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-1193 |
Greeks destroy
Troy. |
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-1200 |
Hebrews develop monotheism. |
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-1374 |
Egyptian king Amenhotep introduces monotheism. |
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-1500 |
Moses delivers the Ten Commandments from Mt. Sinai.
In China, Shang kings organize human and animal sacrifices, calling themselves sons of God. |
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-1800 |
Taboos against eating pork established in the Near East. |
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| Invention of
alphabet. 1 |
-2000 |
Hittites plunder Babylon.
Egyptians begin worshipping gods. |
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| Chinese mill grain. |
-2205 |
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| Sumerians develop 600-symbol alphabet.
First Egyptian libraries established. Cotton cultivated in Peru.
First iron objects appear. |
-2500 |
Humans use bow and
arrow used to kill other humans. |
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| Huang Ti produces first medical text, Nei Ching. |
-2595 |
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| Egyptians sun-dry fish. |
-2600 |
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| Wife of Chinese emperor Huang Ti manufacturers silk. |
-2640 |
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| Egyptians begin building pyramids.
First standardized system of measurement created in Mesopotamia. |
-2700 |
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| Sumerians invent the sickle. |
-2800 |
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| Egyptian physician, Imhotep, begins to treat disease. |
-2980 |
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| Gilgamesh, Sumerians write story of a great flood and humans saved in an ark.
Egyptians domesticate dogs.
Ling-lun invents the first bamboo flute.
Cotton woven in Indus Valley.
Indian civilization takes root.
Coins replace barley as legal tender in Sumeria.
Sumerians develop a number system,
oil-burning lamp, grow barley, bake bread, make beer. |
-3000 |
First dolphins killed in the Black Sea. |
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| A picture from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, reveals the earliest evidence of vehicle wheels. |
-3200 |
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| Egyptians establish city of Memphis. |
-3400 |
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| Sumerians establish centers of civilization.
First numbers used in Egypt.
Mesopotamians develop potter's wheel and the
wheel.
Sumerians invent an alphabet.
Sumerians use plows to cultivate.
Mesopotamians use clay to make pots. Sumerians erect temple at Janna. |
-3500 |
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| Asian artisans begin to work bronze. |
-3600 |
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| First Sumerian writing appears on clay tablets.
Babylonians create
omen
tablets.
Egyptians play harps and flutes.
Pottery appears in Russia, China, Egypt, and southwestern Europe. |
-4000 |
Sumerians create bureaucracies run by priests and begin worshipping gods. |
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| Europeans domesticate horses. |
-4350 |
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| Egyptians establish
calendar with 360-day year of 12 30-day months. Cattle domesticated in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Egyptians build irrigation canals and dikes. |
-5000 |
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| Persians begin to
smelt copper. |
-5500 |
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Egyptians build
the world's first
astronomical observatory. |
-6,000 |
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| Sumerians invent
the wheel. |
-6500 |
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| Neolithic humans
cultivate plants, domesticate animals, make cloth and pottery.
Cultivation of rice in the
Yangtze Valley. |
-10,000 |
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| Pottery made in Japan. |
-10,700 |
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| Iraqis
domesticate dogs. |
-12,000 |
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| European
cave art created. |
-20,000 |
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1. David Sacks;
Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z
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