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 ** domestication of plants
 ** domestication of herd animals
 === Rise of Civilization ===
 * metal working
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 == Civilization ==
 ===writing===
 * oral traditions made permanent with writing
 * written law (Hammuarabi's Code)
-*
-=== technological advance ===
+==== stages of writing ====
+* drawings
+* symbols
+* pictographs
+* glyphs
+* hieroglyphs
+* logograms
+* phonetic symbols
+* script
+* alphabet
+=== technologies ===
 * Iron Age
 ** mass
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 ** warfare
-Classical Period
+=== empires ===
-* Greece
+* Akkadian empire (first empire)
+* Qin Dynasty
+* Persian empire
+* Roman empire
+=== Classical period ===
+* Hellenistic Age
+* Athens
+* 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)]]
+BC
+* Bronze Age Collapse
+AD
+* birth of Christ
+=== key events and years 1 AD to modern period ===
+* Edict of Milan: officially tolerates Christians across Roman Empire
+* Constantine the Great unifies Roman empire
+* Collapse of western Roman empire
+Mohammad dies
+* Battle of Tours
+* Genghis Kahn arises
+* Magna Carta
+* Fall of Byzantium to Ottomans
+* Gutenberg invents moveable type press
+* Aztec completion of the Sixth Temple at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan
+** the population of Tenochtitlan was between 200,000-400,000 (see [[Tenochtitlan]])
+* Portuguese reach Indian Ocean via Africa Bartolomeu Dias
+* Columbus discover of America
+* other
+** Machiavelli
+* Luther's 95 Theses
+* sparks Protestant Reformation
+English defeat of Spanish Armada
+* rise of Britain
+* decline of Spain
+* Treat of Westphalia ends 30 Years War
+* ruinous political and religious war ends w/ independent German states able to choose religion (protestant v. Catholic)
+* British Glorious Revolution
+** ended British divine rule and affirmed Parliament's power
+* Federick the Great of Prussia
+* Catherine the Great of Russia
+* balance of power shifts away from Austria
+* Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
+* US Constitution affirmed and election / inauguration of Washington as 1st president
+* French Revolution
+* Congress of Vienna restores monarchies after fall of Napoleon
+* popular & radical revolts in Europe fail
+* unification of Germany
+-18
+WWI
+* Russian communist revolution
+* Stock Market crash
+s
+* Great Depression
+* rise of Hitler and the German National Socialist Party (Nazi)
+-45
+* WWII
+* collapse of Soviet Union
-Modern Technologies
+=== Modern technologies ===
+* Franklin Stove
+* lightning rod
+* Thomas Crapper
+* electricity
+* automobile
+* medicine
 * modern Air Conditioner 1902 by Willis Carrier
 * first home air conditioner, 1914
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+[[Category:Timelines]]
+[[Category:Time]]