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250
2.5 million bce
- Emergence of Homo sapiens in eastern Africa
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270
1.25 million b.c.e
- Emergence of homo erectus, an upright, tool-using human 600,000 Wide spread of human species across Asia, Europe, Africa; control of fire
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305
1200 b.c.e.
- 1200-700 Sacred Vedas composed
- 1000-600 Epic Age: Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Upanishads composed
- 1200-700 Sacred Vedas composed
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310
10,000 b.c.e.
- Domestication of sheep, pigs, goats, cattle. Neolithic Age; development of farming in Middle East
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330
8000 b.c.e.
- First town at Jericho
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340
6000 b.c.e
- Beans domesticated in Western Hemisphere
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360
5000 b.c.e
- Domestication of maize (corn)
- Yangshoa culture in north China
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360
5000 b.c.e.
- 5000 Early Japanese Settlement
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400
2000 b.c.e.
- 1850 Origins of Shang kingdom in China.
- 1800 Formation of Babylonian Empire in Middle East.
- 1700-1300 Rise of village culture in Mesoamerica.
- 1600 Beginning of Indo-European invasions of India and parts of the Mediterranean and Middle East. 1600 Spread of civilization to Crete (Minoan) 1250 Moses and Jewish exodus from Egypt (according to Jewish beliefs)
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400
2000 b.c.e.
- 1700 Indo European invasions of Greek peninsula
- 1400 Kingdom of Mycenae; Trojan War
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407
1200 b.c.e.
- 1029-258 Zhou dynasty; introduction of a standard spoken language
- 551-478 Life of Confucius
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410
1000 b.c.e.
- 2000 Germans settle in Denmark
- 1200-700 Vedas composed
- 1500-500 Polynesian migrations
- 1122-770 Initial Zhou kingdom
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410
1000 b.c.e.
- 1000 Germans expand southward
- 900 Maya begins
- 850-250 Chavin culture (Andes)
- 800 Rise of Greek city-states
- 800 b.c.e.-1000 c.e. Bantu migration, sub-Saharan Africa 770-403 Later Zhou kingdom; beginning of China's classical period
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410
1000 b.c.e.
- 800-600 Rise of Greek city-states; Athens and Sparta become dominant
- c.700 Homerian epics Illiad, Odyssey; flowering of Greek archicture
- 550 Cyrus the Great forms Persian Empire
- 509 Beginnings of Roman Republic
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410
1000 b.c.e.
- c. 1000Polynesians reach Fiji, Samoa
- 1000 Independent kingdom of Kush
- 800-400 Spread of Olmec civilization: cultivation of maize (corn), potatoes; domestication of turkeys, dogs
- c. 300 Rise of Axum
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420
750 b.c.e
- 750-600 Meroe (Kush) rules Egypt
- 600 Zoroastrian religion in Iran
- 600 Legendary ruler in Japan
- 551-c. 233 Periods of the great chinese philosophers; Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Legalists 550 Formation of Persian Empire C. 542-483 Buddha
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420
750 b.c.e.
- 700-c. 550 Era of unrivaled brahman dominance
- 564-483 Life of the Buddha
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430
500 b.c.e.
- 500-449 Greek wars with Persian; Persia defeated
- 500-450 Beginning of Roman republic
- 470-430 Hieght of Athenian culture; Socrates and Greek philisophical style.
- 431 ff. Peloponnesian Wars; decline of Greece
- 330 Alexander the Great 327-325 Alexander's invasion 322-185 Mauryan Empire 300-100 Hellenistic Period 300 b.c.e.-900 c.e. Hieght of Maya 264-140 Roman expansion in North Africa (Punic wars) and eastern Mediterranean
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430
500 b.c.e.
- c. 500 Laoi and Daoism
- c. 500 Editing of five classics
- c. 450 Development of Chinese calender
- 402-201 Era of the Warring States
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430
500 b.c.e.
- 327-325 Alexander the Great invades India
- 322-298 Changdragupta Maurya rules
- 269-232 Reign of Ashoka
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430
500 b.c.e.
- 470-430 Athens at its hight: Pericles, Phidias, Sophocles, Socrates
- 450 Twelve Tables of Law
- 431-404 Peloponnesian Wars
- 359-339 Philip II of Macedonia
- 338-323 Macedonian Empire, Alexander the Great
- 300-100 Hellenistic period
- 264-146 Punic Wars
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440
250 b.c.e.
