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10,000 BCE
Start of Agriculture
Gradual transition away from hunter gatherer lifestyle begins roughly around this time -
Period: 5000 BCE to 1500 BCE
Mesopotamian civilization
One of the first civilizations, started in the "fertile crescent" -
Period: 5000 BCE to 1500 BCE
Indus River Valley Civilization
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4000 BCE
Development of Urban centers
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3500 BCE
Invention of the wheel
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Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE
Bronze age
(In the Indus river valley) -
3100 BCE
Egypt founded
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2767 BCE
Great Pyramid at Giza built
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Period: 2100 BCE to 221 BCE
Early China
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2000 BCE
Sumerians and Babylonian base 10 number system
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1848 BCE
Stonehenge created
Stones moved with apparently minimal technology, created as a celestial clock -
1600 BCE
Begining of Chinese Writing
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1400 BCE
Indian Vedas Written
Originally passed down orally, important part of the Hindu religion -
Period: 950 BCE to
Solomonic Dynasty
The unbroken line of kings/queens claiming to have a direct blood descendant from King Solomon -
Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE
Roman Monarcy
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Period: 585 BCE to 300 BCE
Golden Age of Greek Philosophers
The concept of "science" was first made popular during this period -
Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Confucius
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Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
Roman Republic
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Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE
Socrates
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Period: 428 BCE to 347 BCE
Plato
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Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
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Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE
Alexander the Great
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Period: 221 BCE to 581
Early Imperial China
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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Roman Empire
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Period: 330 to 1453
Byzantine Empire
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Period: 570 to 1250
Medieval Islam
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Period: 581 to 1279
Classical China
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Period: 750 to 1542
Mayan Civilization
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Period: 900 to 1270
Zagwe Dynasty
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950
Invention of Gunpower
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1012
Introduction of Rice Cultivation in China
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1054
The Great Schism
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Period: 1095 to 1291
The Crusades
DEUS VULT -
Period: 1279 to
Modern China
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Period: 1300 to 1521
Aztec Civilization
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Period: 1438 to 1533
Inca Civilization
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1500
Spanish invasion of Central America
