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4,500 B.C. | Humans learn how to use the plow.![]() | More Info..
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4,250 B.C. | Development of copper and bronze metallurgy. | More Info..
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4,242 B.C. | The very first year on the Egyptian calendar. | More Info..
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4,000 B.C. | The wheel is invented and begins to be used. Rice farming in China is developed. | More Info..
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3,400 B.C. | Beginning forms of writing. Earliest ziggurats are built. | More Info..
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3,113 B.C. | First date in the Mayan calendar.![]() | More Info..
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3,100 B.C. | Egypt’s 1st Dynasty created by the joining of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt. | More Info..
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3,000 B.C. | Bricks are used widely(and made by a fired process). First city-states are created, palaces are starting to be build. Temples are usually build at the center of the cities. There were large military campaigns by ethnic groups of people. | More Info..
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2,750 B.C. | Rule of Gilgamesh. King of Uruk. ![]() | More Info..
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2,667 B.C. | Very first pyramids were built in Egypt. | More Info..
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2,500 B.C. | First written legal codes. | More Info..
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2,400 B.C. | The construction of Stonehenge in England starts. | More Info..
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1,792 B.C. | Hammurabi begins his rule as king. | More Info..
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1531 B.C. | The Hittites conquer Babylon. | More Info..
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1,333 B.C. | A young boy named Tutankhamun succeeds Akhenaten, he restores the nation to worshiping the old Egyptian gods. | More Info..
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1,250 B.C. | Ziggurat in Khuzestan, in present day Iran is built. Moses leads the Israelites on an exodus out of Egypt. | More Info..
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1,200 B.C. | Moses leads his people out of Egypt. | More Info..
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1,126 B.C. | Nebuchadnezzar I begins his rule as king. | More Info..
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1,070 B.C. | The Kingdom of Kush in Nubia begins. | More Info..
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