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26 Cards in this Set
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Homo sapiens, appear in Africa
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400,00 BC
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Development of agriculture and domestication of animals
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10,000-8,000 BC
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Bronze Age in southwestern Asia, Egypt, and Europe
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4,000-1,000 BC
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First cities established and writing developed in Mesopotamia
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4,000-3,000 BC
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The wheel invented in Sumer
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3,000 BC
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Old Kingdom in Egypt
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2686-2181 BC
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Sargon establishes the first empire in Akkadia in Mesopotamia
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2350 BC
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Earliest Minoan palaces on Crete
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2200 BC
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Middle Kingdom in Egypt
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2050-1786 BC
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Reign of Hammurabi, king of Babylon
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1792-1750 BC
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Beginning of Hittite kingdom in Anatolia
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1750 BC
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Hebrews migrate into Egypt
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1600-1400 BC
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New Kingdom in Egypt
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1567-1085 BC
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Mycenaeans take over Minoan Crete
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1400 BC
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Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt
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1250 BC
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The Near East's Dark Age
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1200-1000 BC
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Greece's Dark Age
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1000-750 BC
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Neo-Assyrians create an Empire
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900 BC
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Traditional date of first Olympic Games in Greece
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776 BC
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Greeks establish many new settlements around the Mediterranean
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775-500 BC
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Greeks begin to create city-states
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750 BC
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Nebuchanezzar II creates Neo-Babylonian Empire, exiles Hebrews to Babylon
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605-562 BC
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Athenians appoint Solon to recodify theirlaws and try to end social unrest
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594 BC
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Cyrus founds the Persian Empire
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559 BC
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Cyrus allows exiled Hebrews to return from Babylon to Palestine
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539 BC
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Cleisthenes begins to reform Athenian democracy
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508 BC
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