History- AD or BC #2

1. Cleopatra becomes pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt

2. The first crusaders sail to Jerusalem to reclaim the Holy Land

3. The Peloponnesian war wages the city states of Athens vs Sparta

4. Pharaoh Khufu commissions the building of the Great Pyramid

5. Yu the Great founded Chinas first dynasty, the Xia

6. The nomadic Huns terrorize eastern Europe

7. Emperor Constantine becomes the first Roman ruler to convert to Christianity

8. Stonehenge is constructed by Neolithic people from Britain

9. Chichen Itza is built by the Mayan people of Mexico

10. Spanish forces capture king Atahualpa to conquer the Incan empire

11. Homer writes the epic Odyssey and Iliad in his native Greek

12. George Washingtons' Continental Army surrounds the British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown

13. Brothers Remus and Romulus establish the city of Rome

14. Genghis Khan conquers China under Mongol rule

15. Marco Polo sets out from Venice on a journey to Asia

16. Greece is the site of the first recorded Olympic games

17. Frankish king Charlemagne defeats the Lombards to control northern Italy

18. The Dutch establish Batavia in the Dutch West Indies, now the site of Jakarta

19. Siddhartha Gautama, aka Buddha, is born in Nepal

20. Gold is discovered in California, causing a massive influx of settlers