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| 30,000 B.C. | Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the animals they killed. | More Info..
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| 25,000 B. C. | Bering Strait is crossed by humans, connecting Asia to the Americas. | More Info..
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| 18,000 B.C. | Clay pottery ware is created. Humans begin to use raw metals. | More Info..
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| 10,000 B.C. | Humans make it to the southern most point of South America. The earth's temperature warms and the last great Ice Age ends. | .
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| 8,000 B.C. | The Neolithic Revolution and an agriculture way of life is discovered in the Fertile Cresent/Middle Eastern area. Cows and sheep were domesticated and crops where manipulated and tended. (interesting fact: first domesticated dog ever was found in Idaho, USA 8400 BC). | More Info..
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| 7000 B.C. | A great earthquake destroys the city of Jericho. | ..
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| 6,500 B.C. | The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land. | More Info..
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| 6000 B.C.. | First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East. | More Info..
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| 5,500 B.C. | First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region. | More Info..
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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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| 2000 B.C. | The Kush kingdom in Nubia begins. | 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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| 483 B.C. | Buddha dies in India. | More Info..
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| 394 B.C. | Spartan forces win the Battle of Coronea. | More Info..
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| 390 B.C. | The city of Rome is ransacked by The Gauls from France. | More Info..
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| 386 B.C. | Antalcidas of Sparta forms a peace pact with Persia. | More Info..
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| 371 B.C. | Sparta and The Athenian League form a peace pact. |
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| 367 B.C. | Rome elects its first plebeian council member. | More Info..
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| 356 B.C. | The Third Sacred War begins. | More Info..
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| 339 B.C. | The Fourth Sacred war begins. | More Info..
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| 336 B.C. | Philip II of Macedonia is assassinated. | More Info..
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| 332 B.C. | Alexander the Great invades Egypt and founds the city Alexandria. | More Info..
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| 221 B.C. | China is united under the reign of Shi Huangdi, China's first emperor. | More Info..
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| 214 B.C. | Construction begins on The Great Wall of China. | More Info..
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| 204 B.C. | Construction is completed on The Great Wall of China. | More Info..
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| 168 B.C. | Roman forces defeat Perseus at the Battle of Pydna. | More Info..
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| 141 B.C. | Jewish people liberate Jerusalem. | More Info..
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| 140 B.C. | Wu (Liu Che) becomes "Martial Emperor" of China. | More Info..
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| 89 B.C. | First Mithridatic War. | More Info..
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| 63 B.C. | Judea is captured by the Roman empire. | More Info..
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| 50 B.C. | France is conquered by Julius Caesar. | More Info..
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| 30 B.C. | Egypt is absorbed and becomesa province of the current Roman empire. | More Info..
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| 27 B.C. | Augustus begins his rule of the Roman Empire as the first Roman emperor. | More Info..
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