AP World History
Ms. Woodmore
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| 4237347349 | 8000 B.C.E. | Neolithic Revolution (Agricultural Revolution & the Domestication of Plants) | 0 | |
| 4237347350 | 3000 B.C.E. | Beginning of Bronze Age (beginning of "civilization" in Sumer) | 1 | |
| 4237347351 | c. 1500-500 B.C.E. | Vedic Age in India (beginning of India's cultural foundation - caste system, jati, etc...) | 2 | |
| 4237347352 | 1300 B.C.E. | Iron Age (empires such as the Hittites) | 3 | |
| 4237347353 | 6th century B.C.E. | Life of Buddha in India | 4 | |
| 4237347354 | 6th century B.C.E. | Hundred Schools Era (Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Han Fei) | 5 | |
| 4237347355 | 5th century B.C.E. | Golden Age of Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pericles, Athenian Empire, Delian League) | 6 | |
| 4237347356 | 323 B.C.E. | Alexander the Great | 7 | |
| 4237347357 | c. 323 B.C.E. | Beginning of Mauryan Dynasty in India (Chandragupta & Kautilya) | 8 | |
| 4237347358 | 3rd century B.C.E. | Asoka, Buddhism becomes popular | 9 | |
| 4237347359 | 3rd century B.C.E. | Roman Republic | 10 | |
| 4237347360 | 221 B.C.E. | Qin Dynasty (Shi Huangdi, legalism) | 11 | |
| 4237347361 | 32 | Beginning of Christianity, death of Jesus | 12 | |
| 4237347362 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 13 | |
| 4237347363 | 220 | Collapse of Han China, followed by Buddhism becoming popular in China | 14 | |
| 4237347364 | 312 | Edict of Milan (first law protecting religious freedom) | 15 | |
| 4237347365 | 333 | Roman capital moved east to Constantinople | 16 | |
| 4237347366 | 4th century | Domestication of the Camel; 2 new trade routes established (Trans-Sahara & Trans-Arabia) meaning Afro-Eurasia is completely connected with five trade routes (Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, the Silk Roads, Trans-Sahara, Trans-Arabia) | 17 | |
| 4237347367 | 476 | official collapse of Rome in the West; beginning of European Middle Ages | 18 | |
| 4237347368 | 527 | Reign of Justinian (peak of the Byzantine empire) | 19 | |
| 4237347369 | 632 | beginning of Islam | 20 | |
| 4237347370 | 732 | Battle of Tours | 21 | |
| 4237347371 | 800 | Charlemagne, beginning of the Holy Roman Empire in Europe | 22 | |
| 4237347372 | 1054 | Great Schism | 23 | |
| 4237347373 | 1066 | Battle of Hastings and beginning of centralized government in England | 24 | |
| 4237347374 | 1095 | 1st Crusade | 25 | |
| 4237347375 | 1206 | Beginning of Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan | 26 | |
| 4237347376 | 1258 | Collapse of the Abbasid caliphate; Mongols conquer Baghdad (Tamerlane is the Mongol leader) | 27 | |
| 4237347377 | 1271-1295 | Travels of Marco | 28 | |
| 4237347378 | 1324 | Mansa Musa: Muslim King of Mali makes Timbuktu an intellectual center | 29 | |
| 4237347379 | 1345-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 30 | |
| 4237347380 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague hits Europe and wipes out 1/3 of the population | 31 | |
| 4237347381 | 1405 | Zheng He (Chinese Christopher Colombus) begins maritime exploration | 32 | |
| 4237347382 | 1433 | Ming China closes borders which leads to their isolation | 33 | |
| 4237347383 | c. 1450 | Collapse of Byzantine Empire; printing press developed in Europe; collapse of Great Zimbabwe in southeast Africa | 34 | |
| 4237347384 | 1130-1200 | Song Dynasty's Neo-Confucianism | 35 | |
| 4237347385 | c. 1600 | Japan closes borders (leaving only Nagasaki open, --> more strict than China, only open once a year to trade) | 36 | |
| 4237347386 | 1453 | Official end of the Byzantine empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire (goes from Orthodox Christian to Muslim); city of Constantinople ceases to exist/renamed Istanbul | 37 | |
| 4237347387 | 1488 | Beginning of European maritime exploration led by the Portuguese - Dias rounds the tip of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope) | 38 | |
| 4237347388 | 1492 | Columbus sails the ocean blue; Spanish expel the Moors | 39 | |
| 4237347389 | 1502 | First slaves travel to the Americas | 40 | |
| 4237347390 | 1517 | Protestant Reformation led by Martin Luther --> end of 1000 years of Christian unity in central and western Europe | 41 | |
