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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 began
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500
The Ghana empire began
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Feb 13, 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 began
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Jan 1, 1050
Movable 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, 1100
The Tale of Genji, the first novel, was written
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade began
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Jan 1, 1168
The era of the samurai 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 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
The 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 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 started building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years' War began
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Jan 1, 1347
The Bubonic Plague began 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 Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1453
The Byzantine Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years' War ended
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Jan 1, 1460
The Songhai empire began
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Jan 1, 1492
The Spanish conquered Granada
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Jan 1, 1500
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 1500
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1519
The Aztec Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1532
The Inca Empire ended
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The Songhai empire ended
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The Mali empire ended
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The Ming Dynasty ended
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The era of the samurai ended
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire began
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The Tang Dynasty began
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The Tang Dynasty ended
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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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Prince Shotoku came to power
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The Heian period began
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Heian-kyo became the capital of Japan
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The Japanese invented kana