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Bronze Age (historical period)
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3600-1200 BCE
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Archaic Greece (historical period)
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800-500 BCE
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Homeric poems written down
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750-725 BCE
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Iliad and Odyssey take their final written form after centuries of development as oral literature
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Classical Greece (historical period)
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500-323 BCE
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Persian Wars
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490-479 BCE
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Greeks vs. Persians
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Peloponnesian War
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431-404 BCE
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Athens vs. Sparta
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Death of Socrates
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399 BCE
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Battle of Chaeronea
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338 BCE
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Macedonians triumph over independent Greek city-states
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Death of Alexander the Great
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323 BCE
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Also: End of classical Greece / Beginning of Hellenistic period
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Hellenistic Period
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323-31 BCE
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Conventionally dated from the death of Alexander to the victory of Augustus at Actium
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Founding of Rome (traditional date)
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753 BCE
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Roman Republic (historical period)
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509-31 BCE
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Assassination of Julius Caesar
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44 BCE
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Roman Empire (historical period)
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31 BCE-476 CE
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Strictly the latter date refers only the end of the Roman empire in the west
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Battle of Actium
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31 BCE
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Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeats Mark Antony and gains sole power
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Reign of Augustus (first Roman emperor)
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31 BCE-14 CE
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Death of Jesus
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33 (30-36) CE
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Precise date uncertain
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Battle of Milvian Bridge
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312 CE
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Also: Conventional date of Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity
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Council of Nicaea
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325 CE
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First ecumenical council of Christian Church
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Fall of Roman Empire (traditional date)
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476 CE
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Deposition of Romulus Augustulus, the last (western) Roman emperor
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Early Middle Ages (historical period)
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500-1000 CE
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St. Benedict founds monastery of Monte Cassino
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530 CE
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Origins of the Benedictines, most important monastic order in western history
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Hijra (Hegira)
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622 CE
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The prophet Muhammad emigrates from Mecca to Medina
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Coronation of Charlemagne
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800 CE
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King of the Franks crowned "emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III
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High Middle Ages (historical period)
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1000-1250 CE
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Also known as the "Central Middle Ages"
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Investiture Conflict
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1075-1122 CE
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Showdown between the papacy and Holy Roman Emperors
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First Crusade
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1096-1099 CE
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The one that successfully recaptured Jerusalem in 1099
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Death of St. Francis of Assisi
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1226 CE
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Later Middle Ages (historical period)
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1250-1500 CE
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Note substantial overlap with the period of the Renaissance
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Hundred Years War
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1337-1453 CE
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France vs. England
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Black Death
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1348-1350 CE
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Pandemic,bubonic plague, peaked 1348–1350
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Italian Renaissance
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1350-1550 CE
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Turkish conquest of Constantinople
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1453 CE
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Also: End of Byzantium, the eastern Roman Empire
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Gutenberg's Bible
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1450 CE
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Also: Gutenberg's printing press
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Martin Luther's 95 theses
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1517 CE
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Also: Beginning of Protestant Reformation
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Magellan's crew circumnavigates the globe
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1519-1522 CE
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Copernicus and heliocentrism
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1543 CE
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Publication of The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (book)
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Council of Trent
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1545-1563 CE
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Major council of Catholic Counter-Reformation
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Thirty Years War
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1618-1648 CE
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Virtually all the great powers of Europe
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Peace of Westphalia
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1648 CE
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Series of treaties ending the Thirty Years War
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