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Period: 3500 BCE to 1700 BCE
Mesopotamia
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Period: 3100 BCE to 671 BCE
Ancient Egypt
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Period: 2800 BCE to 750 BCE
Early Greeks
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Period: 2500 BCE to 1000 BCE
Eastern River Valley Civilizations
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1800 BCE
Development of Judaism
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1400 BCE
Development of Iron Smelting
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Period: 1400 BCE to 570
Military Empires
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Period: 1200 BCE to 510 BCE
Phoenicians and Hebrews
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800 BCE
Rome is Founded
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750 BCE
Homer writes Iliad and The Odyssey
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Period: 750 BCE to 200 BCE
Greek Culture
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Period: 700 BCE to 335 BCE
Greek City-States
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Period: 509 BCE to 30 BCE
Roman Republic
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450 BCE
Pericles Creates Golden Age in Athens
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400 BCE
Socrates and Plato
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Period: 335 BCE to 145 BCE
Hellenistic Period
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Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE
Punic Wars
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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Roman Empire
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30
Jesus founds Christianity
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30
Jesus Founds Christianity
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330
Capital of Roman Empire moved to Constantinople
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476
Fall of Rome
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500
Gautama Founds Buddhism
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622
Muhammad founds Islam
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800
Charlemagne temporarily reverses decline of Western Europe
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Period: 800 to 1200
Golden Age of Islam
mid 800s- mid 1200s -
Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
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Period: 1100 to 1300
Development of Major European Trading Centers
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1200
Venetians and Arabs monopolise European spice trade
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1200
Development of Parliamentary Government in England
Late 1200s -
1215
English Nobles Force King John Sign the Magna Carta
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1300
End of Middle Ages in Italy
Early 1300s -
Period: 1300 to 1500
Renaissance in Italy
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1400
Development of moveable type and printing press
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1400
Prince Henry develops marine technologies and send ships to explore coast of Africa
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1400
End of Middle Ages elsewhere in Europe
Mid 1400s -
Period: 1400 to
Renaissance elsewhere in Europe
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1453
Fall of Constantinople
End of Byzantine Empire -
1492
Discovery and exploration of New World begins
Colombus -
1498
Da Gama reaches India
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1500
Luther posts 95 theses
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Period: 1500 to
Search for a practical NW Passage
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1506
Da vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Period: 1519 to 1522
Magellan expedition circumnavigates the globe
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1534
Henry VIII heads Church of England
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England defeats the Armada
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Period: to
Thirty Years' War