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EVENTWestern Mediterranean
264 to 146 BCE

The Punic Wars

Western Mediterranean

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EVENTAthens, Greece
508 to 322 BCE

The Rise of Athenian Democracy

Athens, Greece

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EVENTAttica, Greece
490 BCE

The Battle of Marathon

Attica, Greece

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EVENTRome
44 BCE

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Rome

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BOOKAncient World

The Peloponnesian War

by Donald Kagan

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EVENTBabylon, Mesopotamia
c. 1754 BCE

The Code of Hammurabi

Babylon, Mesopotamia

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EVENTGiza, Egypt
c. 2560 BCE

The Building of the Great Pyramid

Giza, Egypt

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EVENTGreece, Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia
336 to 323 BCE

The Conquests of Alexander the Great

Greece, Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia

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EVENTSouth Asia
c. 268 to 232 BCE

The Reign of Ashoka

South Asia

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EVENTChina
230 to 221 BCE

The Qin Unification of China

China

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BOOKAncient World

The Fall of the Roman Empire

by Peter Heather

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BOOKAncient World

Persian Fire

by Tom Holland

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BOOKAncient World

SPQR: How Rome Argued Itself Into Existence

by Mary Beard

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EVENTRoman Italy (Bay of Naples)
79 CE

Pompeii and the Eruption of Vesuvius

Roman Italy (Bay of Naples)

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