Flash cards for every important event in APWH (ALL UNITS)
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| 8815291317 | c. 8000 BCE | Domestication of plants and animals (agriculture) began / Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
| 8815291318 | 3700 BCE | Cuneiform Writing used in Middle Eastern Mesopotamian civilization | 1 | |
| 8815291319 | 3000 BCE | Beginnings of the Bronze Age in Egyptian Kingdom and Mesopotamian city-states | 2 | |
| 8815291320 | 1500 BCE - 1000 BCE | Height of 1st Chinese dynasty Shang and beginning of the 2nd Chinese dynasty Zhou | 3 | |
| 8815291321 | 800 BCE | Beginning of Greek city-states in eastern Mediterranean - democracy & empiricism | 4 | |
| 8815291322 | 722 BCE | Assyrian conquest of Kingdom of Israel, first diaspora of Jews | 5 | |
| 8815291323 | 586 BCE | Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and First Temple. 2nd diaspora of Jews | 6 | |
| 8815291324 | 400s BCE | Activity of Buddha, Socrates, and Confucius (Chinese philosopher) | 7 | |
| 8815291325 | 300s BCE | Conquests by Macedonian King Alexander the Great | 8 | |
| 8815291326 | 30s BCE | Rule of Roman colony of Egypt by Macedonian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator | 9 | |
| 8815291327 | c. 32 CE | Rise of Christianity (religion) | 10 | |
| 8815291328 | 180 CE | Height of Roman Empire | 11 | |
| 8815291329 | 200 CE | End of Han 4th Chinese Dynasty | 12 | |
| 8815291330 | 319 CE | Rise of Gupta Empire in South Asia | 13 | |
| 8815291331 | 476 CE | Fall of the western part of the Roman Empire | 14 | |
| 8815291332 | 527 CE | Beginning of the Byzantine Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean region | 15 | |
| 8867001787 | 1400s CE | Use of chinampas for food production in Aztec Empire | 16 | |
| 8867001788 | 1340s CE | Bubonic Plague pandemic in Europe, Middle East, and North Africa | 17 | |
| 8867001789 | 1279 CE | Mongols conquered Song China and established the Yuan Dynasty | 18 | |
| 8867001790 | 1095 - c. 1200 CE | Crusades to the Holy Land by Christmas to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims | 19 | |
| 8894999216 | 1054 CE | Schism between Roman Catholic (Western Europe) and Greek Orthodox (Eastern Europe) | 20 | |
| 8894999217 | 1000 CE | Song Dynasty inventions: Compass, Paper money, gunpowder, assembly-line manufacturing | 21 | |
| 8894999218 | 900s CE | Demise of Mayan city-states in Central America | 22 | |
| 8894999219 | 751 CE | Battle of Talas River in Central Asia; Chinese hostages taken by Arab army, thereby spreading paper making to Middle East | 23 | |
| 8894999220 | 264 BCE | Mauryan Emperor Ashoka's conversion to Buddhism; Qin Dynasty | 24 | |
| 8894999221 | 300s CE | Roman Emperor Constatine's conversion to Christianity | 25 | |
| 8894999222 | 600s CE | Spread of Islam from Arabia to the Persian and Byzantine empires | 26 | |
| 8894999223 | 600s - 700s CE | Spread of Hindu Math (decimal point, Arabic numerals) to Mediterranean empires | 27 | |
| 8894999224 | 3500 BCE | Height of Mesopotamian civilization | 28 | |
| 9085006196 | c. 750 CE | The Abbasid Caliphate grew from the Umayyad Caliphate and based its capital in Baghdad. | 29 | |
| 9085006197 | c. 800 CE | Water-liftiing techniques and books on philosophy, mathematics, and arts written in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin were created in al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) | 30 | |
| 9085006198 | c. 500 - 900 CE | The kings of the Mayan City-States in Mesoamerica used bloodletting to pay homage to their gods | 31 | |
| 9085006199 | c. 600 - 900 CE | Chang'an, the primary capital of the Tang Dynasty was the model for Nara, the Japanese capital. | 32 | |
| 9085006200 | c. 800 - 1300 CE | The Normans (Norsemen, Vikings) settled outside of Scandinavia in northern France, Spain, and Sicily. | 33 | |
| 9085006201 | c. 1100 CE | The Crusades lasted for about two hundred years and involved fighting between Roman Catholic Knights and Muslim soldiers in the eastern Mediterranean region. | 34 | |
| 9085006202 | c. 1300's CE | Both the Mali Empire in West Africa in the Delhi Sultanate in South Asia based their political systems on Islamic political structures and administrative techniques. | 35 | |
| 9085006203 | 1274 - 1281 CE (Japan) ; 1293 CE (Java) | Due to the failure of the Mongol attacks, the Japanese and Javanese maintain sovereignty over their countries. | 36 | |
| 9085006204 | c. 1400's. CE | The economic and political power of Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa came from its export of gold and its immense stone palaces. | 37 | |
| 9085006205 | 1453 CE | Ottomans capture Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and renamed the city Istanbul. | 38 | |
| 9085006206 | 1498 CE | Portuguese Mariner, Vasco de Gama, attacked the Indian Port of Calicut. | 39 | |
| 9085006207 | 1521 CE | Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec empire for Spain; later Spanish conquistadors took over the other parts of Mexico. | 40 | |
