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300
Camels were first brought to the Sahara
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300
Classic Mayan Civilization Began
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476
The Fall of Rome
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500
The Byzantine Empire begins
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500
The Ghana empire began
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552
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
The Seventeen Article Constitution began
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad became a prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
The first official edition of the Qur’an was written
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Jan 1, 700
Traders brought 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 began to spread the Qur’an
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Jan 1, 1000
Feudalism begins
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Jan 1, 1000
The Tale of Genji, the first novel, was written
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Jan 1, 1050
Moveable type was 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
The Reconquista began with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The First Crusade Began
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade began
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Jan 1, 1185
The Heian period ended
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Jan 1, 1189
The Third Crusade began
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Jan 1, 1192
The Era of the Samurai began
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Jan 1, 1192
The first shogun came to power
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Jan 1, 1200
The Incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jan 1, 1203
The Ghana empire ended
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Jun 1, 1215
Signing of The Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
The Mali empire began
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Jan 1, 1250
Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols destroyed Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
The Mongols Dynasty began
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
The Mongol empire was weakened
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa was the first Islamic leader
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs Start Building Tenochitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years’ War begins
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Jan 1, 1347
The Bubonic Plague begins in Europe
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu became a center of Arabic learning
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Jan 1, 1368
The Mongal Dynasty ended
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Jan 1, 1368
THe Ming dynasty began
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Jan 1, 1397
The Medici family began to rule Florence
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Jan 1, 1400
The Inquisition took place
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He made his first voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
The Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1453
The Byzantine Empire ends
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years’ War ends
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Jan 1, 1460
The Songhai empire began
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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 conquered Granada
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Game began to sail to India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot landed in Canada
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Jan 1, 1500
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1500
Humanism began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedrol Cabral Brazil
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Jan 1, 1500
Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe
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Jan 1, 1504
Mchelangelo completed his statue of David
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses
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Jan 1, 1519
The Aztec Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes destroyed the 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 the Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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Jan 1, 1532
The Inca Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1534
King Henry VIII created Anglicanism
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Jan 1, 1541
John Calvin created Calvinism
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus stated that the earth revolves around the sun
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Jan 1, 1545
The Council of Trent was formed
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The Songhai empire ended
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Henry Hudson began to try to find dthe Northwest Passage
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Galileo decide to build a telescope
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The Mali empire ended
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The Thirty Years’ War began
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The Ming dynasty ended
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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The Thirty Years’ War ended
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The microscope was invented
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Newton published a boook about gravity
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The era of the Samurai class ended
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Charlemagne’s Christian Empire begins
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The Tang dynasty began
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Buddhism Religion expanded in the Tang dynasty
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Heian-Kyo became the capital of Japan
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The Heian Period Began
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The Japanese invented Kana
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The Tang dynasty ended
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Tang Dynasty recorded a formula for gunpowder