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Agricultural Revolution
First cities and kingdoms
Writing and bureaucracy
Bronze Age city-states and trade networks
Akkadian Empire (Sargon)
Bronze Age “international order”
Late Bronze Age collapse
Iron Age kingdoms and expansion
Greek city-states and public debate
Roman Republic
Coinage becomes common
Persian imperial order
Buddhism
Hellenistic world
Han Dynasty
Roman imperial order (Mediterranean world)
Christianity
Gupta Empire
Byzantine Empire
Islam
Abbasid Caliphate and translation-era scholarship
Viking Age
Mongol Empire
Renaissance
Tudor Rule
Scientific Revolution
Baroque arts and spectacle
Edo (Tokugawa) Period
Enlightenment
French Revolution
Napoleonic Wars
Industrialization and the rise of the modern state-market world
Mass production, electricity, and fossil-fuel acceleration
Modernism
World War I
World War II
Cold War
Postmodernism
Internet Era
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