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** domestication of plants | ** domestication of plants | ||
** domestication of herd animals | ** domestication of herd animals | ||
=== Rise of Civilization === | === Rise of Civilization === | ||
* metal working | * metal working | ||
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== Civilization == | == Civilization == | ||
===writing=== | ===writing=== | ||
* oral traditions made permanent with writing | * oral traditions made permanent with writing | ||
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** warfare | ** warfare | ||
Classical Period | === Classical Period === | ||
* Hellenistic Age | |||
* Greece | * Greece | ||
* Rome | |||
=== key events and years AD 1 to modern period ==== | |||
313 | |||
* Edict of Milan: officially tolerates Christians across Roman Empire | |||
325 | |||
Constantine the Great unifies Roman empire | |||
476 | |||
* Collapse of western Roman empire | |||
632 Mohammad dies | |||
732 | |||
* Battle of Tours | |||
1206 | |||
Genghis Kahn | |||
1215 | |||
* Magna Carta | |||
1453 | |||
* Fall of Byzantium to Ottomans | |||
1455 | |||
* Gutenburg invents moveable type press | |||
1488 | |||
* Portuguese reach Indian Ocean via Africa Bartolomeu Dias | |||
1492 | |||
* Columbus discover of America | |||
* other | |||
** Machiaveli | |||
1517 | |||
* Luther's 95 Theses | |||
* sparks Protestant Reformation | |||
1588 English defeat of Spanish Armada | |||
* rise of Britain | |||
* decline of Spain | |||
1648 | |||
* Treat of Westphaia ends 30 Years War | |||
* ruinous religious war ends w/ German states able to choose religion (protestant v. Catholic | |||
1688 | |||
* British Glorious Revolution | |||
** ended British divine rule and affirmed Parliament's power | |||
1740 | |||
* Federick the Great of Prussia | |||
* Catherine the Great of Russia | |||
* balance of power shifts away from Austria | |||
1776 | |||
1789 | |||
* US Constitution affirmed and election / inauguration of Washington as 1st president | |||
* French Revolution | |||
1815 | |||
* Congress of Vienna restores monarchies after fall of Napoleon | |||
1848 | |||
* popular & radical revolts in Europe fail | |||
1870 | |||
* unification of Germany | |||
1914-18 | |||
WWI | |||
1929 | |||
* Stock Market crash | |||
1939-45 | |||
* WWII | |||
1989 | |||
* collapse of Soviet Union | |||
Modern | === Modern technologies === | ||
* Franklin Stove | |||
* lightning rod | |||
* Thomas Crapper | |||
* electricity | |||
* automobile | |||
* medicine | |||
* modern Air Conditioner 1902 by Willis Carrier | * modern Air Conditioner 1902 by Willis Carrier | ||
* first home air conditioner, 1914 | * first home air conditioner, 1914 | ||