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They are grains capable of growing in dry conditions that are very high in nutrients. Spread across the Indian Ocean in migration.
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Iron metallurgy is known in Western Asia, Southeastern Europe, and North Africa.
Aryan people begin to settle in India.
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Sugar Cane reached India and became known as a luxury for cooking and sweetening. Over the next few centuries sugar spread widely amongst conquest and migration.
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King Shalamaneser lll rules Assyria
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Black limestone pillar by King Shalamaneser that is engraved with stories of military campaigns.
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Rise of the Nubian Kingdom at a Napata. Nubia dominates Egypt from 712-660 BCE.
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Zhou kingdom ends in China
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Pharaoh Necho II ruled Egypt
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Pharaoh Necho of Egypt created a canal that connected the Nile River to the Red Sea, improving trade with the Indian Ocean.
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Iron metallurgy in known in China.
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Beginning of Buddhism as a religion.
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Life of Confucius in China. Beginning of Confucianism.
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Darius I rules the Persian Empire
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The Roman Republic begins.
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Developed in Northern Arabia was the camel saddle.
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Athenian Empire in Greece, and the Age of Pericles from the end of the Persian Wars in 448 BCE to the death of Pericles 329 BCE. Trial and death of Socrates in 399 BCE
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Hanno explores the West African Coast
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A writing system developed by the Phoenicians was later passed onto the Greeks.
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Kingdom of Meroe in Numbia
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Alexander the Great was born in Macedonia.
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Alexander the Great became King of Ancient Greek
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Alexander the Great conquers West Asia and begins the Hellenistic period.
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Alexandria was founded by the Macedonian conquerer. Remained the capital of Egypt and was the center for international trade due to its ideal location along both the Mediterranean Sea and the Nile River.
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Alexander the Great dies from a fever.
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Ptolemaic kings rule Egypt
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Egyptian port city located on the Red Sea that was a major center of international trade . It was used for importing African elephants from Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The city exchanged goods like cloth, pottery, beads, wood, and bamboo with India.
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Sassanid Empire rules in Persia until the defeat of Chosroes by the Arab Muslims
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Han Dynasty Rules in China
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Court officials kept Cloves in their mouth when talking to the King to ensure their breath was sweet. Highly desired, cloves were traded along routes from China and Europe
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A group of texts that comes from a series of rulers known as the Han Dynsasty. The texts discuss trade with Iran and the South Seas. It talks about the voyages, goods exchanged, the recruitment of sailors, and the dangers of sea travel.
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Brightly colored bowl made for funerals or rituals in a faience workshop.
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Zhang Qian traveled and shared his discoveries. They later names the path he took the Silk Road.
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Ideal trade were pearls since they took up little space and could be used for jewelry or decoration. They were even sometimes crushed up for medicine.
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Funan dominated Indochina and the Isthmus of Kra in Southeast Asia
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Apostle Paul spread Christianity around the Mediterranean.
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Caesar Augustus rules the Roman Empire
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Birth of Jesus in Nazareth. Beginning of Christianity.
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A geographer born in Greece who traveled to study the scholarships. he created maps that gives present day researchers an idea of what the people in the Mediterranean thought of land beyond theirs.
