to power when King Hammurabi took the throne.
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1754 BCE
Hammurabi's Code built.
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1750 BCE
Hammurabi's Code put in as a law
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1595 BCE
In 1595 the Kassites conquered Babylon.
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1508 BCE
Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
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1500 BCE
Aryans arrive in India
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Period: 1332 BCE to 1323 BCE
King Tut was the pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
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1279 BCE
Ramses II took the throne of Egypt around 1279 BC.
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1273 BCE
Moses is a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah
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1200 BCE
The Hittities occupied the first Anatolia in the 17th Century.
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1000 BCE
The Phoenicians made the Phoenician alphabet.
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Period: 970 BCE to 1010 BCE
King David was the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah from 1010-970 BCE
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616 BCE
King Nebuchadnezzar took advantage of the fall of the Assyrian Empire to bring the seat of the empire back to Babylon.
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612 BCE
Babylonia once again rose to power as the ruler of the empire over Mesopotamia.
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567 BCE
Siddhartha Guatama was an ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded
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Period: 562 BCE to 605 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar II was a Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC.
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500 BCE
The Persian Empire was the first empire to introduce Trade, Money, and Measures
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Period: 486 BCE to 522 BCE
Darius I was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
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340 BCE
The Assyrians were known for their cruelty when fighting
