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10,000BC
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5,000BC
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4000BC
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3900
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3800
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0000
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3700
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0000
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0000
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3600
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0000
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0000
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3500
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0000
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0000
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3400
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0000
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0000
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3300
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0000
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0000
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3200
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0000
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0000
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3100
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0000
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0000
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3000
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0000
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0000
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2900
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0000
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0000
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2800
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0000
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0000
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2700
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0000
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0000
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2600
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0000
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0000
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2500
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0000
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0000
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2400
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2300
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0000
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0000
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2200
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0000
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0000
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2100
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0000
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0000
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X
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2000
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0000
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0000
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1900
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0000
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0000
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1800
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0000
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0000
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0000
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1700
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0000
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1600
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0000
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0000
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1500
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0000
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0000
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1400
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0000
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0000
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1300
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0000
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0000
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1200
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0000
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0000
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1100
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0000
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0000
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1000
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0000
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0000
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900
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0000
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0000
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800
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0000
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0000
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700
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0000
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0000
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600
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0000
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0000
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500
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0000
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0000
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400
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0000
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300
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0000
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200
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100
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0000
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BIBLE PERIODS
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BEGINNINGS |
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BEGINNINGS |
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2000 - 1700 ANCESTRAL PERIOD |
1700 - 1275 SOJOURN IN EGYPT |
1275-1235
EXODUS and Wilderness |
1235- 1050 Occupation and Period of the Judges |
1050-922 UNITED MONARCHY
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1050-922 UNITED MONARCHY
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922 DIVIDED KINGDOM
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587-539 period of the EXILE
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539-332PERSIAN PERIOD |
332-165 BC HELLENISTIC PERIOD |
165-63 BC MACABEAN PERIOD |
63 on ROMAN |
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3874 Seth Born
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3074 ADAM DIES
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2948 NOAH BORN
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2469 Instructed to build ark
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2348 Flood Begins
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2055 ABRAM BORN (near or in Ur)
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1980 Abram called
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1955 Isaac born
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1774 Prime Minister Joseph
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1630 Moses born
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1550 Ten Plagues on Egyptians.
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1511 Israel defeats Sihon/Amorites
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1000 DAVID KING
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960 SOLOMON KING
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920 Rehoboam begins reign
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722 Northern Kingdom: Israel Falls
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587 Southern Kingdom: Judah Falls
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539 Some Exiles Return from Babylonia |
515 dedication of Second Temple
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332 Alexander the Great Captures Jerusalem |
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Macabean Period |
63 - Roman period
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Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
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3800/3600 BC - 3100 BC
URUK PERIOD
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EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD in SUMER
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2340 - 2250 AKADIAN EMPIRE
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2125-2027 THIRD DYNASTY OF UR
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2000 -1595 OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD |
1600 - 1200 Hittites and Kassites
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1200 - 612 ASSYRIANS |
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1200 - 612 ASSYRIANS |
612 BABYLON with no Assyrians
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539 PERSIANS |
SELUCID |
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Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia
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Rapid Urbanization
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3500
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Sumerian Flood
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3000 BC: Invent Writing
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2600 BC: Gilgamesh King
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2340BC Sargon & AKAD
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2250
AKAD FALLS
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2125 True Ziggurats
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Isin-Larsa period (usually dated 2000-1763)
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Hammurapi
1792-1750 BC
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1030-1020 Shalmaneser II
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721-705 SARGON II
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705-681 Sennacherib
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612 Assyria falls
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539 BC
END OF BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
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331
Alexander III
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323
Selucid Dynasty
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MEDES |
tribute to Assyrians |
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tribute to Assyrians |
836 First record of MEDES |
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 MEDE EMPIRE -2nd Half 7th century |
550 Medes made subject to Persians |
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728-675 Deioces |
675-653 Phraortes (Kshatrita) |
653-625 Madius & independence |
625-585 Cyzxares (Uwakshatra) |
585-550 Astyages (Ishtumegu) |
550 Medes made subject to Persians |
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PERSIA |
719 Sargon Anexes |
Achaemenid dynasty |
Achaemenid dynasty
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Achaemenes |
Teispes 675-640 Teispes |
640-580 Cyrus I, Ariaramnes |
580–559 Cambyses
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530-521 Cambyses II |
521-485 Darius I |
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INDUS VALLEY
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Indus Valley 3500-?
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EGYPT
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Egypt Unified (traditionally)
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2920 - 2650 EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD |
2650-2152 EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM |
2150 -1986 FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
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1986 - 1759 MIDDLE KINGDOM |
1759 - 1539 SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD |
1539 - 1069 New Kingdom |
1070 - 657 THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD |
664 - 332 LATE PERIOD |
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332 Ptolemaic Egypt (Alexandar the Great got it) |
32 ROMAN EMPIRE |
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672-525 26th Dynasty
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| 404-380 28&29th Dynasty
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380-343 30th Dynasty |
343-332 31st Dynasty |
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Greece
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3000 - 1100 GREEK BRONZE AGE |
| 3000 - 1100 GREEK BRONZE AGE |
1100 - 800 GREEK DARK AGE |
800 - 500 GREEK ARCHAIC PERIOD |
| 500-400 GREEK CLASSIC PERIOD |
400-330 Late Classic Period
| 330 - 30 GREEK HELLENISTIC AGE |
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GREECE
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1200 Trojan War |
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800 - 700 Composition of Iliad and Odyssey |
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657 Byzantium(later Constantinople) founded by sailors from Megara |
632 Monarchy in Athens replaced by the Council of Areopagus,
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590/580 to 560/550
Sparta fights war with Tegea resulting in alliance |
PERSIANS |
500-450 Persian Wars |
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431 Peloponnesian War |
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395-387 Corinthian War |
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Alexandar the Great |
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168 defeat of king Perseus by the Roman Aemilius Paullus |
146 Sack of Corinth by Romans
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Rome
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509 - 27 BC Roman Republic |
27 - ROMAN EMPIRE |
MEDE EMPIRE -2nd Half 7th century