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71 Cards in this Set
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10,000 B.C.E. |
agricultural revolution |
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2000 B.C.E. |
beginning of judaism |
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2000 B.C.E. |
1st book- epic of gilgamesh |
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2000 B.C.E. |
1st chinese civilization |
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1500 B.C.E. |
rise of mayans |
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1500 B.C.E. |
aryan invasion of india |
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550 B.C.E. |
buddha born |
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550 B.C.E. |
Confucius born |
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550 B.C.E. |
Cyrus the great unifies persia |
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550 B.C.E. |
Persian Wars |
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400 B.C.E. |
Pericles introduces democracy to athens |
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400 B.C.E. |
han dynasty in china |
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400 B.C.E. |
silk road begins |
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230 B.C.E. |
Alexander the Great, Hellinism |
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45 B.C.E. |
Assassination of Julius Caesar |
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45 B.C.E. |
End of Egyptian empire |
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45 B.C.E. |
Change of Rome from Republic to empire |
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30 |
Beginning of christianity |
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300 |
Constantine legalizes christianity |
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300 |
Roman empire divided east and west |
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622 |
Hegira- Islam begins |
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622 |
Tang Dynasty |
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800 |
viking expansion |
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800 |
Inca empire founds Machu Piccu |
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1096 |
1st crusade |
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1215 |
Magna Carta |
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1215 |
Beginning of Pax Mongolia |
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1215 |
Yuan dynasty in China |
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1327 |
rise of Aztec |
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1327 |
Bubonic plague in Europe |
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1453 |
fall of Constantinople- ottomans major power |
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1453 |
byzantines end |
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1492 |
columbus sails to america |
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1492 |
columbian exchange |
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1517 |
protestant reformation begins |
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1517 |
decline of catholic church |
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1517 |
beginning of wars of religion in europe |
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1521 |
defeat of Aztec |
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1521 |
rise of spanish empire |
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1590 |
Tokugawa unify Japan |
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1789 |
French Revolution |
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1789 |
Enlightenment spreads through Europe |
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1789 |
Haiti inspired to revolt |
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1815 |
Napoleon loses at Waterloo |
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1815 |
Concert of Europe- Klaus von Metternich |
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1815 |
Latin American independence movements |
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1815 |
Egypt under Muhammed Ali |
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1815 |
Industrialization begins in W. Europe |
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1833 |
Slavery from Africa effectively ends |
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1868 |
Meiji Emperor has Meiji Restoration in Japan |
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1869 |
Suez Canal opens |
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1918 |
end of World War 1 |
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1918 |
Communist revolution in Russia under Lenin |
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1918 |
League of Nations formed |
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1918 |
Germany under Weimar Republic and Hiddenburg |
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1918 |
Ottoman, Russian and Austrian-Hungarian Empires end |
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1929 |
Great depression begins |
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1945 |
End of World War II |
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1945 |
End of Holocaust |
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1945 |
United States begins atomic age |
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1945 |
United Nations formed |
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1945 |
Cold War begins |
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1945 |
Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine |
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1945 |
NATO and WARSAW |
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1945 |
Korea divided |
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1947 |
Indian independence |
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1948 |
Israeli independent |
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1948 |
1st Israel- Palestinian War - Palestine losses |
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1948 |
Apartheid begins in South Africa |
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1949 |
Mao wins Chinese Civil War |
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1949 |
Jiang Jeshi flees to Taiwan |
