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Period: 3000 BCE to 476
Ancient Times
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753 BCE
Rome was founded
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Period: 753 BCE to 476
Acient Times
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Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE
Monarchy
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Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
Republic
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44 BCE
Death of Julius Caesar
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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Empire
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1 CE
Birth of Jesus Christ
The event that shows the beginig of AD/CE -
79
The city of Pompeii is destroy
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285
Division of the Roman Empire
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476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Period: 476 to 1453
Middle Ages
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Period: 1095 to 1099
The First Crusade
The First Crusade was the most successful. Armies from Europe drove out the Turks and took control of Jerusalem. -
Period: 1147 to 1149
The Second Crusade
In 1146 the city of Edessa was conquered by the Turks. The entire population was killed or sold into slavery. Then a second Crusade was launched, but was unsuccessful. -
Period: 1187 to 1192
The Third Crusade
In 1187 Saladin, the sultan of Egypt, recaptured the city of Jerusalem from the Christians. A third Crusade was launched led by Emperor Barbarossa of Germany, King Philip Augustus of France, and King Richard the Lionheart of England. Richard the Lionheart fought Saladin for several years. In the end he could not conquer Jerusalem, but he did win the right for pilgrims to visit the holy city once again. -
Period: 1202 to 1204
The Forth Crusade
The Fourth Crusade was formed by Pope Innocent III with the hope of taking back the Holy Land. However, the Crusaders got sidetracked and greedy and ended up conquering and plundering Constantinople instead. -
Period: 1212 to 1212
Children's Crusade
Started by a French child named Stephen of Cloyes and a German kid named Nicholas, tens of thousands of children gathered to march to the Holy Land. This ended in total disaster. None of the children made it to the Holy Land and many were never seen again. They were likely sold into slavery. -
Period: 1217 to 1272
Crusades Five through Nine
Over the next several years there would be 5 more Crusades. None of them would be very successful in terms of gaining control of the Holy Land. -
1453
Fall of the Byzantine Empire