Regan Overbey-Timeline of World History by Regan Overbey

7000 BCE People begin to settle along the Tugrus and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia.

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2500 BCE The Great Pyramid at Giza was built in ancient Egypt.

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2300 BCE Sargon the Great establishes the Akkadian Empire by conquering all of Mesopotamia

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1800 BCE Babylon Empire begins

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2100 BCE God speaks to Abraham and tells him to go to the land of Canaan

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My birthday was on August 12, 2012. I have my sister, my mom, and my dad. These are them in the picture below.

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3200 BCE Sumerians invent a system of writing known as cuneiform

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9/11/2001 9/11 Terrorist attacks 4 different places in the world. This ends up making the Twin Towers to fall down.

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1333 BCE King Tut starts to rule Egypt

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1279 BCE Ramses the Great begins his rule of Egypt

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1792 BCE Hammurabi rules Babylon

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7000 BCE Mesopotamia starts

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1446 BCE Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt in the Exodus

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34 CE Jesus is crucified by the Romans

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313 CE Constantine issues the Edict of Milan legalizing Christianity in the Roman Empire

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532 CE Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire orders the building if the Hagia Sophia

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610 CE The Prophet Muhammad founded Islam in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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1947 CE Modern nation of Israel created by the U.N.

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1760 BCE Shang Dynasty becomes the first dynasty to rule Ancient China

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1046 BCE Zhou Dynasty begins ruling Ancient China

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551 BCE Confucius the great Chinese philosopher is born

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475 BCE The Warring States period begins in China

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221 BCE Emperor Shi Huangdi leads the Qin Dynasty in unifying Ancient China.

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206 BCE Liu Bang ushers in the Han Dynasty of China

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130 BCE The Silk Road connects the East (China) and the West (Rome) for the first time.

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581CE The Sui Dynasty begins in Ancient China

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618CE Tang Dynasty begins in Ancient China

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960CE The Song Dynasty begins in Ancient China

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1206CE Genghis Khan begins his rule of the Mongol Empire

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1271CE Marco Polo begins his travels to Ancient China

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1405CE Zheng He begins his voyages during the Ming Dynasty

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2600 BCE Harappa and Mohenjo Daro begin to thrive as early Indus River Valley civilizations

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2200 BCE Hinduism originates in the Indus River Valley

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563BCE Siddartha Guatama is born. He will later become known to his followers as “The Buddha.”

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312 BCE Chandragupta Maurya unites India and starts the Mauryan Empire

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268 BCE Ashoka becomes leader of the Mauryan Empire.

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1324 CE Mansa Musa embarks on his historic pilgrimage to Mecca.

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1352CE Ibn Battutah journeys across the Sahara Desert to the Mali Empire of West Africa.

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1591 CE The West African Empire of Songhai comes to an end.

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1482CE Diogo Cam becomes the first European sailor to reach the mouth of the Congo River.

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1865 CE King Leopold II becomes King of Belgium and would later lead a genocide of the Congolese people

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1627 CE Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo people of Angola begins war against the Portugese.

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1885 CE The “Scramble for Africa” begins.

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1994 CE Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.

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2005 CE Second Sudanese Civil War ends

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November 4, 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis began. The Iranian Hostage was an international crisis when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year.

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On September 22, 1980 the Iran/Iraq War started. This was a war between Iran and Iraq over stemmed from a combination of territorial disputes, political ambitions, and ideological clashes

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September 22, 1980

On September 11, 2001 the War on Terror started. This war was between the U.S. and primarily targeting al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, and later, Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, with the stated goal of dismantling terrorist organizations and preventing future attacks.

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War on Terror

On August 2, 1990 the Operation Desert Storm started. Operation Desert Storm was the US-led military operation, part of the larger Gulf War,to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's invasion and annexation of the country

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China (PRC) and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a key figure in the Chinese Revolution, leading the CCP to victory in 1949 and establishing the PRC. Mao's rule was marked by significant social and economic changes, including land redistribution, industrialization campaigns, and the disastrous Great Leap Forward. He also launched the Cultural Revolution, a period of intense social and political upheaval. Mao's policies are credited with unifying China and improving living standards for some, but also resulted in widespread suffering and famine. He died in 1976, and his successor, Deng Xiaoping, later implemented economic reforms that shifted China away from Maoist policies.

a conflict that spanned from 1927 to 1949 and was primarily a struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party (GMD) (also known as the Kuomintang) for control of China

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Outside China, the square is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown due to international media coverage, internet and global connectivity, its political implications, and other factors.

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World War I, also known as the First World War or The Great War, was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918, primarily in Europe and the Middle East. It pitted the Allied Powers (mainly France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and the United States) against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria).

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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962, led by Mao Zedong, the Party Chairman.

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World War II (WWII) was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, involving the vast majority of the world's countries and resulting in an unprecedented level of destruction and casualties.

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