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* oral traditions made permanent with writing | * oral traditions made permanent with writing | ||
* written law (Hammuarabi's Code) | * written law (Hammuarabi's Code) | ||
=== | ==== stages of writing ==== | ||
* drawings | |||
* symbols | |||
* pictographs | |||
* glyphs | |||
* hieroglyphs | |||
* logograms | |||
* phonetic symbols | |||
* script | |||
* alphabet | |||
=== technologies === | |||
* Iron Age | * Iron Age | ||
** mass | ** mass | ||
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** warfare | ** warfare | ||
=== Classical | === empires === | ||
* Akkadian empire (first empire) | |||
* Qin Dynasty | |||
* Persian empire | |||
* Roman empire | |||
=== Classical period === | |||
* Hellenistic Age | * Hellenistic Age | ||
* | * Athens | ||
* Rome | * Rome | ||
=== key events and years 4000 BC to 1 AD === | |||
[[File:Bronze Age End.svg|thumb|right|450px|Bronze Age Collapse c. 1200 BC (wikipedia)]] | |||
1177 BC | |||
* Bronze Age Collapse | |||
1 AD | |||
* birth of Christ | |||
=== key events and years 1 AD to modern period === | |||
313 | 313 | ||
* Edict of Milan: officially tolerates Christians across Roman Empire | * Edict of Milan: officially tolerates Christians across Roman Empire | ||
325 | 325 | ||
* Constantine the Great unifies Roman empire | |||
476 | 476 | ||
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* Battle of Tours | * Battle of Tours | ||
1206 | |||
* Genghis Kahn arises | |||
Genghis Kahn | |||
1215 | 1215 | ||
* Magna Carta | * Magna Carta | ||
1453 | 1453 | ||
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1455 | 1455 | ||
* | * Gutenberg invents moveable type press | ||
1487 | |||
* Aztec completion of the Sixth Temple at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan | |||
** the population of Tenochtitlan was between 200,000-400,000 (see [[Tenochtitlan]]) | |||
1488 | 1488 | ||
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* Columbus discover of America | * Columbus discover of America | ||
* other | * other | ||
** | ** Machiavelli | ||
1517 | 1517 | ||
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1648 | 1648 | ||
* Treat of | * Treat of Westphalia ends 30 Years War | ||
* ruinous religious war ends w/ German states able to choose religion (protestant v. Catholic | * ruinous political and religious war ends w/ independent German states able to choose religion (protestant v. Catholic) | ||
1688 | 1688 | ||
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1776 | 1776 | ||
* Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 | |||
1789 | 1789 | ||
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1848 | 1848 | ||
* popular & radical revolts in Europe fail | * popular & radical revolts in Europe fail | ||
1870 | 1870 | ||
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1914-18 | 1914-18 | ||
WWI | WWI | ||
1917 | |||
* Russian communist revolution | |||
1929 | 1929 | ||
* Stock Market crash | * Stock Market crash | ||
1930s | |||
* Great Depression | |||
* rise of Hitler and the German National Socialist Party (Nazi) | |||
1939-45 | 1939-45 | ||
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1989 | 1989 | ||
* collapse of Soviet Union | * collapse of Soviet Union | ||
=== Modern technologies === | === Modern technologies === | ||
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[[category:World History]] | [[category:World History]] | ||
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[[Category:Time]] | |||