Whirlwind World History

9000 BC

Jericho built defensive walls

Early settlement

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Çatal Höyük

Early settlement

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5000 BC

The metal plow was invented

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Sumer

one of the earliest civilization

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3300 BC - 1300 BC

Indus Valley Civilization

Early civilization in modern South Asia

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3100 BC

Narmer

United Upper and Lower Egypt

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3000 BC

Sumerian Achievements

360 degrees, 60 second minute, cuneiform

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2600 BC

Great Pyramid of Khufu (Giza)

The single largest pyramid of the Old Kingdom

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Mohenjo-daro

largest city in Indus Valley

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Sargon the Great

The first king of the Akkadian Empire.

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Enheduanna

A Sumerian priestess; the first known author

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Epic of Gilgamesh

One of the earliest pieces of literature

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2060 BC - 2009 BC

Mentuhotep II

First pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom

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Hammurabi

Babylonian king who created a famous law code

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1600 BC - 1046 BC

China: The Shang Dynasty

First Chinese dynasty with written records; a series of 31 kings

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1580 BC

Chariots and bronze introduced to Egypt

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1550 BC

Ahmose I

expelled the Hyksos from Egypt

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1479 BC - 1458 BC

Hatshepsut's Rule

only known female pharaoh

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1400 BC - 0400 BC

America: The Olmecs

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1370 BC - 1330 BC

Nefertiti

Queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaten

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1353 BC - 1336 BC

Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten)

King who tried to dramatically change Egypt's religion

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1336 BC - 1326 BC

Tutankhamen (King Tut)

Son Akhenaten; restored Egyptian religion

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Zoroaster

prophet that began the dominant Persian religion: zoroastrianism

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Ramses II

The last good pharaoh

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The Trojan War

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America: Cahokia

Early urban settlement in Ancient North America.

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1100 BC - 0750 BC

The Greek Dark Age

A period of general poverty and loss of culture and writing for the Greeks

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The Assyrian Empire

An empire larger than any before it.

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0883 BC - 0859 BC

Ashurnasirpal II

King of Assyria

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0770 BC - 0256 BC

China: Zhou Dynasty

Longest lasting dynasty in Chinese history

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0750 BC - 0490 BC

The Greek Archaic Age

The earliest period for which written evidence survives; the period of Greek city-states, colonizing, and the Persian wars

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0750 BC

The Illiad and the Odyssey

written by Homer

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0722 BC

Assyrian empire conquers Israel

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Greece: Age of Tyrants

A period of time in which many Greek city-states instituted tyrants to ward off civil wars between aristocrats and poorer citizens

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0650 BC - 0368 BC

Lydians created coins with a standard weight

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0635 BC - 0558 BC

Greece: Solon

Innovative, fair-minded politician who set the ground for democracy in Greece

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0626 BC - 0539 BC

Neo Babylonian Empire

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0623 BC - 0545 BC

Greece: Thales

First known Greek scientist

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0610 BC - 0546 BC

Greece: Anaximander

Thales's student, who proposed that the Earth is suspended in space

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0605 BC - 0562 BC

Nebuchadnezzar II

leader of the Neo Babylonian Empire who destroyed the city of Jerusalem and deported many of the Jews to Babylon

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Persia: Cyrus the Great ruled

A fair-minded leader of the Persian Empire who was kind even to his captives

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0586 BC

Babylon Captivity of Israelites by Nebuchadnezzar

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0585 BC - 0525 BC

Anaximenes

Greek scientist who proposed the theory of the four elements

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0563 BC - 0480 BC

Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

spiritual teacher who lived in Ancient India

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0552 BC - 0479 BC

Confucius

Famous Chinese philosopher and teacher

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0550 BC

Peloponnesian League

mutual protection league of Corinth, Sparta, and Thebes

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0509 BC - 0027 BC

Rome: the Republic

a period of about 500 years, in which the city-state of Rome ruled with a republican government

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0508 BC

Greece: Cleisthenes

Under Cleisthenes, Greece became the first "real" democracy.

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0495 BC - 0429 BC

Greece: Pericles

Greek statesman and politician

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0490 BC

The idea of atoms is formed

by scientists Leucippus and Democritus

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