6820043844 | Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations | 8000 BCE- 600 CE | 0 | |
6820043845 | Beginnings of agriculture | 8000 B.C.E. | 1 | |
6820043846 | Beginnings of Bronze Age - Early Civilizations | 3000 B.C.E. | 2 | |
6820043847 | Iron Age | 1300 B.C.E. | 3 | |
6820043848 | Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies | 600 BCE - 600 CE | 4 | |
6820043849 | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim) | 6th century B.C.E. | 5 | |
6820043850 | Greek Golden Age - philosophers. | 5th C B.C.E. | 6 | |
6820043851 | Alexander the Great | 323 B.C.E. | 7 | |
6820043852 | Qin unified China | 221 B.C.E. | 8 | |
6820043853 | Beginnings of Christianity | 32 C.E. | 9 | |
6820043854 | end of Pax Romana | 180 C.E. | 10 | |
6820043855 | end of Han Dynasty | 220 C.E. | 11 | |
6820043856 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 333 | 12 | |
6820043857 | Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 4th century C.E. | ![]() | 13 |
6820043858 | Fall of Rome | 476 | ![]() | 14 |
6820043859 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 | ![]() | 15 |
6820043860 | Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions | 600 CE -1450 | 16 | |
6820043861 | Founding of Islam | 622 | ![]() | 17 |
6820043862 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 732 | ![]() | 18 |
6820043863 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) | 1054 | ![]() | 19 |
6820043864 | 1st Crusade | 1095 | ![]() | 20 |
6820043865 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 | ![]() | 21 |
6820043866 | Marco Polo travels | 1271-1295 | ![]() | 22 |
6820043867 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 1324 | ![]() | 23 |
6820043868 | travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 | ![]() | 24 |
6820043869 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 1347-1348 | ![]() | 25 |
6820043870 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 1433 | ![]() | 26 |
6820043871 | Period 4: Global Interactions | 1450 CE - 1750 | 27 | |
6820043872 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | ![]() | 28 |
6820043873 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 1488 | ![]() | 29 |
6820043874 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain | 1492 | ![]() | 30 |
6820043875 | 1st Slaves to Americas | 1502 | ![]() | 31 |
6820043876 | Martin Luther/95 theses | 1517 | ![]() | 32 |
6820043877 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 1521 | ![]() | 33 |
6820043878 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 1533 | ![]() | 34 |
6820043879 | 30 years war | 1618-1648 | ![]() | 35 |
6820043880 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 1689 | ![]() | 36 |
6820043881 | Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration | 1750 CE - 1900 | 37 | |
6820043882 | Industrial Revolution | 1750-1914 | ![]() | 38 |
6820043883 | 7 Year's War/French and Indian War | 1756-1763 | ![]() | 39 |
6820043884 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 1776 | ![]() | 40 |
6820043885 | French Revolution | 1789 | ![]() | 41 |
6820043886 | Haitian independence | 1804 | ![]() | 42 |
6820043887 | Congress of Vienna | 1815 | ![]() | 43 |
6820043888 | Independence in Latin America | 1820s | ![]() | 44 |
6820043889 | 1st opium war in China | 1839 | ![]() | 45 |
6820043890 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 1848 | ![]() | 46 |
6820043891 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 1853 | ![]() | 47 |
6820043892 | Sepoy Mutiny | 1857 | ![]() | 48 |
6820043893 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification | 1861 | ![]() | 49 |
6820043894 | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 1863 | ![]() | 50 |
6820043895 | German unification | 1871 | ![]() | 51 |
6820043896 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 1885 | ![]() | 52 |
6820043897 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 1898 | ![]() | 53 |
6820043898 | Boer War-British in control of South Africa | 1899 | ![]() | 54 |
6820043899 | Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments | 1900 CE - Present | 55 | |
6820043900 | Russo-Japanese war | 1905 | ![]() | 56 |
6820043901 | Mexican Revolution | 1910-1920 | ![]() | 57 |
6820043902 | Chinese Revolution | 1911 | ![]() | 58 |
6820043903 | WWI | 1914-1918 | ![]() | 59 |
6820043904 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | ![]() | 60 |
6820043905 | Treaty of Versailles-end of WWI | 1919 | ![]() | 61 |
6820043906 | stock market crash | 1929 | ![]() | 62 |
6820043907 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 1931 | ![]() | 63 |
6820043908 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 1935 | ![]() | 64 |
6820043909 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 1939 | ![]() | 65 |
6820043910 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 1941 | ![]() | 66 |
6820043911 | end of WWII | 1945 | ![]() | 67 |
6820043912 | independence & partition of India | 1947 | ![]() | 68 |
6820043913 | birth of Israel | 1948 | ![]() | 69 |
6820043914 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | ![]() | 70 |
6820043915 | Korean War | 1950-1953 | ![]() | 71 |
6820043916 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 1954 | ![]() | 72 |
6820043917 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 1956 | ![]() | 73 |
6820043918 | Cuban Revolution | 1959 | ![]() | 74 |
6820043919 | Cuban missile crisis | 1962 | ![]() | 75 |
6820043920 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution | 1967 | ![]() | 76 |
6820043921 | Yom Kippur war | 1973 | ![]() | 77 |
6820043922 | Iranian Revolution | 1979 | ![]() | 78 |
6820043923 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 1987 | ![]() | 79 |
6820043924 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall | 1989 | ![]() | 80 |
6820043925 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war | 1991 | ![]() | 81 |
6820043926 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa | 1994 | ![]() | 82 |
6820043927 | 9/11 Attacks | 2001 | ![]() | 83 |
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