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Neolithic Revolution
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10,000 B.C.E to 3,500 B.C.E
Mesopotamia. First farming civilization. They began to domesticate crops and animals. These people were the first to do more than just hunt and gather. |
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Neanderthal Man
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Prior to 5,000 BCE. Species before homo-sapiens that were much hairier. They were the beginning of life as we know it in the human race.
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Domestication of Animals
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3,500 BCE. Mesopotamia. People during this period domesticated and trained animals to assist them. They made farming and assisted labor possible by doing this.
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Ziggurat
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3,500 BCE. Africa. Temple/Marketplace. These showed not only the wealth of the city states, but brought people together in a place of worship.
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Sargon
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2,300's BCE.Akkad. First empire builders. They mobilized agriculture and found a way to extract surplus.
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Assyrians
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1000-600 B.C.E. Mesopotamia/Assyria.
These people were the most successful empire in this time period. They created many sophisticated technologies such as the siege machine and bladder rafts that changed the way people fought. |
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Akhenaton
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1375-1358.Egypt. He was the Heretic Pharaoh. He placed importance on religion in government.
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Ramses II
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1279-12-13 BCE. Egypt. Pharaoh. He had over 200 children by the time he died. He was a very influential leader.
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Harappa and Mohenjodaro
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3000-1500 BCE. India. People that created one of the first systems of irrigation with dams and dikes. This helped agriculture take off with a new kind of productiveness.
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Aryan Invasion
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1500 BCE. India. The Aryans destroyed many cities after conflict with Dravidians and moved into Ganges Valley to settle rice. They were the people that realized how great of a resource rice was.
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Janism
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540-476 BCE. India. Religion that believed in true celibacy, honesty, and ancestry. They believed in complete purification and that all life was sacred. It made people think less violently.
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Buddhism
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100-300 CE. India. Religion that spoke that life suffering is caused by desire and to end this suffering you must give up all that you desire for. This led people to be less selfish and care more about people than things.
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Hinduism
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1800-800 BCE. India. Religion focused on that there was a specific way to lead a good life and reincarnate into something better after death. Separated religion and government.
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bodhisattvas
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100-300 C.E. India. People that turned into deity, like angels. Gave people a reason to act in good behavior.
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Qin Shi Huangdi
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6th Century. China. Leader that exterminates the last of the Zhou dynasty and expands to Vietnam and Steppes. His unstoppable army takes over and they become the first standardized society; coin, law, measurements, writing.
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Han Wudi
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141-87 BCE. China. Martial Emperor. He creates the "Mandate of Heaven", expands transportation, and empire. He creates a very strong society and doubles the size of their land.
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Mandate of Heaven
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141-87 BCE. China Idea that if rulers do good, they will go into a peaceful afterlife, if things didn't go so well, even like weather, it was their fault and the dynasty fell. Made rulers work and behave well.
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Xinjang
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6th Century. Capital of Qin.
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Silk Road
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130's BCE. China. 5000 Mile Road that brought wealth, ideas, religion, and connection to Parthians to Han China. Connected many parts of the world.
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Wang Mang
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9-23 CE. China. 35 years of interregnum. Land reforms(well-field system and corruption with Red Eyebrow Rebellion. This all leads to the capital being moved to Luoyang and a spread of Buddhism.
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Hittites
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1400-1200 BCE. Modern Turkey. Group of Indo-Europeans that made the first Constitutional Monarchy.
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The Achaemenid Empire
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558-331 BCE. Persia. World Largest Empire. They ended Babylonian captivity and freed the Hebrews.
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Cyrus The Great
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559-530 BCE. Iran. Ruler during Achaemenid Empire. He launched his own rebellion in ruling the Persians and created such a strong military that he led to the creation of the Persian Empire.
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Zoroastrianism
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900 BCE. Greece. Religion that began as monotheistic, but in later years became monotheistic.Created the idea of "Paradise". Royalty converted, but not many commoners. Replaced by Islam.
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Hoplites
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500's BCE. Persia. Citizen soldiers. They were a solution to armed clashes between city/states.
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Pericles
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461-421 BCE. Greece. Leader during the Peloponnesian War who believed in getting things done by being peaceful and resulted in peace between the Greeks and Persians with a Peace Treaty.
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The Peloponnesian War
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460-455 BCE. Greece. Battle between Athens and Greece. This war showed how powerful Athens would continue to be. Connected them as well.
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Sparta
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550-300 BCE. Greece. City made up of a small amount of very powerful and brutal soldiers and many slaves. They created regulated life standards and the Peloponnesia League.
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Athens
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550-300 BCE. Greece. City made up of merchants and sailors.They create a democratic government and the Delian League.
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The Greco-Persian War
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490 BCE. Greece. War between the Greeks and the Persians. The Persians won, but it created peace between the two countries.
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Alexander the Great
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330 BCE. Greece. He mixed all of the religions to form his own, Hellenism,where he was a god. He contributed to the mixing of Greek and Persian culture/families.
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Pax Romana
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98-198 C.E. Rome. Roman Peace. Era of political stability and moral decay.
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Alexander the Great
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330 BCE. Greece. He mixed all of the religions to form his own, Hellenism,where he was a god. He contributed to the mixing of Greek and Persian culture/families.
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Paul of Taurus
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100's C.E. Martyr that was told to get rid of Christianity, but instead he helped it expand past Judaism and helped make Christianity into a Universal Religion.
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