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Period: 2700 BCE to 2181 BCE
Old Kingdom
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Period: 2181 BCE to 2140 BCE
First Intermediate Period
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Period: 2060 BCE to 1785 BCE
Middle Kingdom
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE
The Minoans
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1100 BCE
The Mycenaean
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Period: 2000 BCE to 338 BCE
Greece
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Period: 1785 BCE to 1575 BCE
Second Intermediate Period
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Period: 1570 BCE to 1085 BCE
New Kingdom
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Period: 1504 BCE to 1482 BCE
Pharaoh Hatsheput
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Period: 1377 BCE to 1360 BCE
Pharaoh Akhenaten
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Period: 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE
Pharaoh Ramses II
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1250 BCE
The Trojan War
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Period: 1100 BCE to 750 BCE
The Greek Dark Ages
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Period: 1024 BCE to 1000 BCE
King Saul
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Period: 1000 BCE to 961 BCE
King David
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776 BCE
First Olympic Games
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Period: 756 BCE to 265 BCE
Rise of Rome
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Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE
Roman Moncarchy
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721 BCE
Fall of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) to Assyria
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Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE
Babylonian Empire
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Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE
Babylonian Rule
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Period: 605 BCE to 561 BCE
King Nebuchadnezzar
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594 BCE
Solon elected as sole archon
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587 BCE
Fall of the Southern Kingdom (Judah) to Babylon
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587 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem
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Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
Persian Empire
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515 BCE
Jews Rebuild Temple
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490 BCE
Battle of Marathon
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Period: 490 BCE to 479 BCE
Persian Wars
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Period: 479 BCE to 336 BCE
Greek Classical Age
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Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE
Socrates
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458 BCE
Cincinnatus named Emperor of Rome
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Period: 451 BCE to 449 BCE
Twelve Tables written
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Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE
Peloponnesian War
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Period: 400 BCE to 325 BCE
Diogenes advocates Cynicism
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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
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Period: 359 BCE to 336 BCE
Phillip II
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338 BCE
Phillip II conquers Greece
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Period: 337 BCE to 323 BCE
Alexander the Great
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332 BCE
Alexander conqures Egypt
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312 BCE
Zeno founds Stoicism
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306 BCE
Epicurus founds school of philosophy
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300 BCE
Euclid publishes "Elements" on Mathematics
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287 BCE
Tribal Assembly became primary legislative body
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Period: 265 BCE to 133 BCE
Roman Expansion
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Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic War
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263 BCE
Rome rules Italian peninsula
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220 BCE
Archimedes advances engineering
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Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE
Second Punic War
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Period: 166 BCE to 164 BCE
Maccabean Revolt
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Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
Third Punic War
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Period: 148 BCE to 146 BCE
Macedonia and Greece become provinces
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44 BCE
Death of Julius Caesar
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Period: 27 BCE to 180
Pax Romana
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Period: 27 BCE to 14
Reign of Augustus
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4 BCE
Birth of Christ
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Period: 14 to 69
Julio-Claudian Emperors
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29
Crucifixion of Christ
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Period: 69 to 96
Flavian Emperors
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70
Destruction of Temple
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125
Building of Pantheon
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Period: 285 to 305
Diocletian
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Period: 306 to 337
Constantine
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313
Edict of Toleration
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330
Constantinople Becomes Capital of Roman Empire
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Period: 400 to 1000
Byzantine Empire
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Period: 418 to 711
Visigothic Kingdom of Spain
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Period: 440 to 461
Pope Leo I
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476
Fall of Rome
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Period: 485 to 750
Merovingian Dynasty of France
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Period: 492 to 496
Pope Gelasius
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500
Clovis converts to Christianity
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535
Murder of Theodoric's daughter, Amalasuintha
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568
Lombards take over peninsula
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Period: 569 to 475
Pythagoras
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570
Muhammed born in Mecca
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Period: 590 to 604
Pope Gregory the Great
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632
Muhammed dies in Medina
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711
Muslims conquer Spain
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731
Bede writes "Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
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Period: 752 to 987
Carolingian Dynasty
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800
Charlemagne crowed Emperor
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Period: 800 to 950
Viking Invasions
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814
Death of Charlemagne
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Period: 871 to 901
Alfred the Great of England
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886
Danelaw Treaty
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Period: 987 to 1328
Capetian Dynasty
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1060
Norwegians convert to Christianity
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1066
William of Normandy Conquers Britain
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Period: 1066 to 1086
Doomsday book
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Period: 1096 to 1192
Early Crusades
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Period: 1202 to 1270
Late Crusades
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1215
King John signs Magna Carta
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1215
Fourth Lateran Council
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Period: 1225 to 1274
Thomas Aquinas
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Period: 1278 to 1447
Visconti Dynasty in Milan
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Period: 1285 to 1435
Angevin Dynasty in Naples
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1295
Edward I's Model Parliment
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Period: 1300 to 1566
Ottomon Empire
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Period: 1315 to 1322
Famine
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Period: 1328 to
Valois Dynasty in France
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Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Years' War
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1348
Black Death arrives in Europe
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1415
Battle of Agincourt
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1415
Jan Hus executed
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1417
End of Great Schism
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1418
Henry the Navigator begins sponsoring trips to the east
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1431
Joan of Arc Executed
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1434
Medici Takes Control of Florentine oligarchy
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1436
Brunelleschi completes dome of Florence cathedral
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Period: 1446 to 1506
Christopher Columbus
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1450
Sforza Family Takes power
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Period: 1452 to 1519
Leonardo da Vinci
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1455
First Printed Bible
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Period: 1455 to 1485
Wars of the Roses
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1456
Halley's Comet
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Period: 1475 to 1564
Michelangelo
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Period: 1483 to 1546
Martin Luther
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Period: 1485 to
Tudor Dynasty in England
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1488
Bartholomeu Dias rounds southern tip of Africa
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Period: 1492 to 1502
Columbus establishes settlements
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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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1497
John Cabot lands in North America
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Period: 1497 to
English, French, and Dutch Explorations
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1498
Vasco Da Gama successfully finds Indea
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1499
Amerigo Vespucci maps New World
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1500
Long Guns Developed
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1504
Michelangelo sculpts "David"
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1504
Mona Lisa
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Period: 1509 to 1564
John Calvin
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1511
Erasmus, "Praise of Folly"
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1517
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
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Period: 1517 to 1560
Protestant Reformation
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1519
Zwingli's reform in Switzerland
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Period: 1519 to 1521
Magellan's crew circumnavigates globe
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1521
Luther defends himself at Diet of Worms
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1521
Defense of the Seven Sacraments
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1529
Diet of Speier
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1530
Republic Dissolves
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1532
Pizarro conquers Incan Empire
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Period: 1532 to
African slave trade
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1533
Conversion of Calvin
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Period: 1533 to
Ivan IV the Terrible, Russia
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1534
Jacques Cartier explores Canada
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Catholic Reform
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Period: 1550 to
Golden Age of Piracy
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Period: 1553 to 1558
"Bloody Mary" rules
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Period: 1560 to
Peak of Witchcraft Trials
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Period: 1562 to
French Wars of Religion
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Period: to
Bourbon Dynasty of France
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Period: to
Henry IV, France
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Period: to
Stuart Dynasty in England
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Jamestown colony founded
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Period: to
Romanov Dynasty in Russia
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Period: to
30 years' war in Germany
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Plymouth colony established
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Period: to
Civil War in England
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Period: to
Commonwealth in England
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Siege of Vienna by Ottoman forces
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Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France
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Treaty of Nystad