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300
Camels were first brought to the Sahara
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300
The Classic Mayan Civilization Begins
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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 Begins 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 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 begins civil service exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista Began with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
First Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade Begins
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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 first shogun came to power
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Jan 1, 1192
The era of the samurai began
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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
The Signing of Magna Carta
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Jan 1, 1240
The Mali Empire Began
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Jan 1, 1250
The Aztecs Arrived in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols destroy Baghdad
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Jan 1, 1279
The Mongol Dynasty Began
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Jan 1, 1300
The Mongol Empire was Weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
Humanism begins in Italy
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance beings 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
Hundreds 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 Ming Dynasty Began
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Jan 1, 1368
The Mongols Dynasty Ended
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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 Inca Began to Create Roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johann 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, 1469
The 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
Spanish Conquer Granada
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a 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 Canada
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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, 1500
the microscope was invented
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Jan 1, 1504
Michelangelo completed his statue of David
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus stated that the Earth revolves around the sun
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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, 1520
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 Translated the Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
The Inca Empire Ended
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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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 his theory of the heliocentric universe
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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 and find the Northwest Passage
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Galileo decided 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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The Thirty Years' War Ends
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Peace of Westphalia is signed
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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Newton published a book on gravity
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The era of the samurai ended
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire
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The Tang Dynasty Begins
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The Tang Dynasty Ended
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Tang Dynasty recorded a formula f or gunpowder
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Buddhism religion expanded in the Tang dynasty
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The Japanese invented kana
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The Heian period began
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Heian-kyo became the capital of Japan