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3575 BCE
Sumerians make pottery wheel
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3500 BCE
Sumerians develop bronze
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Period: 3300 BCE to 1500 BCE
The Bronze Age
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3100 BCE
Sumerians create a calendar
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Period: 3100 BCE to 400
Egyptian use of Hieroglyphics
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2780 BCE
First Egyptian pyramid built
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2600 BCE
First Egyptian embalmment
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2000 BCE
Indo European Immigrants arrived in Italy
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1771 BCE
Hammurabi creates Law Code
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1500 BCE
Hitties develop and use iron
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1250 BCE
The creation of the Ten Commandments
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1200 BCE
The creation of Passover
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Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE
The Iron Age
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1000 BCE
Phoenicians develop simple alphabet
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776 BCE
Start of Olympic Games
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750 BCE
The Ionians(greek) reintroduced culture crafts and skills
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750 BCE
Greeks set up farming in southern Italy
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700 BCE
Creation of Iliad and Odyssey
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Period: 700 BCE to 336 BCE
Hellenic period
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525 BCE
Persia takes over Middle East
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500 BCE
Pythagorean theorem
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451 BCE
Wealthy Romans engrave the law in tablets
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400 BCE
Hippocrates theory of body healing itself
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Period: 323 BCE to 32 BCE
Hellenistic Period
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300 BCE
Euclid o Alexandria writes The Element of Geometry
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287 BCE
Archimedes invents pulley
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Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
Punic Wars
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100 BCE
30 percent of Romes population became slaves
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45 BCE
Julius Cesar becomes dictator
Cesar granted citizenship and helped the poor work -
31 BCE
Octavian becomes ruler
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161
Marcus Aurelius becomes Emperor of Rome
He spent state money on his own pleasures that he bankrupted the treasury. -
200
Army Legions install 28 emperors.
Most of them were killed off in rapid succession. Doing this time of political disorder Romes armies were busier fighting each other than they were defending the empires borders. -
300
Germanic tribes invade Roman Empire
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395
Split of Roman Empire
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395
The Romans abandon Britain
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476
Fall of Roman Empire
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Period: 476 to 1400
Middle Ages
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700
dispute breaks out about church icons in Byzantine
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800
Charlemagne created Christian Roman Empire
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Period: 800 to
The Holy Roman Empire
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820
Viking invasion
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850
government supported University in Constantinople
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Period: 1095 to 1204
Crusades
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1100
Guilds
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1120
apprenticeships
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1140
Rise of Middle Class
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1200
New plow invented
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1204
Fourth Crusade attack Constantinople.
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1211
Ghangas Khan invasions
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1295
The Middle Class emerged
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1300
Giotto paints life of Francis
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Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
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1453
Slavs took over leadership of Eastern Orthodox world
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1535
Reformation begins
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1540
Jesuit religion recognized
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1555
Peace of Augsburg is signed
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Industrial revolution starts
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Period: to
American Revolution
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Declaration of Independence
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Constitution
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William Wilberforce abolished slavery
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Start of French Revolition
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Beginning of Socialism
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Period: to
French Revolution
First estate: Catholic Clergy
Second estate: Noble Men
Third estate: regular French people -
Beginning of Nationalism
Napolean rule -
European leaders urged citizens to move to colonies
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Lord Shaftbury works with union to fix conditions
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French citizens sail to Algeria to expand
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Rushed colonists to New Zealand for gold
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Dickens writes Hard Times
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Darwin theory of evolution
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Tomas Edison invents lightbulb
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Vincent Van Gogh paints sunflowers
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Start of WW1
Germany, Austria Hungary, Turkey vs France, Britain, Russia, Japan, United States -
World War 1 ends
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Mussolini arrives
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Hitler arrives
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Franco arrives
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Period: to
World War 2
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United Nations gets established
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European Union
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North Korea and South Korea sign a truce