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10699292124180 CEEnd of Pax Romana (200 years of Roman peace)0
10699292125600 BCE - 600 CE, 6th century BCE, the 500sBuddha, Cyrus the Great, Confucius, Lao Tzu1
1069929212632 CEOrigins of Christianity2
10699292127circa 3500 BCEThe beginning of civilization (Sumer)3
10699292128circa 8000 BCEThe Neolithic Revolution, plant domestication4
10699292129circa 1300 BCEintroduction of iron; Hittites5
10699292130476 CEFall of Rome, European Middle Ages, end of rule of law6
10699292131circa 800 BCEOlmec civilization in Latin America, parent to Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs7
10699292132333 CERome splits into East and West, Constantinople is new capital in East8
106992921333rd century BCE, the 200sIndia's first empire. Chandragupta and Katilya, Quin Dynasty, Shi Haundi creates China with legalism9
10699292134202 BCEFounding of Han dynasty, cultural peak10
10699292135312 CEEdict of Milan, religious tolerance to Christians11
10699292136318-540 CEGupta India - advances in math, medicine, and science, cultural peak12
10699292137220 CEEnd of Han Dynasty, rise of Buddhism; China is politically fragmented for 350 years13
10699292138323 CEAlexander the Great, Helenizing process14
1069929213970 CERomans destroy Jerusalem, Jewish Diaspora15
106992921405th century BCE (400s)Roman Republic, 12 tablets of Roman las, Classical Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pericles16
106992921414th century CEdomestication of the camel, camel saddle, Afroeurasia connected by trade17
10699292142circa 1500 BCEBeginnings of the Vedic Age, caste system, Hinduism18
10706436935527 CEDate: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire, peak, Justinian code of law introduced, rule of law for 900 years19
10706436936589 CEBeginning of Sui Dynasty: reintroduction of a central government to China20
10967339944618 CEOrigins of the Tang Dynasty, Silk Roads reintroduced into Chinese territory21
10967339945632 CEOrigins of Islam22
10967339946circa 650-750 CEUmayyad Caliphate; spread of Islam to the West across North Africa and East to Persia23
10967339947732 CEBattle of Tours, Europeans defeat Muslims on the border between France and Spain and stop expansion of Islam into Western Europe24
10967339948circa 750-1250 CEAbbasid of Caliphate, Golden Age of Islam, advances in math, science, art, banking, etc.25
10967339949800 CERule of Charlemagne & the beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire, lasts until 1919, most unified Europe has been under one government since the collapse of Rome26
10967339950circa 1000 CEPeak of Ghana, West African Kingdom wealthy from trade in gold and salt27
109673399511054 CEThe Great Schism, the first split in Christian faith, West is the Roman Catholic Church and East is Orthodox28
109673399521066 CEBattle of Hastings, start of centralized government in Europe29
109673399531095 CEFirst Crusade, between Europeans and Muslims, trade routes reemerge, information and intellectual achievements come to Europe30
109673399541130-1200 CEShu Xi, most important philosopher since Confucius- Neo-Confucianism, Confucianism with Daoist and Buddhist elements31
109673399551206 CEOrigins of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, largest empire of all time and the first to give true religious tolerance32
109673399561271-1295 CEMarco Polo travels the Silk Roads and China, brings back Chinese information to Europe, becomes a member of Kublikan's Royal Court33
109673399571324 CEKingdom of Mali, King Mansa Musa is the richest man in all of world history, controls salt and gold, Timbuktu is an intellectual center34
109673399581325-1349 CETravels of Ibn Battuta, the "Muslim Marco Polo", travels through the Islamic World and Africa keeping a journal35
109673399591347-1348 CEBubonic Plague kills 1/3 of the people in Europe36
109673399601405 CEZheng He (the Christopher Columbus of China) travels Southeast Africa and the Indian Ocean in seven trips with tens of thousands of sailors on dozens of ships37
109673399611433 CEChina closes its borders, builds the Great Wall (Ming Dynasty), misses the science revolution38
10967339962circa 1450 CEEurope invents the printing press, 500 years after China39
10967339963circa 1450 CEGreat Zimbabwe collapses40
10967339964circa 1450 CEByzantine Empire collapses41
11184429650800 CECollapse of the Mayans42
111844296511325 CEAztec Empire established43
111844296521523 CEAztec Empire falls44
111845209561453 CECollapse of the Inca45

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