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| 122919976 | The discovery of "Lucy" | Discovered in 1974, earliest known homonid ancestor of modern man. Found at Hadar, Ethiopia | 0 | |
| 122919977 | Homo Sapiens apperance in Africa | About 120,000 years ago evolved from homo erectus | 1 | |
| 122919978 | Charles Darwin | Scientific voyage around the world in 1831 - 1836 aboard the British warship Beagle | 2 | |
| 122919979 | First agricultural villages | 10,000 B.C.E people began to settle down creating the first agriculture villages | 3 | |
| 122919980 | Innovative primary urbanization | Took place in Mesopatamia, the Nile, the Indus, the Huang He, the Niger, in Mexico, and in the Andes Mountains | 4 | |
| 122919981 | Cuneiform | Sumerian used as writing by 3,000 B.C.E | 5 | |
| 122919982 | Rosetta Stone | 196 B.C.E. translated into hieroglyphics, a "demotic" and Greek | 6 | |
| 122919983 | Aryan immigrants | Reached west Ganges Valley and built first cities | 7 | |
| 122919984 | Beginning of state formation | Xia, Shang, Zhou | 8 | |
| 122919985 | Humans arrival in the western hemisphere | Crossed Beringia 15,000 years ago | 9 | |
| 122919986 | Mesoamerica Urbanization | Slash and burnt agriculture, pot irrigation, Chinampas | 10 | |
| 122919987 | Jenne-jeno | Reaches peak of settlements by 900 C.E. | 11 | |
| 122919988 | Sargon and Semitic peoples | 2350 B.C.E. Sargon leads an immigrant group into Sumer | 12 | |
| 122923118 | Hittite Empire Collapse | 1193 B.C.E. perhaps from invaders | 13 | |
| 122923119 | Peloponnesian War | 1432 B.C.E. Sparta attacked Athens and the war began | 14 | |
| 122923120 | Parthenon | Constructed in Athens 447 - 432 B.C.E. to Athena | 15 | |
| 123056614 | Legalization of Christianity | In 313 Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the Roman Empire | 16 | |
| 123056615 | Stoicism | Founded by Greek Zeno about 300 B.C.E. | 17 | |
| 123056616 | Hagia Sophia | Constructed 532 - 537 under Justinian | 18 | |
| 123056617 | Collapse of the Tang dynasty | 900 CE led to disunity | 19 | |
| 123056618 | Chinese Philosophy | Legalism and Confucianism collided during the Qin dynasty fell within four years | 20 | |
| 123056619 | Fall of the Qin dynasty | After the death of Qin Shi Huangdi the Qin dynasty fell within four years | 21 | |
| 123056620 | The Gupta Empire | Began its rise to power in the Ganges valley in 320 CE | 22 | |
| 123056621 | Janapadas | Began to emerge by 700 - 600 B.C.E. and we political groupings | 23 | |
| 123056622 | Rigveda | Composed between 1500 and 1200 B.C.E. | 24 | |
| 123056623 | Buddhism | Flourished for the most part of the Tang dynasty | 25 | |
| 123056624 | Christianity emerges | Splinter group of the Jewish people forming the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth | 26 | |
| 123056625 | Clovis | 496, Chief of Merovingian Franks converted to Christianity, the first Barbarian to do so | 27 | |
| 123056626 | Church divides east and west | Eastern orthodoxy and Roman Catholic | 28 | |
| 123056627 | Hijra | The migration or flight of Muhammed from Mecca to Medina in 622 B.C.E | 29 | |
| 123056628 | Abu Bakr | Became the first Caliph | 30 | |
| 123056629 | Dome of the Rock | Built by the first Umayyed caliph as the first major monument in Islamic history | 31 | |
| 123056630 | Spanish conquistadors | Hernan Cortes and Spanish conquistadors defeat Aztecs and seize Mexico | 32 | |
| 123056631 | International Trade | Fourth century Chinese participate in trade with South China and in the Indian Ocean | 33 | |
| 123056632 | Pax Mongolicia | Lasted for about a century, international trade flourished across the re-opened silk route | 34 | |
| 123056633 | Chinggis Khan | Was proclaimed the "Universal Ruler' | 35 | |
| 123056634 | Hundreds Years War | Fought between England and France 1337 - 1453 | 36 | |
| 123056635 | Bubonic Plague | Europe 1346 - 1350 | 37 | |
| 123056636 | Photography | Invenred in the 1830's | 38 | |
| 123056637 | Muslim Calendar | Began with the date Muhammad moved to Medina | 39 | |
| 123056638 | Peter the Great | Founds St. Petersburg in 1704 | 40 | |
| 123056639 | Portuguese | Begin sugar cultivation in Brazil c. 1560 | 41 | |
| 123056640 | War of Spanish Succession | Reduced France's power | 42 | |
| 123056641 | Asiento | Britain won the right from the Spain to carry all the slave cargoes from Africa to Spanish America | 43 | |
| 123056642 | Columbian Exchange | Brought in its wake both catastrophe and new opportunities | 44 | |
| 123056643 | The Maori | East Polynesian people had arrived and settled in New Zealand about 750 C.E. | 45 | |
| 123056644 | Cape Colony | 1795 Britain took control from its Dutch settlers | 46 | |
| 123056645 | Chinggis Kahn | Conquered China in 1211 | 47 | |
| 123056646 | Safavid Persia | Thirteenth century the Mongols and the Turks first devastated and then repopulated Persia | 48 | |
| 123056647 | Dutch settlers | In 1652 set up base at Cape Town South Africa | 49 |