- 221 Shi Huangdi proclaimed first emperor of China
- 202 b.c.e.-9 c.e. Initial Han dynasty; key technical developments of horse collar and water mill
- 200 b.c.e.-200 c.e. Greater Buddhist influence
- 133 ff. Decline of Roman republic
- 100 Germans begin contacts with Rome; Slavs migrate into eastern Europe
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440
250 b.c.e.
- 200 b.c.e.-200 c.e. Period of greatest Buddhist influence
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440
250 b.c.e.
- 49 Julius Caesar becomes dictator in Rome; assassinated in 44
- 27 Augustus Caesar seizes power; rise of Roman Empire
- c. 4 Birth of Jesus
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460
1 c.e.
- 23-220 Later Hans dynasty; invntion of paper and compass
- 27 Augustus founds Roman Empire
- 30 Crucifion of Jesus
- 88 Beginning of Hans decline.
- 106 Hieght of Roman territory
- 180 Beginning of decline of Rome
- 200-500 Nasca culture (Andes)
- 200-1300 Aasazi in North America
- 220 Last Han emperor deposed
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460
1 c.e.
- 319 Gupta Empire founded; one of the world's first universities established
- 535 Gupta Empire overturned by the Huns
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460
1 c.e.
- c. 30 Crucifixion of Jesus
- 63 Forced dissolution of independent Jewish state by Romans
- Greatest spread of Roman territory
- 180 Death of Marcus Aurelius; beginning of decline of Roman Empire
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460
1 c.e.
- c. 30 Crucifixion of Jesus
- c. 100 Root crops introduced to southern Afria through trade
- 100 Beginning of decline of Hans Dynasty
- 180 Rome begins to decline
- c. 200 Extensive agriculture practiced in Japan
- 227 Beginning of Sassbud Empire in Persia
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470
250 c.e.
- 300 Decline of Meroe
- 300 Spread of Buddhism
- 300-400 Yamato claim imperial control of Japan
- 300-700 Rise of Axum; conversion to Christianity
- 300-900 Intermediate Horizon period (Andes)
- 300-1000 Second wave of Polynesian migrations to Hawaii
- 312-337 Constantine; formation of Eastern Empire; adoption of Christianity.
- 319-540 Gupta Empire
- 400 Chinese script imported
- 401 ff. Large-scale Germanic invasions in Roman Empire
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470
250 c.e.
- 221-202 Qin dynasty; the First Emperor, the Great Wall begun, a single basic language
- 202 b.c.e.-220 c.e. Han dynasty
- c. 200 Introduction of ox-drawn plow, horse collar, water mill
- 141-87 Reign of Han Wu Ti, Increased bureaucracy, spread of Confucianism
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470
250 c.e.
- 313 Constantine adopts Christianity
- 476 Fall of Rome
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470
250 c.e.
- 284-305 Reign of Diocletian
- c. 300 Ethiopia adopts Christianity
- c. 312-337 Reign of Constantine
- 370-480 Nomadic invasion of western Europe
- c. 400 Growth of Mayan civilization
- c. 400 polynesians reach Hawaii
- 450 Huns begin to invade India
- 476 Collapse of Rome
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150,000 b.c.e
- Homo sapiens sapiens, which displaces other human species
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30,000 b.c.e.
- Passage of first people to Americas 15,000-12,000 Domesticated dogs
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4000 b.c.e.
- Development of writing, bronze metal working, wheel, plow in Middle East
- 3100-1800 Sumerians civilization
- 3100-1087 Founding and flowering of Egyptian civilization
- 2500-1500 Indus civilization in south Asia
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500 c.e.
- 451 First Han invasion
- 476 Last Roman empror in West
- 527-565 Justinian Eastern emperor
- 580 ff. Spread of Buddhism in Japan
- 586-618 Sui dynasty
- 600-647 Harsha's Empire
- 618 Tang dynasty
- 700 ff. Spread of Islam; trans-Sahara trade in Africa
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750 c.e.
- 800-1300 Mississippian culture
- 900 Polynesians to New Zealand
- 900-1200 Toltecs
- 1000 Hieght of the kingdom of Ghana, Africa
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1600 b.c.e.
- Aryan invasion of India
- 1500-100 Vedic Age
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500 c.e.
- c. 500 Buddhism takes root in east and southeast Asia
- c. Formation of Ghana
- c. 600 Beginning of Islam
- 618 Tang dynasty in China: glourious culture period
- 700 Shintoism unified into single national religion in Japan
