Timeline Flashcards
1
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10,000–2500 b.c.e.
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Neolithic Era
2
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3500–3000 b.c.e
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- Emergence of civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Development of cities and writing
3
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3000–2000 b.c.e
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- Consolidation of political power in Sumer
- Old Kingdom in Egypt
- Conquest of Sumer by Akkadians
4
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2000–1500 b.c.e
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- Egyptian Middle Kingdom
- Rise of the Hittites
- Highpoint of Minoan civilization on Crete
5
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1500–1000 b.c.e.
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- Egyptian New Kingdom
- Egypt’s wars with Hittites
- Mycenean conquest of Minoans
- Trojan Wars
- Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt
- Invasions of Palestine by “sea peoples”
6
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1000–500 b.c.e.
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- Highpoint, division, destruction of Hebrew kingdoms
- Creation of Phoenician trading networks and colonies
- Rise and fall of Assyria
- Rise and fall of Neo-Babylonian kingdom
- Emergence of Persia
- Greek Dark Ages, Archaic period
- Founding of Rome
7
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500–350 b.c.e.
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- Classical age of Greece
- Spread of Roman influence in central Italy
8
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350–31 b.c.e.
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- Hellenistic Era
- Rome’s rise to prominence
9
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Classical age of Greece
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500-350 b.c.e
- Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
- Highpoint of Athenian drama and comedy with Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
- Sophists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Parthenon
10
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Hellenistic Era
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350-31 b.c.e.
- Campaigns of Alexander the Great, 336–323
- Antigonid, Seleucid, and Ptolemaic successor kingdoms to Alexander
- Cultural achievements of Alexandrian science:
- Archimedes, Eratosthenes
- Stoicism and Epicureanism
11
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Rome’s rise to prominence
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350-51 b.c.e.
- Creation of republican institutions
- Conquest of western Mediterranean, 264–146
- Conquest of eastern Mediterranean, 197–31
- Early Roman writers:
- Cato, Catullus, Cicero
12
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Greek Dark Ages, Archaic period
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1200-500 b.c.e
- Homer, Iliad, and Odyssey
- Greek colonization
- Emergence of the polis
13
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31 b.c.e. - 180 c.e.
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- Pax Romana and the Augustan Principate
- Life and ministry of Jesus Christ
14
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Pax Romana and the Augustan Principate
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31 b.c.e - 180 c.e.
- End of Rome’s civil wars and creation of the imperial regime
- Empire reached greatest extent “Golden” and “Silver” ages of Latin literature
- Virgil, The Aeneid; Livy and Tacitus in history; Ovid and Horace in verse
15
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Life and ministry of Jesus Christ
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31 b.c.e. - 180 c.e.
- Missionary work of original apostles and St. Paul
- Emergence of a Christian church
- First persecutions of Christians by the Roman state
