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ALphabetic handwriting emerges and makes it possile for people to communicate easily.
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Nomads from the Iranian Plateau arrive in India. This affects the Indian culture by bringing the ideas that helped shape the Hindu religion.
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Romans establish a republic in place of a monarchy. This effects the world by bringing in the first ideas of self government.
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The first emperor of China starts using units of measurements. This started the race for measuring the entire Earth.
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Jesus is baptized, Jesus is considered to be one of the most important characters in Christianity
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Jesus is crucified and is thought to have died for the sin of mankind according to the Bible.
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Nero starts to crucify Christians starting a movement that starts the immigration of Christians to other lands, and thus spreading the religion even further
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The Great Wall of China is began to be built. This is one of the 7 wonders of the world and is ingrained in Chinese culture.
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Buddhism spreads to East Asia. This shows that this religion is becoming a universal religion.
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Africans start to migrate to the New World as slaves. This becomes a part of the culture in the southern areas that rely on slave labor in plantations
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Leonardo Da Vinci starts painting the Mona Lisa. This painting goes on to become one of the most mysterious and beautiful paintings, revered by all.
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The Protestant Reformation begins, signaling the start of one of the largest denominations of Christianity in the world.
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Copernicus states that the Sun is in the center of the solar system.
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PIlgrims land in Cape Cod. The Pilgrims had fled from England due to religous pressure
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Thomas Jefferson becomes president, and this his election from the electoral college was tied
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The United States deals the Louisiana Purchase, which starts the notion of Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion.
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The Monroe Doctrine is declared, so the political power of the USA has now made an oath to protect North or South America.
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The Slavery Abolition Act is passed in England, which signals that a social change is occuring in England, and that blacks are starting to be treated as equals.
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Anasthesia is used for the first time and this shows that the use of medication is becoming widely used and thus lowering the Crude Death Rate.
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John Snow maps the first cholera outbreak in London, this is the first time someone has used data to map information geographically. The result is the end of the cholera outbreak.
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Barbed wire is invented and helps farmers manage their livestock much more effeciently.
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Women in the USA gain suffrage, or the power to vote, and so become more developed.
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 starts the Great Depression created a lot of unemployment
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World War 2 begins, and at the end the winners gain many rewards, which catapult them into MDC status.
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The People's Republic of China is founded, which is built on communist principles.
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The Berlin Wall falls and shows that communism has ended in Germany, and that East and West Germany has finally reconnected.
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The Gulf War starts and it is a response to Iraq's invasion into Kuwait. This shows how the location of key renewable resources, such as oil can show us the patterns of war.
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The USSR splits, but its communist role is taken over by the country of Russia.
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9/11 attacks occur and gives us an insight of how terrorism can affect an entire state. The attacks also act as a centripetal force to bind the country closer together.
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The world's population reaches 7 billion, with many states becoming overpopulated.