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__**ROCKS TO ROMANS -TIMELINE (Part 1) :)**__

Neanderthal (use of fire and "advanced" tools)
 * 70,000 B.C. -**

Neanderthal replaced with groups of Homo Sapiens
 * 35,000 B.C. -**

Migrations into the Americas
 * 15,000 B.C. -**

Development of settlements in cities and of skill (the wheel, pottery, and improved methods of cultivation) in Mesopotamia (and other places).
 * 10,000- 4,000 B.C. -**

Predynastic Egyptian cultures develop
 * 5500-3100 B.C. -**

Started using Agriculture
 * 5000 B.C. -**

Earliest known civilization arises
 * 4500-4000 B.C. -**

Pharaonic rule begins in Egypt (King Khufu) 4th dynasty completes the construction of the Great Pyramid in Giza
 * 2700- 2675 B.C. -**

Hyksos invaders drive Egyptians from the lower part of Egypt. Amosis I frees Egyptians from Hyksos. Assyrians rise to power. 24 character alphabet in Egypt.
 * 2000-1500 B.C. -**

Ikhnaton develops monotheistic religion in Egypt. Greeks destroy Troy. End of Greek civilization in Mycenae from invasion of Dorians
 * 1500-1000 B.C. -**

Phoenicians establish Carthage. The Iliad & Odyssey perhaps created by Greek poet Homer.
 * 900-800 B.C. -**

Earliest written music
 * 800-700 B.C. -**

End of Assyrian Empire. Building of the Acropolis in Athens
 * 700-600 B.C. -**

Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar builds an empire, destroys Jerusalem. Cyrus the Great of Persia creates empire and conquers Babylon. Athenian democracy developed.
 * 600-500 B.C. -**

Rome defeats the Carthaginians and begins domination of the Mediterranean.
 * 300-251 B.C. -**

Romans defeat King Antiochus III at Thermopylae. The beginning of Roman world domination
 * 200-151 B.C. -**

__**ROCKS TO ROMANS (PART 2)**__

- Monetary trouble - Military Problems - Imperial incompetence - Chance - The rise of Islam - Growing crisis of leadership - Lead/Lead Poisoning
 * What factors led to the fall of Rome?**
 * -** Christianity