| 4237347391 | 1521 | Cortes conquers the Americas | 42 | |
| 4237347392 | 1533 | Pizarro conquers the Incas | 43 | |
| 4237347393 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto between the Spanish (victor) and the Ottoman Empire; keeps the Ottomans out of the newly emerging trade routes of the Atlantic Ocean | 44 | |
| 4237347394 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada --> marks the end of the Spanish Empire and the beginning of the British empire; Shah Abbas, ruler of the Safavid Empire (Persians) during the peak time | 45 | |
| 4237347395 | c. 1600 | Japan is unified, beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate; beginning of 250 years of Japanese isolation | 46 | |
| 4237347396 | 1607 | Jamestown, first permanent English colony | 47 | |
| 4237347397 | 1618-1648 | Thirty Years War in Central Europe (religious, ended with the Treaty of Westphalia) | 48 | |
| 4237347398 | 1683 | Ottomans lay siege to Vienna (third movement of Islam into Europe) | 49 | |
| 4237347399 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution in England / English Bill of Rights --> unique constitutional monarchy | 50 | |
| 4237347400 | 1644 | Qing Dynasty | 51 | |
| 4237347401 | c. 1750 | Great Britain Industrializes | 52 | |
| 4237347402 | 1756 | Seven Years War (French & Indian War) - 3 continents, first global war | 53 | |
| 4237347403 | 1776 | American Revolution Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" (laissez faire economics replacing mercantilism; government does not interfere in economy) | 54 | |
| 4237347404 | 1789 | French Revolution | 55 | |
| 4237347405 | 1804 | Haitian Independence (Touissant Louverture) | 56 | |
| 4237347406 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna (post-Napoleonic Wars, reestablished traditional monarchies and the balance of power of Europe - successful until WWI) | 57 | |
| 4237347407 | 1820s | Independence movements in Latin America (Simon Bolivar) | 58 | |
| 4237347408 | 1839 | Opium Wars (end of Chinese dominance - concept of extraterritoriality) | 59 | |
| 4237347409 | 1848 | European revolutions; Marx's Communist Manifesto (proletariat - urban workers) | 60 | |
| 4237347410 | 1850 | Taiping Rebellion (deadliest civil war) | 61 | |
| 4237347411 | 1853 | Matthew Perry opens up Japan, ending Tokugawa Shogunate and beginning Japanese industrialization | 62 | |
| 4237347412 | 1861 | Russian ends serfdom (coerced labor) | 63 | |
| 4237347413 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation (U.S.) | 64 | |
| 4237347414 | 1871 | German Unification by Otto von Bismarck | 65 | |
| 4237347415 | 1885 | Berlin Conference - scramble for Africa - beginning of age of imperialism | 66 | |
| 4237347416 | 1898 | Spanish-American War; beginning of U.S. imperialism | 67 | |
| 4237347417 | 1899 | Boer War - British take control of South Africa & beginning of apartheid | 68 | |
| 4237347418 | 1900 | Boxer Rebellion | 69 | |
| 4237347419 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War After Japan's victory, they become the dominant power in Asia | 70 | |
| 4237347420 | 1910 | Mexican Revolution: constitution (land redistribution) | 71 | |
| 4237347421 | 1911 | Last CSE given in China | 72 | |
| 4237347422 | 1912 | Collapse of Qing Dynasty | 73 | |
| 4237347423 | 1914 | WWI starts | 74 | |
| 4237347424 | 1917 | Russian Revolution; Marxist ideas play out --> USSR | 75 | |
| 4237347425 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles ends WWI, May Fourth Movement (Chinese protest) | 76 | |
| 4237347426 | 1929 | U.S. stock market crash - global economic depression | 77 | |
| 4237347427 | 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria - beginning of WWII | 78 | |
| 4237347428 | 1945 | End of WWII | 79 | |
| 4237347429 | 1947 | Independence and Partition (bloody transition) of India (Pakistan) | 80 | |
| 4237347430 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 81 | |
| 4237347431 | 1949 | Creation of Communist China (Year 1 - Mao Ze Dong) | 82 | |
| 4237347432 | 1950 | Korean War (first U.N. action) | 83 | |
| 4237347433 | 1954 | French defeated in French Indochina (U.S. becomes involved with Vietnam) | 84 | |
| 4237347434 | 1989 | Fall of Berlin Wall | 85 | |
| 4237347435 | 1991 | Collapse of USSR; end of Cold War | 86 | |
| 4237347436 | 1993 | End of apartheid | 87 |
