World History Timeline Power Point

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World History Timeline Power Point

• By Dillon Carlton
• Mickey Daniel

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2 Million B.C.

• Early people begin to use stone tools

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30000 B.C.

• Stone age people create cave paintings

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18000 B.C.

• During the last ice age huge glaciers spread
  across the world

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3200 B.C.

• City-states flourish in Sumer
• Cuneiform is developed

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3000 B.C.

• River valley civilizations emerge

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2700 B.C.

• Egypts old kingdom begins

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2500 B.C.

• 1st Indian civilization arises in the Indus river
  valley

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2300 B.C.

• Sargon of Akkad conquers Sumers first known
  empire

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2000 B.C.

• Chinese civilization emerges along river valleys
  and the east coast

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1790s BC

• Hammurabi king of Babylon issued the first legal
  code.

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1650 BC

• Shang Dynasty gains control of territory along
  the Huang He.

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1500 BC

• The Aryans overrun India.

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1400 BC

• Olmecs establish the first civilization.

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1100 BC

• The Assyrians expand across Mesopotamia.

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1027 BC

• Zhou overthrow the Shang.

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1000 BC

• Kingdom of Israel is established.

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850 BC

• Construction takes place on a huge temple in
  Chavin de Huantar.

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509 BC

• Romans set up a republic.

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500 BC

• The Vedas are written.

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460 BC

• Age of Pericles marks the height of democracy in
  Athens.

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431 BC

• Peloponnesian war begins.

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331 BC

• Alexander the Great conquers Persian empire.

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323 BC

• Hellenistic Age begins. Below is a picture of the
  Hellenistic region.

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268 BC

• Asoka becomes emperor of the Maurya empire.
  (India) To the right is a picture of king Asoka.

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218 BC

• General Hannibal invades Italy. (Punic War)
  Hannibal used war elephants, suh as those to the
  right.

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221 BC

• Shi Huangdi unites much of China and the Great
  Wall is built.

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133 BC

• Greek dominance of the Mediterranean world ends.

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27 BC

• Roman Republic ends. Roman Empire begins under
  Emperor Augustus.

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100s AD

• Buddhism spreads to China.

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300 AD

• Mayas begin to build elaborate cities.

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320 AD

• Gupta Golden Age begins in India.

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330 AD

• Constaniople becomes the capital of the Eastern
  Roman Empire.

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392 AD

• Emperor Theodosius makes Christianity the
  official religion of Rome.

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400s AD

• Roman armies battle Hun and Germanic invaders.
• 476 AD- Germanic leader seizes rome.

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500s AD

• Germanic tribes dominate Western europe.

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527 AD

• Justinian begins his rule of the Byzantine Empire.

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622 AD

• Muhammed journey from Mecca to Medina marks the
  rise of Islam.

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732 AD

• Frankis forces defeat the Muslims at the Battle
  of Tours.

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750 AD

• Abu al- Abbas establises the Abbassid dynasty.

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800s AD

• Frankish King Charlemagne gets crowned emperor of
  the Holy Roman Empire.
• Unifies Western Europe.

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900s AD

• Anasazis build pueblo towns.
• Viking raiders plunge much of Europe onto
  disorder.

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1019 AD

• The reign of yarkaslov the Wise begins in Kiev.

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1096 AD

• Christians launch the First Crusade.

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1099 AD

• Christian Crusades capture Jeruselem from the
  Muslims.

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1200 AD

• Mississippian center of Cahokia thrives.
• Dominance of Franciscan orders of Christian
  friars are founded.

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1206 AD

• Muslims set up Delhi Sultanate in northern India.

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1215 AD

• King John signs Magna Carta.

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1347 AD

• Black Death breaks out in Europe.

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1386 AD

• Duke Wladyslav of Lithuania marries Queen Jadwiga
  of Poland, making Poland-Lithuania the largest
  state in Europe.

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1400s AD

• Aztec empire spreads across Mexico from the Gulf
  to the Pacific Ocean.

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1429 AD

• After Leading French troops to victory, Joan of
  Arc triumphantly marches through the streets of
  Orleans.

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1462

• Ivan the Great begins his reign in Russia.

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1492 AD

• Spanish complete the Reconquista.

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1520 AD

• Suleiman becomes the Ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

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1613 AD

• The Romanov dynasty begins is 304 year reign in
  Russia.

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1620s AD

• Under Shah Abbas the Great, Persian culture
  thrives.