Connorf42 World Civilization Midterm 2

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Prehistory

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13.8 Billion - Universe, Big bang
4.6 Billion - Earth formation
40 million - Primates
7 million - Separation of Hominae & other primates
4-3 million - Australopithecus
2.5 million - Appearance of the genus homo
2 million - Homo habilis, Homo erectus
Stone Tools, Old Stone Age (paleolithic) - 12,000 BCE
280,000 - Homosapiens
80,000 - Migration out of Africa to Eurupe, Asia, Oceania
16,000 - Migration to America
10,000 - Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
4,000

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Mesopotamia

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6000 Semetic Migration. Settlements, irrigation
4000 Sumerian civilization arisen, 100k population
3200 Dozen cities (Ur, Eridu, Uruk, Lagash, etc)
3000 Noble Councils replaced by Lugals, kings
2334 Sargon of Akkad's Empire
2193
1762 Neo-Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi
1600
1300 Assyrian Empire
612

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Egypt

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10000 Sahara desert was a grassy steppe land

9000 East Sudan domesticated cattle and became nomadic herders
5000 Sahara becomes uninhabitable
3100 Archaic Period, Early Dynastic Period
2660 Old Kingdom
2160 First Intermediate Period
2040 Middle Kingdom
1650 Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos Interlude
1550 New Kingdom
1070 Third Intermediate Period

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China

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5000 Yangshao Society in Yellow River Valley
2000 Xia Dynasty
1766 Shang Dynasty
1045 Zhao dynasty
771 Spring and Autumn Era (nomadic invasion)
403 Warring States Era
221 Qin Dynasty

206 Former Han Dynasty

9 CE Wang Mang

25 CE Later Han Dynasty
220 CE Three Kingdoms

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India

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200000 Human Occupation
3000 Harappan Society
1900
1500 The Vedic Age
520 Gandhara (Achaemenid Empire), Magadha Kingdom
330
322 Maurya Empire
185
320 CE Gupta Empire
550 CE

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Persia

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550 Achaemenid Empire
547 Conquest of Lydia
539 Conquest of Babylon
525 Conquest of Egypt
499 Greco-Persian War, Ionian Revolt
492 Battle of Marathon
480 Battle at Thermopylae
479 Naval Battle of Salamis
478 Battle of Platea
449 End of Greco-Persian War
330 Fall to Macedonia
323 Seleucid Empire
247 Parthian Empire
83 CE End of Seleucid Empire, Romans Conquered
224 CE End of Parthian Empire, Pressure from Roman Empire
224 CE Sassanid Empire
651

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Greece

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2000 Minoan society

1700

1600 Mycenaean Society

1100

1200 Trojan War/Sea People

800 Rise of Poleis

499 Greco-Persian War

449 Delian League

431 Peloponnesian War

403

338 Conquered by Phillip of Macedon

275 Antigonid Empire

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Rome

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753 Founding of Rome

509 Founding of Roman Republic

449 Twelve Tables 458 Early Republic

274 Mid-Republic

264 Punic Wars

147 Late Republic

87 Marius Takes Rome

83 Sulla Takes Rome

49 Caesar crosses Rubicon

46 Caesar makes himself dictator for life

44 Caesar assassinated

27 Octavian named Augustus

224 CE Sassanids topple Parthians

260 CE Emperor Valerian captured

286 CE Diocletian splits empire

313 CE Constantinople

410 CE Visigoths sack Rome

476 CE Odovacer deposed Romulus Augustulus