9816408679 | 10,000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
9816408680 | 3,500 BCE | Sumer: River Valley Civilizations | 1 | |
9816408681 | 800 BCE - 200 BCE | Axial Age (Some Religions/ Philosophies Created - Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Greek philosophy) | 2 | |
9816408682 | 600 BCE - 600 CE | Classical Era: Greece, Rome, Qin and Han, Mauryan and Gupta, Persia, and Maya | 3 | |
9816408683 | 0(ish) CE | Jesus, Beginning of Christianity | 4 | |
9816408684 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome, Move to Middle Ages | 5 | |
9816408685 | 600 CE | Beginning of Islam, Byzantine Empire Starts | 6 | |
9816408686 | 1095 CE | First Crusade | 7 | |
9816408687 | 1258 CE | Mongols Defeat Abbasids at Baghdad (Persia) | 8 | |
9816408688 | 1433 CE | Zheng He Called Back (by Ming) | 9 | |
9816408689 | 1453 CE | Ottomans Defeat Byzantine at Constantinople | 10 | |
9816408690 | 1492 CE | Americas Discovered (Columbus) | 11 | |
9816408691 | 1600 CE | Turning Point (STARJOQD) Spanish Armada (navy) defeated by British Tokugawa shogunate starts Akbar (Mughals in India) Romanovs take power in Russia (czars) - Peter the Great in 1721) Jamestown colony starts in Americas (British colonies in Americas) Ottoman decline Qing dynasty starts Great Dying in the Americas - demographic disaster | 12 | |
9816408692 | 1750 CE | Industrial Revolution Begins | 13 | |
9816408693 | 1789 CE | French Revolution Begins | 14 | |
9816408694 | 1825 CE | Latin America Independent (All Revolutions Done) | 15 | |
9816408695 | 1870 CE | Second Industrial Revolution | 16 | |
9905139663 | 1914 CE | World War I begins | 17 | |
9905141349 | 1918 CE | Treaty of Versailles (end of WWI) | 18 | |
9905142636 | 1939 CE | World War II starts - Germany invades Poland | 19 | |
9905143495 | 1945 CE | World War II ends - U.S. drops nuclear bombs on Japan, Cold War starts | 20 | |
9954714059 | 1989 CE | Tienanmen Square Massacre; Microsoft Windows; End of USSR; Fall of Berlin Wall | 21 |
Important Dates for AP World History Flashcards
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