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1860713928000 B.C.EBeginnings of agriculture0
1860713935th Century B.C.EGreek Golden Age - philosophers1
186071394323 B.C.EAlexander the great2
186071395221 B.C.EQin unified china; Great Wall started to be built by Qin3
18607139632 C.EBeginnings of Christianity4
186071397180end of Pax Romana5
186071398220end of Han Dynasty6
186071399333Roman capital moved to Constantinople7
186071400476the fall of the Roman Empire, the eastern Roman Empire becomes known as the Byzantine Empire8
186071401527Justinian's rule of Byzantine Empire (tries to restore old Roman order)9
186071402622Muhammad's pilgrimage to Medina; begins the Muslim calendar (founded Islam as an official religion)10
186071403732Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move in France)11
1860714041054Great Schism in the Christian Church- Christianity split into Roman Catholicism and Christian Orthodox12
1860714051066Norman conquest of England13
1860714061071Battle of Manzikert- Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire14
1860714071095Pope Urban II started the Crusades; sent Catholic warriors to possess holy city of Jerusalem15
1860714081258Mongols sack Baghdad; caliphate is killed; marks the end of the Abbasid Caliphate16
1860714091271-1295Marco Polo's travels17
1860714101324Mansa Musa's pilgrimage18
1860714111325-1349Ibn Battuta's travels (kept journals to document travels, later used as primary sources)19
1860714121347-1348Bubonic/Black Plague; kills 1/3 of Europe's population20
1860714131433End of Zheng He's voyages for China because of Emperor Yongle's death; Rise of the Ottoman Empire21
1860714141453Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks (muslims from Anatolia)22
1860714151488Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope (Africa) for Portugal23
1860714161492Columbus sailed to America/ Reconquista of Spain24
1860714171502First shipment of slaves to the Caribbean25
1860714181517Martin Luther writes and nails "95 Theses" which criticized the Catholic Church; beginning of the Protestant Reformation26
1860714191521Hernando Cortez conquers the Aztecs27
1860714201533Pizarro toppled the Inca28
1860714211545Discovery of silver at Potosi29
1860714221571Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of the Ottoman Turks30
1860714231588British defeat of the Spanish Armada31
1860714241600Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate32
1860714251607Founding of Jamestown by the English (first slaves arrived there in 1619)33
1860714261618-1648The Thirty Years War takes place in Europe with fierce fighting between Catholics and Protestants34
1860714271683unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna35
1860714281689Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights36

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