9779109425 | 1500 BCE | Beginning of Hinduism in India | 0 | |
9779109426 | 500 BCE | Beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism | 1 | |
9779112192 | 480-404 BCE | Golden age of Athens, Greece | 2 | |
9779112193 | 500-44 BCE | Roman republic | 3 | |
9779115447 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 4 | |
9779115448 | 221 BCE | Qin unifies China | 5 | |
9779129381 | 200 BCE - 220 CE | Han dynasty in China | 6 | |
9779129382 | 333 CE | Roman capital splits into Constantinople | 7 | |
9779129383 | 44 BCE | Roman empire | 8 | |
9779132517 | 32 CE | Beginning of Christianity | 9 | |
9779132561 | 476-1000ish | Dark ages/medieval period | 10 | |
9779136817 | 527 | Justinians rule of Byzantine Empire | 11 | |
9779136818 | 589-618 | Sui dynasty and return of centralized rule to China | 12 | |
9779140491 | 622 BCE | Founding of Islam | 13 | |
9779158915 | 732 | Battle of Tours (and Muslim move into France) | 14 | |
9779164203 | 750-1250 | Tang and Song Dynasty oversee Chinas "economic and commercial revolution" | 15 | |
9779174607 | 750-1258 | Abbasid dynasty (Islanmic golden age/ capital of Baghdad) | 16 | |
9779174608 | 790-1100 | Rise of the Vikings | 17 | |
9779177973 | 800 | Charlemagnes coronation | 18 | |
9779177974 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | 19 | |
9779181109 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 20 | |
9779181110 | 1095 | Beginning of Crusades | 21 | |
9779181111 | 1200 | Rise of the Mongols (silk roads revitalizes, etc.) | 22 | |
9779185377 | 1215 | Magna Carta signed (one of the first constitutions) | 23 | |
9779185378 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad/ end of Abbasid dynasty and golden age | 24 | |
9779189837 | 1271-1295 | Travels of Marco Polo | 25 | |
9779189838 | 1324 | Mansa Musas (Mali Empire) pilgrimage (hajj) | 26 | |
9779195369 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 27 | |
9779195370 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 28 | |
9779199187 | 1400 | Renaissance (1400ish-1650) begins to formulate in northern Italy | 29 | |
9779206530 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's Ming Dynasty voyages/ rise of Ottomans | 30 | |
9779407696 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople (Istanbul)/ Ottoman Empire Formed | 31 | |
9779407697 | 1492 | Columbus sail the ocean blue/ Columbian Exchange begins/ Reconquista of Spain | 32 | |
9779411199 | 1494 | Treaty of tordesillas and division of new world | 33 | |
9779414176 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ 95 thesis (Protestant reformation) | 34 | |
9779414177 | 1521 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 35 | |
9779417338 | 1543 | Copernicus publishes Celestial Spheres (1543-1700s, roughly, the start of the scientific revolution) | 36 | |
9779417339 | 1600 | Japan unified under the towugawa shogunate | 37 | |
9779493995 | 1607 | Establishment of Jamestown amd the British colonies in the Americas (east India company/ joint stock company) | 38 | |
9779501233 | 1633 | Japan's closed door policy begins | 39 | |
9779504448 | 1650-1800s | Age of Enlightenment/ reason in Europe | 40 | |
9779504449 | 1750 | Industrial revolution begins in England | 41 | |
9779507334 | 1789 | French Revolution | 42 | |
9779507335 | 1821 | Mexican independence (not revolution) | 43 | |
9779507336 | 1823 | Monroe doctrine | 44 | |
9779511680 | 1839-1842 | Opium war in China (imperial aggression by British to reverse flow of silver/bullion into China, as part of economic policy of mercantilism) | 45 | |
9779511681 | 1853 | Commodore perry/ USA open Japan | 46 | |
9779517766 | 1861 | Serfdom abolishes in Russia | 47 | |
9779584114 | 1871 | Germany unified under Bismarck | 48 | |
9779588982 | 1885 | Berlin conference -imperialism and the "scramble for Africa" | 49 | |
9779589183 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 50 | |
9779594087 | 1914-1918 | WWI ( Panama Canal completeled in 1914) | 51 | |
9779594088 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 52 | |
9779599704 | 1939-1945 | WWII | 53 | |
9779599705 | 1947 | Truman doctrine/ Cold War begins ('49-'91), India/ Pakistan partition | 54 | |
9779605361 | 1948 | Israel founded/ Gandhi assassinated | 55 | |
9779605362 | 1949 | Peoples republic of China established | 56 | |
9779610209 | 1962 | Cuban missile crisis (cold was era 1945-1991) | 57 | |
9779613897 | 1979 | Iranian revolution (rise of Islam, jihad, etc.) | 58 | |
9779613898 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square/ Fall of Berlin Wall | 59 | |
9779617691 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 60 | |
9779745399 | World regions- a big picture view | ![]() | 61 | |
9779745400 | World regions- a closer look | ![]() | 62 |
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