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8000 BCE
The Middle East
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8000 BCE
The Fertile Crescent
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8000 BCE
The Mesopotamia
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8000 BCE
Asia Minor
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3500 BCE
The Sumerian Civilization
They invented the wagon wheel and the sundial. They were also the first to make bronze out of copper and tin. -
Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE
The Bronze Age
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2300 BCE
Hammurabi's greatest achievement
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2050 BCE
The Capital of Egypt is moved to Thebes
The stable, ordered world of the Old Kingdom entered a period of upheaval and violence. Then, around 2050 B.C., a new dynasty reunited Egypt and moved the capital south to Thebes. -
1650 BCE
The Hitties/ important information I should know
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1480 BCE
Queen Hatshepsut
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1370 BCE
Amenhotep assumes power
Amenhotep brought a new religion to Egypt, he said that everyone should worship Aton, the sun-disk god. This did not sit well with most of Egypt. In fact, most people hated him for it and the second he died, the next pharaoh put back in place the original deities. -
1200 BCE
The time of Moses
Two major ideas from the time of Moses that contributed to Judaism was the ten commandants and rejecting all other gods in favor of the one. -
1200 BCE
The Iron Age
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1000 BCE
Phoenician's new idea in writing
It was creating a new and improved alphabet. This alphabet only had 22 characters. It made it so that everyone could use the same language and could write. There was no longer a need for scribes to keep records. -
753 BCE
The Rise of Rome
Two brothers were building the foundations of a city, Romulus and Remus. In the building of Rome, it was said that Romulus killed his brother saying "So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements" Romulus began setting more stone on the stains of his brother's blood, this is how Rome was built per the legend. -
Period: 700 BCE to 336 BCE
The Hellenic Period
They practiced democracy and gave it a chance. Sparta treated their women just as well as their men by keeping them healthy and strong, having them marry later to give them a better chance of having healthy offspring and had them learn gymnastics, wrestling and boxing. Draco wrote down his laws which had previously not been done, so that everyone knew what they were. This made it so that aristocrats could no longer dictate what was legal and what was not. -
500 BCE
Pythagoras develops mathematical theories
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494 BCE
Plebeians Against Patricians
Many plebeians refused to fight in the Roman army unless the patricians yielded to their demands for change. -
Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE
The Golden Age of Athens
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451 BCE
The Twelve Tables
The patricians finally engraved the laws on 12 bronze tablets set in the Forum for all to see. The Twelve Tables, as these tablets were called, became the basis for all future Roman law. The Twelve Tables established the principle that all free citizens had a right to the law's protection. -
435 BCE
Herodotus writes history of the Persian Wars
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400 BCE
Hippocrates helps improves the medical field
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323 BCE
The Hellenistic Period
The most important ideas from this period in my opinion was the science, medicine and mathematics that developed during this period. Alexandria also was a major intellectual center. Its museum was the first ever and included a library of nearly a million volumes, an institute for scientific research, a zoo, and a botanical garden. The new development of three new systems of thought Cynicism, Epicureanism and Stoicism. -
Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
The First Punic War
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Period: 230 BCE to 31
The Republic in Crisis
The gap between rich and poor. It caused a lack of unity and a fear of revolts. Killing Julius Caesar, he was doing great! WHY ON EARTH DID THEY KILL HIM? -
221 BCE
Hannibal
He grabbed one of Rome's allied cities in Spain. Before they had reached Italy half of Hannibal's army was dead. Outnumbered, Hannibal's troops defeated the Roman armies sent against them. By 216 B.C., in a battle at Cannae in southeastern Italy, Hannibal's soldiers had nearly destroyed the Roman army. -
Period: 221 BCE to 202 BCE
The Second Punic War
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146 BCE
The Third Punic War
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Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE
Julius Caesar
Caesar granted Roman citizenship to many people in the provinces outside of Italy, added to the Senate representatives from the provinces who were loyal to him. Caesar also carried out social reforms aimed to benefit the poor. To provide jobs, he set up public works programs and ordered slave-owning landowners to hire more free laborers. Colonies were founded throughout Rome's territories to provide land for the city's landless poor. He also used the solar calendar that counted 365 day. -
Period: 31 BCE to 180
Pax Romana (Roman Peace)
The Romans excelled at adapting the discoveries of others and using them in new and more practical ways. Contributed to the empire's unity by excelling in road building reaching a total length of 50,000 miles. The prosperity was able to reach people of average means. Although fewer people became very rich, more became moderately well off. -
Period: 200 to 500
Roman Decline
Political instability, economic decline, unsuccessful reforms. -
378
Germanic Invasions
They rebelled against Roman rule and defeated a large Roman army. In A.D. 410 the Visigothic chief, Alaric, led his people into Italy, capturing and sacking Rome. -
451
The Huns
