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7000 BCE
Nomads Roam Fertile Crescent
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6800 BCE
Jericho Walls Built
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4000 BCE
Start of Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia
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3200 BCE
Cuneiform Created
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3000 BCE
Epic of Gilgamesh
3000-1200 BC -
3000 BCE
Old Kingdom - Egypt
3000-2100 BC -
3000 BCE
King Namar unites Upper & Lower Egypt
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2690 BCE
Huang Di rules China
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2550 BCE
Great Pyramid Built
burial place of Cheops -
2334 BCE
Sargon - King of city-state Kish
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2200 BCE
Peak Minoan Civilization
2200-1450 BC -
2040 BCE
Middle Kingdom - Egypt
2040-1720 BC -
2000 BCE
Harappan Civilization Peak
2000-1750 BC -
2000 BCE
Abraham Alive
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1980 BCE
Amenhemet pharoah
1980-1926 BC -
1861 BCE
American Civil War
1861-1865 AD -
1792 BCE
Hammurabi inherits throne of Babylon
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1766 BCE
T'ang - King of China
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1750 BCE
Leaving Indus Valley
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1750 BCE
Mohenjo-Daro
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1600 BCE
Joseph Alive
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1567 BCE
Ahmose expels Hyksos from Egypt
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1524 BCE
Thutomse I pharaoh of Egypt
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1500 BCE
Aryan people enter India
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1473 BCE
Hatshepsut Pharaoh of Egypt - woman!
female Pharaoh! -
1450 BCE
Mycenaeans in Crete
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1450 BCE
Moses
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1357 BCE
Tutankhamen (King Tut) born
became king around 9 years old! 1357-1339 bc (18 yrs old) -
1353 BCE
Queen Tiye reigns Egypt
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1300 BCE
Spread of Assyrian Empire
1300-1200 BC -
1200 BCE
Olmec Civilization of Mexico
1200-900 BC -
1200 BCE
Phoenician Civ. Peak! & (Greek Dark Ages)
1200-700 BC -
814 BCE
Carthage first settled
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800 BCE
Homer alive
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776 BCE
Greek Olympics
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750 BCE
Greek City States Begin
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745 BCE
Tiglath - Pileser III rules Assyria
745-727 BC -
700 BCE
Earliest Persians
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668 BCE
Ashurbanipal's reign of Assyria
668-627 BC -
605 BCE
Nebudchadnezzar King Babylon
605-561 BC -
563 BCE
Buddha Alive
563-483 BC -
559 BCE
Cyrus the Great rules Medes & Persians
559-525 BC -
551 BCE
Confucius Lives
551-479 BC -
539 BCE
Babylon Falls to Persians
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500 BCE
Peak Aryan Empire in India
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500 BCE
War against Persia by Greece
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500 BCE
Period of warring states in China begins
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490 BCE
First Marathon run - Greece beats Persia
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480 BCE
Battle of Salmis
Greece defeats Persia in large navy battle -
431 BCE
Peloponnesian War begins
431-404 BC -
338 BCE
Macedonia's King Philip defeats Greece city-states
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336 BCE
Alexander the Great rule begins (Macedonia)
336-323 BC -
321 BCE
Mauryan Empire of India begins
321-233 BC -
268 BCE
Asoka rules India (Mauryan done after his death)
268-233 BC -
264 BCE
Punic Wars Begin
264-146 BC (first of several)
Rome vs. Carthage (Carthaginian Wars) -
221 BCE
Shi Huangdi unites China warring states
also called Qin Zheng; started in 230 BC -
218 BCE
Hannibal invades Italy
elephants / Alps -
214 BCE
China Great Wall Begins
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212 BCE
Qin Zheng burns books
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200 BCE
Nazca civilization peak
Peru
large line drawings -
100 BCE
Julius Caesar born
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69 BCE
Cleopatra born
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55 BCE
Caesar attacks Britain
55-54 BC -
53 BCE
Romulus & Remus - Rise of Rome
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44 BCE
Caesar assassinated
The Ides Of March -
27 BCE
Caesar Augustus begins rule of Rome
formerly known as Octavian
joined Counsel in 43 BC -
3 BCE
Jesus born
probable year -
14
Caesar Augustus dies
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52
Attila the Hun dies
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54
Nero rule of Rome begins
54-68 AD -
61
Boadicea rebels against Rome (2 years)
61-63 AD -
70
Temple in Jerusalem destroyed
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258
Yamato Dynasty unites Japan
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286
Diocletian splits Roman empire with Maximian
286-305 Roman Empire Split -
312
Constantine reign begins
312-337 AD -
395
Roman Empire Splits into 2
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410
Visigoths sack Rome
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449
Anglo Saxon invasion of England
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455
Skandagupta rules Gupta Empire of India
455-467 AD -
475
Romulus Augustus rules Western Roman Empire
475-476 AD -
481
Clovis unites the Franks/ Gaul
became a Christian mid-battle -
482
Justinian I rules Byzantine Empire
482-565 AD -
570
Prophet Mohammed Alive
570-632 AD -
581
Yang Chien Unites North and South China
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596
St. Augustine of Canterbury alive
Christianity brought to England -
617
Yangdi killed / Sui dynasty over after 2 generations
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618
Golden Age of China - Li Yuan - Tang Dynasty
began golden age of China - over 300 years -
632
Spread of Islamic Empire
632-661 AD -
715
Tariq / Islam takes over Spain (Moors)
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732
Charles Martel wins battle of Tours against Muslim invaders
the Hammer! -
771
Charlemagne Rules
Charles the Great -
887
Viking Invasion / Normandy
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989
Leif Ericson comes to North America
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1096
First Crusade
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1215
Magna Carta
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1346
bubonic plague / black death
1346-1353 -
1412
Joan of Arc
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1455
War of Roses
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1473
Nicholaus Copernicus
figured out we revolve around the sun, not earth -
Tree in the Trail Cottonwood
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Slavery begins in America
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George Washington
-
start of Shang Dynasty (-1122)
1766-1122 BC -
Abraham Lincoln Born
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David Livingstone born
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Harriet Tubman born
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Gladys Aylward
-
Rosa Parks born
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King Tut's tomb discovered
-
Martin Luther King Jr. born
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Montgomery Civil Rights Bus Boycott
1955-1956 AD -
First Human Orbits Earth
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Civil Rights Act Passed
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First Moon Landing
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2020
George Floyd Died