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9000 BCE
Domestication of Teosinte into Corn
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3500 BCE
Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization
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2500 BCE
Start of the Preclassic Period (Olmec Civilization in Mesoamerica)
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2334 BCE
Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia
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2000 BCE
Flourishing of Babylonian Culture (Mesopotamia)
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776 BCE
First Olympic Games in Ancient Greece
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530 BCE
Fall of Babylon (Mesopotamia)
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490 BCE
Greco-Persian Wars (Ancient Greece)
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480 BCE
Classical Period of Ancient Greece
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323 BCE
Death of Alexander the Great (Beginning of the Hellenistic Period)
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146 BCE
Fall of Ancient Greece to Rome
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1 BCE
Beginning of the Classic Period (Mesoamerica)
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900
Start of the Postclassic Period (Mesoamerica)
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1521
Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica