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3500 BCE
The Sumerians and Babylonians develop calculations
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2300 BCE
The Building of the Great Pyramids
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Period: 1750 BCE to 1111 BCE
Shang Dynasty
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1100 BCE
The First Alphabets
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Period: 580 BCE to 500 BCE
Pythagoras
Math dude who didn't understand irrational numbers -
Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Confucius
taught obedience and respect
has a ton of bomb.com quotes
Invented chopsticks -
529 BCE
Mesopotamia is conquered by Persians
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Period: 525 BCE to 465 BCE
Aeschylus
Inventor of drama -
Period: 496 BCE to 406 BCE
Sophocles
Developed tragic drama -
Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE
Pericles
Began moving funeral ceremonies -
490 BCE
Persia gets defeated by Greece
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Period: 486 BCE to 465 BCE
Xerxes' rule
May have been Darius II -
Period: 484 BCE to 406 BCE
Euripedes
Wrote tragic plays -
Period: 484 BCE to 421 BCE
Herodotus
Traveler -
Period: 480 BCE to 404 BCE
Thucydides
Biographer -
Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE
Socrates
One of the greatest philosophers ever
Made people uncomfortable by asking thought-provoking questions which lead to his execution. -
Period: 463 BCE to 483 BCE
Siddhartha Guatama
Founder of Buddhism - also known as the Enlightened one -
Period: 427 BCE to 347 BCE
Plato
Philosopher
Socrates' student
Aristotle's teacher -
387 BCE
Plato founds the Academy
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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
Student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great. Great philosopher, father of logic and thinking -
Period: 341 BCE to 270 BCE
Epicurus
Greek philosopher -
336 BCE
Alexander the Great takes the throne in Macedonia
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335 BCE
Aristotle Opens the Lyceum
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Period: 335 BCE to 263 BCE
Zeno the Stoic
Greek philosopher -
Period: 335 BCE to 323 BCE
Alexander the Great
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325 BCE
First Indian Empire
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325 BCE
The First Indian Empire
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300 BCE
Euclid compiled his Elements of Geometry
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Period: 265 BCE to 235 BCE
The Rule of Asoka
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Period: 234 BCE to 149 BCE
Cato the Censor
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Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Reign of of Shih Huang-ti
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Period: 108 BCE to 62 BCE
Catiline
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Period: 106 BCE to 43 BCE
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman consul -
Period: 106 BCE to 48 BCE
Pompey
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Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE
Julius Caesar
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Period: 95 BCE to 51 BCE
T. Lucretius Carus
Poet -
Period: 85 BCE to 42 BCE
Brutus
"et tu, Brute" -
Period: 82 BCE to 30 BCE
Marcus Antony
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Period: 63 BCE to 14
Augustus
First Roman emperor
Caesar's nephew -
Period: 42 BCE to 37 BCE
Tiberius
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30 BCE
Roman Conquest
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Period: 30 BCE to 14
Augustus' Reign
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30
Good Friday
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Period: 37 to 68
Nero
Psychotic Violinist -
Period: 97 to 117
The reign of Emperor Trajan
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Period: 121 to 180
Marcus Aurelius
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Period: 517 to 565
The Rule of Justinian the Great
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Period: 570 to 632
Muhammad
founder of Islam -
610
Muhammad received his first direct message from Allah
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Period: 1270 to 1317
Giotto
Born in Florence, Italy
Realism Painter
Renaissance Period -
1492
Christopher Columbus sails to the Caribbean
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Period: to
John Locke
Scottish reformer -
Period: to
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher -
Period: to
Edward Gibbon
Author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -
Period: to
G. W. F. Hegel
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Period: to
Charles Darwin
English scientist who furthered the study and deductions of evolution by experimenting on animals on Galapagos Island. Grandson of Erasmus Darwin, another founding evolutionist -
Period: to
Karl Marx
Philosopher and communist from Trier, Germany. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel -
Period: to
Oswald Spengler
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the US to join the Allies in World War II -
Terrorist attack on World Trade Center
The world trade center in New York City was destroyed by Muslim fundamentalist, beginning America's war on terrorism
