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The best-known person in Egypt's history becomes pharoah at the age of 8.	Ay, an "advisor," is the power behind the throne when Tutankhamun becomes Pharaoh in 1334 BCE at the age of 8 and agrees to return the Egyptian capital to Thebes.	67%
This legendary king's adventures are the subject of the world’s oldest surviving literary text,	In 1700 BCE, the Epic of Gilgamesh describes a king who lived in Uruk (southern Iraq) 800 years before.	67%
For 3800 years, this monolith is the world's tallest structure.	King Kufu's burial tomb, the Great Pyramid at Giza, is completed in 2560 BCE.	50%
George Gamow (1940s), Aleksandr Friedman (1920s), and George LeMaitre (1920s), developed this account of the origin of the universe based in part on Einstein's theory of relativity.	13.8 BYA: the Big Bang	33%
Discovered at the Ledi-Geraru research site in Ethiopia’s Awash River valley in 2013, a jawbone is the oldest fossil specimen attributed to this primate genus.	2.8 MYA, the primate genus Homo emerges.in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania	17%
Discovered near Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, skull fragments, a jawbone, and stone tools are the oldest known remains of this species.	315 KYA, the first anatomically modern humans--Homo Sapiens--leave tools behind in Morocco.	17%
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune begin orbiting the sun.	4.5 BYA, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune--8 planets begin orbiting the Sun.	17%
The first animals are members of this phylum, which includes the corals, hydras, jellyfish, Portuguese men-of-war, sea anemones, sea pens, sea whips, and sea fans.	635 MYA, algae stimulates cells that take on separate functions and work together as a single organism: an anima--from the cnidaria phylum.	17%
Near Puente Viesgo in Cantabria (Spain) and Hohle Fels cave in Baden-Wurtenberg (Germany), Ice Age innovators create something unprecedented in world history.	Art: 39 KYA, artists begin creating paintings (at El Castillo cave in Spain), and 36 KYA they create sculptures (left behind in Hohle Fels cave in Germany).	17%
Some of the first adopters of this transformative technology emerged near the end of the Ice Age in southwest Asia.	Farming: around 14.5 KYA, hunters and gatherers begin turning their stone-tipped spears into ploughs.	17%
The earliest writing system in the world was created by merchants and administrators in this nation.	In Sumer (southern Iraq),the earliest writing system in the world was created around 3000 BCE.	17%
Near this town in the Yucatan peninsula is the site of an aseteroid strike that caused global destruction.	Near Chicxulub, Mexico, an aseteroid strike causes global destruction in 65 MYA	17%
When the population of this city reaches 10,000, it may be the largest city in the world.	When its population reaches 10,000 in 3500 BCE, Uruk, in Sumeria (modern Iraq), becomes one of the largest cities in the world.	17%
When the population of this city reaches 60,000, it may be the largest city in the world.	When its population reaches 60,000 in in 2000 BCE, Memphis becomes one of the largest cities in the world.	17%
There are 300 billion stars in this galaxy	13 BYA: the Milky Way	0%
This celestial orb accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.	4.6 BYA, the Sun forms.	0%
Civilization is reshaped by the development of agricultural economies in the valleys of these five rivers.	Civilization is reshaped by the development of agricultural economies in the valleys of the Tigris, the Euphrates,the Nile, the Indus and the Huang He rivers between 5000 and 500 BCE.	0%
When the population of this city reaches 75,000, it may be the the largest cities in the world.	The population of Thebes reaches 75,000 in 1500 BCE making it one of the largest cities in the world.	0%

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