***TECH TREE(well, not really)***: Civilizations

[Yuvo]

Hi, now we're trying to find the start dates for all the civ2 civilizations:

Civilizations:
[list][*]Romans:509 B.C.==Yuvo[*]Babylonians:[*]Germans:[*]Egyptians:5500 B.C-The written history of Egypt began at 2925 BC, but the Egyptian tribes dates back much more. The predynistic era define the first 'egyptian' tribes ( Tasian & Badarian ) to somewhere in the vicinity of 5500 BC.==Harel, 3200 B.C.-Upper and lower kingdoms united in 3200 B.C.==Yuvo
[*]Americans:[*]Greeks:[*]Indians:[*]Russians:[*]Zulus:[*]French:[*]Aztecs:[*]Chinese:[*]English:[*]Mongols:[*]Celts:[*]Japanese:[*]Vikings:[*]Spanish:[*]Carthaginians:[*]Sioux:[*]Persians:

[This message has been edited by Yuvo (edited March 15, 2000).]

[yin26]

The Sioux: "Before the middle of the 17th century, the Santee Sioux lived in the area around Lake Superior, where they gathered wild rice and beans, hunted deer and buffalo, and speared fish from canoes. Prolonged and continual warfare with the Ojibwa drove the Santee into southern and western Minnesota; the Teton and Yankton divisions were forced permanently from Minnesota onto the Great Plains (in present North and South Dakota), where they ceased to carry on their traditional agricultural activity and adopted the Plains way of life, which centred on the nomadic hunting of buffalo and other big game."--Yin( http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/ar...9728+1,00.html )

Milestones: 1800-Present

• 1800: By early 19th century, the Great Sioux Nation dominates the northern Plains, an area including most of the Dakotas, northern Nebraska, eastern Wyoming, and southeastern Montana
  
• 1803: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France. The westward expansion that follows eventually leads to depletion of the buffalo, an animal central to the Lakota way of life.
  
• 1866-68: Red Cloud leads the successful fight to close off the Bozeman Trail, a pass leading to the gold mines of Montana. The trail crosses over the traditional hunting grounds of the Teton.
  
• 1868: The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 establishes the Great Sioux Reservation, encompassing most of present-day South Dakota west of the Missouri River, including the Black Hills. The U.S. Government pledges to keep whites out of this territory.
  
• 1874: An expedition led by Lt. Col. George A. Custer discovers gold in the Black Hills, sending a rush of prospectors to the area. As more and more whites enter the area, the Indian people defend their homes and way of life.
  
• 1876: On June 25, Custer attacks a large Indian encampment. Sitting Bull, Gall, Crazy Horse, and several Cheyenne leaders defeat Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Custer loses his entire command of more than 200 men in the battle.
  
• 1889: An act by the U.S. Congress in March 1889 splits the Great Sioux Reservation into six smaller reservations. Some of the tribes begin performing the Ghost Dance, a religious ceremony thought to extinguish the whites, return the buffalo, and the former way of life. South Dakota is admitted to the union in November.
  
• 1890: Sitting Bull is murdered on the Standing Rock Reservation. Following this event, Big Foot and his Mnikowoju band flee to Pine Ridge to seek protection under Red Cloud. More than 250 members of Big Foot's band are massacred by the 7th Cavalry on Dec. 29 at Wounded Knee. The event is often described as the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the Great Sioux Nation.
  
• 1924: The Citizenship Act of 1924 naturalizes Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States.
  
• 1934: The Indian Reorganization Act recognizes tribal governments as sovereign nations.
  
• 1973: Members of the American Indian Movement seize the village of Wounded Knee and occupy it for 71 days.
  
• 1990: South Dakota Governor George S. Mickelson and representatives of the state's nine tribal governments proclaim 1990 a Year of Reconciliation. A Century of Reconciliation is declared in 1991.

[Harel]

Egyptians: The written history of Egypt began at 2925 BC, but the Egyptian tribes dates back much more. The predynistic era define the first 'egyptian' tribes ( Tasian & Badarian ) to somewhere in the vicinity of 5500 BC.

[Yuvo]

I've updated it and added some of my own

Yin: Were you going to put it in the master list?

[yin26]

As soon as this is finished, it goes right in.