AP World History Dates Flashcards

2218187905	8000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution	0
2218187906	8000 BCE	Beginning of plant domestication	1
2218187907	3000 BCE	The Bronze Age & the start of civilization in Sumer	2
2218187908	1500 BCE	Beginnings of the Vedic Age	3
2218187909	1500 BCE	India's cultural foundations are created	4
2218187910	1300 BCE	The Iron Age & the Hittites	5
2218187911	800 BCE	Olmec -parent group to future Latin American civilizations	6
2218187912	6th century BCE	Life of Buddha, Lao Tzu, & Confucius	7
2218187913	5th century BCE	Classical (Hellenic) Greece	8
2218187914	5th century BCE	Time of great philosophers -Socrates, Plato, Arisotle, Pericles & the Athenian Empire	9
2218187915	323 BCE	Alexander the Great and the Hellenizing process	10
2218187916	3rd century BCE	Chadragupta Maurya; 1st Indian Empire; Kautilya writes political treaties	11
2218187917	3rd century BCE	Asoka -popularity of Buddhism	12
2218187918	3rd century BCE	Qin Dynasty	13
2218187919	3rd century BCE	Shi Huangdi use of legalistic practices	14
2218187920	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	15
2218187921	180 CE	End of the Pax Romana	16
2218187922	220 CE	Collapse of Han China	17
2218187923	220 CE	Buddhism starts to become in China	18
2218187924	312 CE	Edict of Milan	19
2218187925	312 CE	1st law to give religious toleration	20
2218187926	319-540 CE	Cultural peak in India; advances in math, science and literature	21
2218187927	319-540 CE	Gupta India	22
2218187928	333 CE	Roman capital moved from the west to the east: Constantinople	23
2218187929	4th century CE	Domestication of the camel; beginning of the Trans-Sahara & the Trans-Arabian trade routes	24
2218187930	4th century CE	Afro-Eurasia is connected	25
2218187931	476 CE	Collapse of the Roman Empire	26
2218187932	476 CE	The beginnings of the Middle Ages in Europe	27
2218187933	527 CE	Peak of the Byzantine Empire and the rule of Justinian	28
2218187934	589 CE	Sui Dynasty in China	29
2218187935	589 CE	Reintroduction of a centralized government in China after years of political fragmentation	30
2218187936	632 CE	Origins of Islam	31
2218187937	650-750 CE	Umayyad Caliphate	32
2218187938	732 CE	Battle of Tours -stops the western progression of Islam into Europe	33
2218187939	750-1250 CE	Abbasid Caliphate; Golden Age of Islam	34
2218187940	750-1250 CE	Baghdad is an intellectual center	35
2218187941	800 CE	Fall of the Mayans & Teotihuacans	36
2218187942	800 CE	Rule of Charlemagne & the beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire	37
2218187943	1054 CE	Great Schism	38
2218187944	1054 CE	The official split of the Christian faith	39
2218187945	1066 CE	Battle of Hastings	40
2218187946	1066 CE	England is a centralized	41
2218187947	1095 CE	1st Crusades	42
2218187948	1130-1200 CE	Xhu-Xi a Neo-Confucianist during the Song era	43
2218187949	1206 CE	The reign of Genghis Khan	44
2218187950	1206 CE	The world's biggest empire	45
2218187951	1258 CE	Mongols attack Baghdad	46
2218187952	1271-1295 CE	Travels of Marco Polo	47
2218187953	1324 CE	Rule of Mansa Musa & his kingdom of Mali	48
2218187954	1324 CE	Timbuktu is an intellectual center	49
2218187955	1325-1349 CE	Travels of Ibn Battuta	50
2218187956	1347-1348 CE	Bubonic Plague kills 1/3 of the people in Europe	51
2218187957	1405 CE	Zheng He (the Christopher Columbus of China)	52
2218187958	1433 CE	Ming China closes its borders	53
2218187959	1450 CE	The printing press is invented	54
2218187960	1450 CE	Great Zimbabwe collapses	55
2218187961	1450 CE	Byzantine collapses	56
2218187962	1600s CE	Japan closes it borders; Nagasaki is the only port left open	57
2218187963	1750 CE	The Industrial Revolution	58
2218187964	1756 CE	Seven Years War (French-Indian War)	59
2218187965	1776 CE	American Revolution	60
2218187966	1776 CE	Adam Smith writes "The Wealth of Nations" which becomes a new economic philosophy called Laissez Faire	61
2218187967	1789 CE	French Revolution	62
2218187968	1804 CE	Haitian Independence which is associated with Toussaint Louverture	63
2218187969	1815 CE	Congress of Vienna	64
2218187970	1820s CE	Independence movements in Latin America associated with Simon Bolivar	65
2218187971	1839 CE	1st Opium War	66
2218187972	1848 CE	Karl Marx writes "The Communist Manifesto;" thesis statement: the proletariat will rise up in a spontaneous revolution	67
2218187973	1850 CE	Tai-Ping Rebellion	68
2218187974	1850 CE	Deadliest civil war	69
2218187975	1853 CE	Matthew Perry, an American, opens up Japan for trade	70
2218187976	1857 CE	Seapoi Mutiny; the Parliament finally dissolves the British East India Trading Company	71
2218187977	1861 CE	Serfdom ends in Russia	72
2218187978	1863 CE	The Emancipation Proclamation along w/ the 13th amendment end coerced labor systems in North America	73
2218187979	1871 CE	German Unification; creation of the 2nd Reich	74
2218187980	1885 CE	Berlin Conference; modern political boundaries are created in Africa	75
2218187981	1898 CE	Spanish-American War	76
2218187982	1898 CE	USA takes over the Philippines and becomes an imperialistic power	77
2218187983	1899 CE	Boer War; the British take control of S. Africa from the Dutch and the origins of the apartheid begin	78
2218187984	1900s CE	Boxer Rebellion	79
2218187985	1900s CE	Rebellion with the same causes as the Tai-Ping Rebellion & is put down by the U.S. marines	80
2218187986	1905 CE	Russo Japanese War	81
2218187987	1910 CE, 1911 CE, & 1917 CE	Mexican, Chinese, & Russian Revolution that are associated with land redistribution	82
2218187988	1910 CE	The Mexican constitution is created	83
2218187989	1911 CE	The last Civil Service Exam is given	84
2218187990	1912 CE	The Chinese government collapses and imperialism is over	85
2218187991	1914 CE	WWI; 1st modern war with the concept of total war	86