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Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE
3000 BC Ancient Egypt
no human rights, if you were in the right crowd everything was fine, if not than you were a slave -
Period: 539 BCE to 539 BCE
Cyrus Conquers Babylon
he announced all slave they were free.
It was a revolutionary decision during that time.
They were also free to chose their own religion.
Cyrus Cylinder written.
The start of 'human rights'. -
Period: 479 BCE to 479 BCE
Greece
Greece found out about human rights. -
Period: 272 BCE to 271 BCE
India
India heard about human rights -
Period: 27 BCE to 27 BCE
Rome
Rome found out about human rights.
They figured at the people automatically followed certain laws called: Natural Law
People in Power didn't like the idea -
Period: 1215 to 1215
A king agrees
A king agreed that no one could over rule the rights of people not even a king -
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Petition of Right
Human rights were starting to get recognised -
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British Bill of Rights
People's rights were safe from people in power. (in the making) -
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America
America was born out of the new rights which was unable to be stopped by the king. -
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America Declares Independance
it took a lot of convincing (including independence from America) before the king started to understand that everyone was created equal. -
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French Revolution
The French followed suite to America with their own revolution for their own rights
They had a longer list of rights which they insisted the rights were just made up (they were natural)
Roman concepts of 'natural law' turned into 'natural rights' -
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Napoleon invades Europe
Napoleon did not like the new French democracy so he decided to over throw it.
He wanted to claim the title of Emperor of the world He almost succeeded -
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Sixth Coalities
The countries of Europe joined forces
They defeated him
Human rights started up again as a 'hot topic'
Europe drew up international agreements, granting many rights of a broad spectrum across Europe -
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WW1-2
War broke out with the killing of half the Jewish population.
90 million people died
Human rights were very close to being eliminated
The world was desperate for change -
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Mahatma Gandhi Leads India's Protests
Mahatma Gandhi had enough of Europe evading with their massive army and decided that everyone deserved rights not only in Europe -
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Salt March
Marches were being held and European's started to agree with Mahatma Gandhi -
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United Nations Established
The purpose of the UN was '...To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person,'
Every country had their different ideas of what human rights should be -
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Eleanor Roosevelt Chairs UN Commission
She helped to create the rights that were suited to absolutely every human being
This was the birth of 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights'
Natural rights turned into human rights