| 9085006208 | 1500's - 1800's CE | Africans were forced to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean islands after the Portuguese Farmers had introduced sugar cultivation into Brazil. | 41 | |
| 9085006209 | 1570 CE | Ming Empire required that all taxes be paid in silver. | 42 | |
| 9085006210 | 1571 CE | Spain set up a colony in the Philippines for trans-Pacific trade from its colonies in the Americas. | 43 | |
| 9085006211 | 1600's CE | Serfdom in Eastern Europe and Russia increased | 44 | |
| 9085006212 | 1652 CE | Calvinist Dutch Farmers set up a colony in southern Africa near the Cape of Good Hope. | 45 | |
| 9296989366 | 1689 CE | John Locke published "Two Treaties on Government"; English Bill of Rights | 46 | |
| 9296989367 | 1750 CE | Beginning of Industrial Revolution - use of steam power in Great Britain | 47 | |
| 9296989368 | 1763 CE | Great Britain won the Seven Years War | 48 | |
| 9296989369 | 1776 CE | Adam Smith writes "Wealth of Nations"; American Revolution | 49 | |
| 9296989370 | 1789 CE | French Revolution | 50 | |
| 9296989371 | 1791 CE | Haitian Revolution | 51 | |
| 9296989372 | 1808 CE | British ended Atlantic Slave Trade | 52 | |
| 9296989373 | 1820 - 1830's CE | Resolution in Spanish America: Mexico, Argentina, etc. | 53 | |
| 9296989374 | 1823 CE | Monroe Doctrine declared US dominant power in the Americas | 54 | |
| 9296989375 | 1839 CE | 1st opium war between China and Great Britain | 55 | |
| 9296989376 | 1848 CE | USA won war with Mexico; Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto | 56 | |
| 9296989377 | 1853 CE | USA Admiral Perry forced Japan to trade with the USA | 57 | |
| 9296989378 | 1857 CE | Sepoy Rebellion; beginning of British Raj | 58 | |
| 9296989379 | 1859 CE | Publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" | 59 | |
| 9296989380 | 1860/1861 CE | End of Russian serfdom; abolition of slavery in USA | 60 | |
| 9296989381 | 1867 CE | End of Tokugawa; beginning of Meiji | 61 | |
| 9296989382 | 1869 CE | British and French company finishes the Suez Canal | 62 | |
| 9296989383 | 1870's CE | Unification of German & Italian states complete | 63 | |
| 9296989384 | 1885 CE | Berlin Conference divided African continent for Europeans | 64 | |
| 9296989385 | 1895 CE | Japan wins Sino-Japanese War | 65 | |
| 9296989386 | 1898 CE | USA wins Spanish-American War | 66 | |
| 9296989387 | 1905 CE | Japan wins Russo-Japanese War | 67 | |
| 9296989388 | 1910 - 1920 CE | Second Mexican Revolution | 68 | |
| 9296989389 | 1911 CE | End of Qing Dynasty; beginning of Chinese republic | 69 | |
| 9890993640 | 1915 CE | end of Ottoman Empire; creation of secular Republic of Turkey | 70 | |
| 9890993641 | 1917 CE | Russian Revolutions; Romanov Dynasty ended, USSR under Lenin | 71 | |
| 9890993642 | 1918 - 1919 CE | Influenza epidemic; Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations | 72 | |
| 9890993643 | 1929 CE | Global economy falters: crises & NY stock market crash | 73 | |
| 9890993644 | 1931 CE | Global economic Depression: Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 74 | |
| 9890993645 | 1935 CE | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 75 | |
| 9890993646 | 1937 CE | Japanese invasion of China: Non-Aggression Pact | 76 | |
| 9890993647 | 1939 CE | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 77 | |
| 9890993648 | 1941 CE | Pearl Harbor; US entry into WW2 | 78 | |
| 9890993649 | 1945 CE | use of atomic bombs; beginning of Cold War (NATO & Warsaw Pact) | 79 | |
| 9890993650 | 1947 CE | Partition of India and Pakistan | 80 | |
| 9890993651 | 1948 CE | Arab-Israel conflict & creation of Israel as nation-state; beginning of apartheid system in South Africa | 81 | |
| 9890993652 | 1949 CE | Chinese Communist Revolution - PROC & ROC | 82 | |
| 9890993653 | 1950 - 1953 CE | Korean War; division of Korean peninsula; growth of television broadcast | 83 | |
| 9890993654 | 1954 CE | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu; Guatemala coup | 84 | |
| 9890993655 | 1956 CE | de-Stalinization; nationalization of Suez Canal | 85 | |
| 9890993656 | 1957 CE | Ghana first African country to gain independence | 86 | |
| 9890993657 | 1959 CE | Cuban Communist Revolution; Great Leap Forward in China | 87 | |
| 9890993658 | 1966 - 1976 CE | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 88 | |
| 9890993659 | 1967 CE | Arab-Israel conflict ("Six Day War") | 89 | |
| 9890993660 | 1968 CE | Youth revolutions around the world; Olympics in Mexico | 90 | |
| 9890993661 | 1973 CE | Arab-Israel conflict ("Yom Kippur war") | 91 | |
| 9890993662 | 1979 CE | Iranian Revolution; USSR invasion of Afghanistan | 92 | |
| 9890993663 | 1987 CE | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 93 | |
| 9890993664 | 1989 CE | fall of Berlin Wall | 94 | |
| 9890993665 | 1991 CE | fall of USSR/1st Gulf War | 95 | |
| 9890993666 | 1994 CE | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa | 96 |
