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1800 BCE
Ancient Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC -
1800 BCE
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to c. 5th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). -
689 BCE
John Locke
John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
a charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede -
Petrition of Rights
A statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I. Refusal by Parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects' houses as an economy measure. -
English Bill of Rights
The 1689 English Bill of Rights was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 when James II was deposed. -
Iroquois
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. -
Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.