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Period: 11,000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Agricultural Revolution: Humans Domesticate Plants and Animals:
Humans domesticate animals and gain control of lands to farm and yield resources. Cultivation and trait selection start in Syria and domestication of many plants in Greece. -
4000 BCE
Archives are Recorded
The first archives were created by the Sumerians in the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. These records took of the form of clay tablets with cuneiform characters. The archives were used to support commercial activity and property ownership. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
The First Cities Emerge in Mesopotamia
400 BCE: According to legend, the Sumerians create their first settlement in Mesopotamia at Eridu. 4500 BCE: The Sumerian settlement of Uruk becomes the first city in Mesopotamia and the largest city in the world. -
3500 BCE
Invention of Writing
5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Early pictorial signs were gradually substituted by a complex system of characters representing the sounds of Sumerian and other languages. -
2560 BCE
The Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid of Giza for Pharaoh Khufu
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Period: 1850 BCE to 800 BCE
The Origin and Development of Modern Alphabets
1850 BCE (or 1550 BCE): First evid.ence of the Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite script, which gives rise to the Phoenician alphabet -
1754 BCE
Babylonian King Hammurabi Issues the Code of Hammurabi, One of the Earliest Legal Codes
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560 BCE
The Life of the Buddha and Birth of Buddhism
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45 BCE
The Birth of the Modern Calendar
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1 CE
The Life of Jesus and the Birth of Christianity
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570
The Life of Muhammad and the Birth of Islam
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1088
The First University Is Established, at Bologna
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1320
The Renaissance: A Rediscovery of Classical Knowledge Brings About Innovations and Achievements in Arts and Culture
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1492
Christopher Columbus Arrives in the West Indies and Claims the Land for Spain; European Conquest of the Americas Begins
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The early reform movement: the new educational philosophers
The late 18th and 19th centuries represent a period of great activity in reformulating educational principles, and there was a ferment of new ideas, some of which in time wrought a transformation in school and classroom. -
The Medical Revolution
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, which Proves that Natural Selection is the Mechanism of Biological Evolution
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The Invention of Radio
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The Suffrage Movement: Women Fight For the Right to Vote
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World War I
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Invention of the Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth demonstrates the first electronic television in San Francisco. -
Global Depression Follows Crash of US Stock Market
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World War II
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The Digital Revolution: The Invention of the Digital Electric Computer