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45 Cards in this Set
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Sumerian Civilization Begins
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3500-2500 BC
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Sumerian Cuneiform
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3200 BC
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The Tower of Babel
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3500-3300 BC
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Era of the Old Kingdom of Egypt
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3000-2100 BC
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King Narmer (Menes) unites Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Egypt
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3000 BC
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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3000-1200 BC
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Great Pyramid built (burial place of Cheops)
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2550 BC
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Minoan Civilization
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2200-1450 BC
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Middle Kingdom of Egypt
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2040-1720 BC
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Hammuraabi ingerits the throne of Babylon
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1792 BC
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Ahmose expels Hyksos from Egypt
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1567 BC
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Hatshepsut rules as Pharaoh
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1473-1458 BC
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Mycenaeans settle in Crete
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1450 BC
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Tutankhamen's life span
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1357-1339 BC
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Spread of Assyrian Empire
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1300-1200 BC
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Legend of the Trojan Horse
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1250 BC
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Height of Phoenician civilization; Greek "Dark Ages"
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1200-700 BC
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Homer composes the Iliad and the Odyssey
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800 BC
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Romulus foounds Rome on the Tiber River in Italy
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753 BC
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Nebuchadnezzar rules as king of Babylon
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605-561 BC
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Cyrus the Great rules over Medes and Persians
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559-525 BC
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Confucius lives
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551-479 BC
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Rome becomes a Republic after the last of its kings is expelled
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509 BC
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Demokratia (rule by the people) begins in Athens
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508 BC
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Battle of Marathon
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490 BC
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War between Sparta and Athens (Peloponnesian War)
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431-404 BC
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Alexander the Great rules
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336-323 BC
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Punic Wars
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264-146 BC
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First united Chinese empire (The Qin Dynasty)
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221 BC
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Hannibal's invasion of Italy
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218 BC
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Construction of the Great Wall of China Begins
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214 BC
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Rome destroys Carthage - The Fall of Greece
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146 BC
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Julius Caesar lives
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100 - 44 BC
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Cleopatra
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69-30 BC
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Augustus Caesar's Live
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63 BC - 14 AD
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Roman Empire
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27 BC - 476 AD
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Nero's Reign
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58-64 AD
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Boadicea revolts against Rome
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61-63 AD
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Persecution of the Christians begins in the Roman Empire
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64 AD
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Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed by Titus; Jews scattered
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70 AD
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Pompeii is destroyed by Mt Vesuvius
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79 AD
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Diocletian Lives
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245-313 AD
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The Reign of Constantine
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312-337 AD
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Constantine founds Constantinople and moves the seat of the Roman Empire
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330 AD
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire
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476 AD
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