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Neolithic Revolution
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10,000 BC – Shift from food gathering to food producing
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Development of Writing
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4000 BC – People began to keep inventories with clay tokens, eventually clay tablets with pictograms and then symbols for each phonetic sound
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Body of Civil Law
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529 CE – Justinian's code of Roman Laws that was the basis of imperial law in the Eastern Roman Empire and much of the legal system of Europe
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Agricultural Revolution of the Middle Ages
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1000 CE – Invention of the wheeled plow to pull horses without choking them – Wheelbarrow, harrow and watermills increased productivity
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Crusades
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1095 CE – Pope Urban II called on European Christians to free the Holy Land from the Muslim Turks. –Muslims and Christians persecuting each other leads to intolerance, continues today
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Black Death
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1347 CE – Killed approx. 40% European population – Peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350. – Suggested to have been brought to Europe by fleas on merchant ships from Asia. Killed approx. – 25-50 million people, but economic life improved for the survivors.
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The Great Schism
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1378 CE – Also called Western Schism, a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes reigned at Rome and Avignon
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Italian Renaissance
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14th century – This is the name given to the opening phase of the Renaissance that began in the late 14th century in Europe. – Period of intellectual learning, literature, art and culture
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Christopher Columbus Discovering America
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1492 CE – Italian explorer that discovered the New World under the funding of Spain. – Trying to sail west to reach India – He landed in the Bahamas and thought it was in India. – He named the land the West Indies. – This opened up North & South America and he claimed land for Spain
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Protestant Reformation
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1517 CE – Martin Luther's challenge to the Catholic Church calling for a return to what he understood to the purer practices and beliefs of the early church
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