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Cuneiform |
(3100 BCE) Form of writing founded in Mesopotamia It is a writing system that shows communication |
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Akhenaten |
(1353-1335 BCE) Egyptian pharaoh Promoted worship of sun god |
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Australopithecus |
(4-1.5 million yrs. ago) early hominid from East Africa First bi-pedal humanoids |
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Phonecians |
(800-500 BCE) traded Created the alphabet |
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Pax Romona |
27 BCE- 180 CE) Roman Empire Time of Roman peace |
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Alexander of Macedon |
(300s BCE) Greece, King Conquers most of the known world |
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Hebrews |
(1850 BCE) ethnic group that speaks Hebrew, from Israel Wrote Hebrew Bible |
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Delian League |
(477 BCE) group of Greek polis who allied against Persia Unification, starts Greek empire |
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Zarathustra/Zoroaster |
(600 BCE) aristocrat/prophet, from Persia Founded Zoroastrian religion |
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Tiberius and Gains Gracchus |
(133-123 BCE) brothers from Rome Try to redistribute land for the poor |
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Narmer |
(3100 BCE) Egyptian king Unified Egypt |
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Stoicism |
(300 BCE) Greek philosophy from Athens, Greece Prominent, dominant philosophy...adopted by Rome |
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