WHAP Must Know Dates Flashcards
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| 186071392 | 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 186071393 | 5th Century B.C.E | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 1 | |
| 186071394 | 323 B.C.E | Alexander the great | 2 | |
| 186071395 | 221 B.C.E | Qin unified china; Great Wall started to be built by Qin | 3 | |
| 186071396 | 32 C.E | Beginnings of Christianity | 4 | |
| 186071397 | 180 | end of Pax Romana | 5 | |
| 186071398 | 220 | end of Han Dynasty | 6 | |
| 186071399 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 7 | |
| 186071400 | 476 | the fall of the Roman Empire, the eastern Roman Empire becomes known as the Byzantine Empire | 8 | |
| 186071401 | 527 | Justinian's rule of Byzantine Empire (tries to restore old Roman order) | 9 | |
| 186071402 | 622 | Muhammad's pilgrimage to Medina; begins the Muslim calendar (founded Islam as an official religion) | 10 | |
| 186071403 | 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move in France) | 11 | |
| 186071404 | 1054 | Great Schism in the Christian Church- Christianity split into Roman Catholicism and Christian Orthodox | 12 | |
| 186071405 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 13 | |
| 186071406 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert- Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire | 14 | |
| 186071407 | 1095 | Pope Urban II started the Crusades; sent Catholic warriors to possess holy city of Jerusalem | 15 | |
| 186071408 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad; caliphate is killed; marks the end of the Abbasid Caliphate | 16 | |
| 186071409 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 17 | |
| 186071410 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 18 | |
| 186071411 | 1325-1349 | Ibn Battuta's travels (kept journals to document travels, later used as primary sources) | 19 | |
| 186071412 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic/Black Plague; kills 1/3 of Europe's population | 20 | |
| 186071413 | 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages for China because of Emperor Yongle's death; Rise of the Ottoman Empire | 21 | |
| 186071414 | 1453 | Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks (muslims from Anatolia) | 22 | |
| 186071415 | 1488 | Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope (Africa) for Portugal | 23 | |
| 186071416 | 1492 | Columbus sailed to America/ Reconquista of Spain | 24 | |
| 186071417 | 1502 | First shipment of slaves to the Caribbean | 25 | |
| 186071418 | 1517 | Martin Luther writes and nails "95 Theses" which criticized the Catholic Church; beginning of the Protestant Reformation | 26 | |
| 186071419 | 1521 | Hernando Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 27 | |
| 186071420 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 28 | |
| 186071421 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi | 29 | |
| 186071422 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of the Ottoman Turks | 30 | |
| 186071423 | 1588 | British defeat of the Spanish Armada | 31 | |
| 186071424 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate | 32 | |
| 186071425 | 1607 | Founding of Jamestown by the English (first slaves arrived there in 1619) | 33 | |
| 186071426 | 1618-1648 | The Thirty Years War takes place in Europe with fierce fighting between Catholics and Protestants | 34 | |
| 186071427 | 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 35 | |
| 186071428 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 36 |