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| Cleisthenes establishes Greek Democracy |
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| Greeks defeat Persians at battle of Salamis |
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| Aeschylus completes the Oresteia |
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| Pericles' funeral oration |
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| Alexander the great conquers egypt |
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| Ptolemy Soter becomes pharaoh of Egypt after Alexanders death |
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| Lighthouse at alexandria built |
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| 2nd punic war between rome and carthage |
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| Romans conquer most of Greece |
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| Virgil's annoyed almost complete by time of his death |
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| Luke and Acts written, possibly by Luke |
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| Reign of Diocletian both restores empire and unleashes greatest persecution of Christians in parts of the empire |
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| Constantine issues Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity |
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| Council of Nicaea, first of great church councils, condemns Arian teachings |
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| Augustine writes his Confessions, about ten years after his conversion |
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| Rome sacked by Alaric the Visigoth, shocking what's left of the Roman world |
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| Life of St. Francis of Assisi |
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| Aquinas finishes the Summa theologica |
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| Dante Alighieri begins writing The Divine Comedy |
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| Black Death kills roughly a third of the population of Europe |
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| Great Schism, during which there were two, even three, popes at the same time |
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