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8000 BCE
Development of Agriculture
This is about 8000 B.C.E. where we start to see humans going from hunter gathers to agriculture and pastoralism. Agriculture grew first in Egypt, Mesopatamia, and Indus Valley later in centeral America -
4000 BCE
Bronze age begins
Around 4000 B.C.E. Civilizations like Egypt, Mesopatamia and Indus started to use metal tools like bronze. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 2600 BCE
The Rise of Empires
3500 B.C.E. - 2600 B.C.E. it was about when Urban Centers emerged in Mesopotamia creating advanced social structure and cuneiform writing -
Period: 3200 BCE to 1300 BCE
Rise of Empires (continue)
Between 3200 - 1300 B.C.E. is when all of Eygpt became united under the control of one Pharaoh. Also the Indus river cities began to grow -
3100 BCE
Irrigation
The first major irrigation project was created under King Menes during Egypt's First Dynasty. He and his successors used dams and canals (one measuring 20 km) to use the diverted flood waters of the Nile into a new lake called lake "Moeris." -
1800 BCE
Hammurabi's code
was an ancient code that was made by Hammurabi a Babylonian code to keep order. Was fair but very cruel code. -
1500 BCE
Early alphabetic script
This was very important for recording history and reading what happened around this time is the only way to know what exists or not -
1300 BCE
Iron Age
This a huge advancement in tools as they started to use iron weapons that were more durable than bronze. They could build stronger and longer lasting weapons, armor, and tools -
Period: 1000 BCE to 700 BCE
Assyrian Empire
Conquered Mesopotamia and much of the Near East and spread its language, such as Aramaic, and culture throughout its empire -
600 BCE
Period 2
This is where period one breaks to 2 -
600 BCE
life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism,Taosim)
These were new rising religions in China that conflict with each other very much -
500 BCE
Greek Golden Age - philosophers.
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323 BCE
Alexander the Great Death
Empire collapsed -
220
End of Han Dynasty
Cao Cao's efforts to completely reunite the Han empire were rebuffed at the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 / 209, when his armies were defeated by the allied forces of Sun Quan and Liu Bei -
476
Fall of Rome
In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more -
600
Period 3
start of the third period and end of second -
732
Battle of Tours
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe -
1095
1st Crusade
The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont -
Period: 1271 to 1295
Marco Polo travels
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Period: 1325 to 1349
Travels of Ibn Battuta
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Period: 1347 to 1348
Bubonic plague in Europe
Estimates vary, but the Black Death may have killed one-half of Europe's population, and about 100 million people worldwid -
Period: 1347 to 1348
Bubonic plague in Europe
took about half of Europe's population away -
1433
end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans
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1450
Period 4
end of period 3 and start of 4 -
1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
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1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain
First interaction with the Americas on record -
1502
Slaves to Americas
Slave trade boomed around this time but American slaves weren't as used -
1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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1533
Pizarro toppled the Inca
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1571
Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)
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Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa
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30 years war
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unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
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Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
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7 years war/French and Indian War
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American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
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French Revolution
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Haitian independence
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Congress of Vienna
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Independence in Latin America
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1st opium war in China
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end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
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German unification
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Period 5
This was and enormous change in all as the industrial revolution marks the new period -
Period 6
This is the period we are in -
Russo-Japanese war
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Mexican Revolution
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Chinese Revolution
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WWI
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Russian Revolution
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WWII
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independence & partition of India
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birth of Israel
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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Cuban Revolution
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Iranian Revolution