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Period: 4000 BCE to 500
World History
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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 Begins
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Period: 1401 BCE to 570 BCE
Military Empires
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1400 BCE
Development of Iron Smelting
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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 The 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 Rebuplic
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500 BCE
Gautama Founds Buddhism
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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 BCE
Roman Empire
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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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622
Muhammad founds Islam
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800
Charlemagne temporarily reverses decline of Western Europe
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Period: 850 to 1250
Golden Age of Islam
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Period: 1095 to 1291
Crusades
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Period: 1100 to 1350
Development of Major European Trading Centers
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1200
Venetians and Arabs Monopolize European Spice Trade
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1215
English Nobles Force King John to Sign Magna Carta
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1290
Development of Parliamentary Government in England
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1300
End of Middle Ages in Italy
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Period: 1305 to 1550
Renaissance in Italy
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1400
End of Middle Ages Elsewhere in Europe
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1450
Development of Moveable Type and Printing Press
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1450
Prince Henry Develops Marine Technologies
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Period: 1450 to
Renaissance elsewhere in Europe
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1453
Fall of Constantinople--end of Byzantine Empire
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1493
Discovery and exploration of the New World begins
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1498
Da Gamma reaches India
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Period: 1500 to
Search for practical NW passage
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1506
Da Vinci Paints the Mona Lisa
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1517
Luther Posts 95 Theses
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Period: 1519 to 1522
Magellan expedition circumnavigated the globe
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1534
Henry VIII Heads Church of England
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1543
Copernicus proposes sun-centered solar system
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England Defeats the Armada
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Period: to
Thirty Years' War
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Glorious Revolution in England
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Isaac Newton describes force and motion in math terms
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James Watt perfects the steam engine
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John Kay invents the flying shuttle
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U.S. Declaration of Independence
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U.S. Constitution goes into effect
