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c. 1 CE
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Meroë Lion Temple at Naqa (Sudan)
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5
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Roman
poet Ovid’sMetamorphoses
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c. 50
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Northern India: Mathura art
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c. 67
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Golden House, Nero’s Palace, built in Rome
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c. 75
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Jesus’ apostles
write Gospels
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c. 80
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Colosseum in Rome
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c. 100
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Buddhism spreads to China
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c. 100
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Juvenal’sSatires
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c. 110
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Tacitus’s Roman histories
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c. 118
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Domed Pantheon completed in
Rome
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121
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Hadrian’s Wall built in Britain as Roman
border
|
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c. 150
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Earliest Sanskrit in India
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c. 150
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Sun Temple built at Teotihuacán (Mexico)
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c. 175
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Marcus Aurelius’sMeditations
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205–270
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Roman philosopher Plotinus
leads Neoplatonism
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c. 216
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Baths of Caracalla built in Rome
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216–276
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Persian philosopher Mani
founds Manichaeism
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c. 250
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Persecution of Christians in Roman Empire
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c. 260
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Royal Palace of Taq-i-Kisra in Baghdad
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325
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Council of Nicea establishes Christian
doctrine
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c. 330
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Roman Empire adopts Christianity as state religion
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347–420
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St. Jerome, translator of Bible into
Latin
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c. 380
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Ambrose
develops plainsong music
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c. 397
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St. Augustine’sConfessions
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c. 400
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India: Art flourishes in Gupta
period
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|
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c. 411
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Augustine’s City of God
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c. 475
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Early Shinto shrines in Japan
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480–524
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Boethius, translator of Aristotle into Latin
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499
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Roman Synod’s decree on election of popes
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529
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Benedictine order founded
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c. 530
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Justinian legal code (Codex
Justinianus)
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537
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Hagia Sophia completed
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540
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Early Welsh poets
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550
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Buddhism introduced in Japan
|
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c. 550
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Cassiodorus amasses collection of Greek and Latin
manuscripts
|
|
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570–632
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Life of Muhammad
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585
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Horyuji Temple built in Japan
|
|
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c. 600
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Development of Gregorian
chant
|
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600
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First printed books in China
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610–635
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Qur’an compiled
|
|
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618
|
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Development of public bureaucracy in
China
|
|
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622
|
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Muhammad’s flight marks first year of Islamic
calendar
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641
|
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Alexandria: Great Library destroyed in fire
|
|
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650
|
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Wood block prints in China
|
|
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695
|
|
Jews persecuted in Spain
|
|
|
700
|
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Arabs ban use of Greek language
|
|
|
c. 700
|
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Woven tapestries in Peru
|
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701–762
|
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Chinese poet Li Po
|
|
|
c. 710
|
|
Great Mosque built in Damascus
|
|
|
726–843
|
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Iconoclasm period in Byzantine
Empire
|
|
|
c. 750
|
|
Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf put in written
form
|
|
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c. 750
|
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America: Pueblo period architecture
|
|
|
c. 750
|
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Tamil language developed in southern
India
|
|
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765
|
|
Kasuga Shrine built in Japan
|
|
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780
|
|
India: Birth of Sankara
|
|
|
c. 800
|
|
Korean culture flourishes
|
|
|
c. 820
|
|
Old French divides from Latin
|
|
|
840
|
|
Christian doctrine
of transubstantiation
|
|
|
845
|
|
Chinese state returns to Confucianism, bans Buddhism
|
|
|
853
|
|
Japanese painter Kundara Kuwanari dies
|
|
|
c. 850
|
|
Polyphonic music developed
|
|
|
c. 860
|
|
Cyrillic alphabet developed
|
|
|
895
|
|
Oldest surviving Old Testament in Hebrew
produced
|
|
|
c. 900
|
|
Thousand and One Nights written in
Arabia
|
|
|
c. 925
|
|
Japanese empire anthologizes poetry in Kokinshu
|
|
|
936
|
|
Beginning of Ottonian architecture
|
|
|
940–1020
|
|
Persian poet Firdasi
|
|
|
960
|
|
Music introduced into Chinese drama
|
|
|
972
|
|
University founded at Cairo
|
|
|
978–1014
|
|
Female Japanese author Murasaki
Shikibu’sTale of Genji
|
|
|
990
|
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Early musical notation
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