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300
Camels first brought to Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan civilization began
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476
Rome falls
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500
Byzantine Empire begins
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500
Ghana Empire begins
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552
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
Seventeen Article Constitution began
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad becomes a prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
First official edition of the Qur’an is written
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Jan 1, 700
Traders bring Islam to West Africa
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Jan 1, 710
Nara became the capital of Japan
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Jan 1, 750
Bookmaking begins to spread the Qur’an
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Jan 1, 1000
Feudalism begins
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Jan 1, 1000
Tale of Genji, world's first novel, was writteen
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Jan 1, 1050
Movable type invented in China
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Jan 1, 1054
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches split
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Jan 1, 1065
Song Dynasty began civil service exams
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Jan 1, 1085
Reconquista begins with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The First Crusade begins
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Jan 1, 1146
Second Crusade begins
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Jan 1, 1185
Heian period ended
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Jan 1, 1189
Third Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1192
First shogun came to power
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Jan 1, 1192
Era of Samurai Began
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Jan 1, 1200
Incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jan 1, 1203
Ghana Empire ends
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Jun 1, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
Mali Empire Begins
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Jan 1, 1250
Aztecs arrived in Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
Mongols destroy Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
Mongol Dynasty begins
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Jan 1, 1300
Mongol empire is weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
Humanism began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa was the first Islamic leader
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs started building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years’ War begins
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Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic Plague begins in Europe
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu becomes center of Arabic learning
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Jan 1, 1368
Ming Dynasty begins
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Jan 1, 1368
Mongol Dynasty ends
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Jan 1, 1400
Inquisition takes place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He made his first voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johaness Gutenberg invents printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
Byzantine Empire ends
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years’ War ends
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Jan 1, 1460
Songhai Empire Begins
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Jan 1, 1469
Medici family began to rule Florence
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa
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Jan 1, 1492
The Spanish conquer Granada
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Columbus to find sea route to Asia
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama began to sail to India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot landed in Canda
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Jan 1, 1500
Microscope invented
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Jan 1, 1500
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil
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Jan 1, 1504
Michelangelo completes his statue of David
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus stated that Earth revolves around Sun
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posted Ninety-Five Theses
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Jan 1, 1519
Aztec empire ended
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1520
Hernan Cortes destroyed Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano landed in North America
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Jan 1, 1525
William Tyndale translates Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
Inca empire ended
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Jan 1, 1533
Francisco Pizarro destroyed Incas
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Jan 1, 1534
King Henry VIII creates Anglicanism
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Jan 1, 1541
John Calvin Creates Calvinism
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe
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Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent formed
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Songhai Empire Ends
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Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage
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Galileo decided to build a telescope
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Mali Empire Ends
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Thirty Years' War begins
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Ming Dynasty ends
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Peace of Westphalia signed
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Thirty Years' War ends
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Newton published book about gravity
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Newton published book about gravity
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Era of samurai ends
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Tang Dynasty begins
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Tang Dynasty ends
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Tang Dynasty recorded a formula for gunpowder
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Buddhism religion expanded in the Tang Dynasty
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Japanese invent kana
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Heian-kyo became the capital of Japan
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Heian period begins
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Charlemagne’s Christian Empire ended
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Charlemagne’s Christian Empire begins