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1300 BCE
Greece: Founding of Greece
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1250 BCE
Greece: Trojan War
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776 BCE
Greece: First Olympic Game
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753 BCE
Rome: Rome Founded
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Period: 700 BCE to 480 BCE
Greece: Archaic Period
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551 BCE
Chinese: Birth of Confucius
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509 BCE
Rome: Rome becomes a Republic
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Period: 497 BCE to 479 BCE
Greece: Persian Wars
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Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE
Greece: Classical Period
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479 BCE
Chinese: Death of Confucius
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323 BCE
Greece: Death of Alexander the Great
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Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE
Greece: Hellenistic Period
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Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE
Chinese: Qin Dynasty
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Period: 220 BCE to 206
Chinese: Han Dynasty
Includes Western Han, Xin, and Eastern Han dynasty -
Period: 146 BCE to 30 BCE
Greece: Late Hellenistic Period
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44 BCE
Greece: Assassination of Julius Caesar
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30 BCE
Greece: Death of Cleopatra
Cleopatra's death marked the end of the Ancient Greek empire -
27 BCE
Rome: Roman Empire begins
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4 BCE
Christianity: Birth of Jesus Christ
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30
Christianity / Rome: First Pope
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Period: 31 to 36
Christianity: Conversion of St. Paul
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33
Christianity: Death of Jesus Christ
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67
Christanity: Death of St. Paul
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313
Christianity / Rome: Christianity made legal in Rome
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380
Rome: Christianity proclaimed as sole religion in Rome
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391
Rome: Worship of other gods made illegal
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395
Rome: Rome splits
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476
Rome: End of the Western Roman Empire & fall of Ancient Rome
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570
Islam: Birth of Muhammad
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610
Islam: Muhammad received first vision
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Jun 8, 632
Islam: Death of Muhammad
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Period: 960 to 1279
Chinese: Song Dynasty
Includes Northern and Southern Song -
Period: 1368 to
Chinese: Ming Dynasty
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1453
Rome: End of Byzantine Empire
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Period: to
Chinese: Qing Dynasty
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China: Republic Of China
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China: People's Republic of China
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Period: to
China: Cultural Revolution