AP World History Dates Flashcards
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| 5049718514 | 8000 BCE | -Neolithic Revolution ("domestication of plants and animals") | 0 | |
| 5049725076 | 3000 BCE | -Beginning of the Bronze Age & the start of civilization in Sumer | 1 | |
| 5049734027 | c. 1500 BCE | -The Vedic Age set the cultural foundation for India and Hinduism | 2 | |
| 5049744358 | c. 1300 BCE | -Iron Age & the Hittites | 3 | |
| 5049748327 | 800 BCE | -Olmec ("parent civilization of South Africa") | 4 | |
| 5049755786 | 6th century BCE | -Life of Buddha & in China it's the life of Confucius and Lao Tzu | 5 | |
| 5049763680 | 5th century BCE | -Hellenic ("Classical") Greece= Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pericles and the Athenian Empire; at the time of the Roman Republic the 12 tablets are written | 6 | |
| 5049779423 | 323 BCE | -Alexander the Great begins the Hellenizing process by spreading Greek culture and knowledge. | 7 | |
| 5049789497 | 3rd century BCE | -Mauryan Dynasty (1st empire in India); Kautilya wrote political treaties ("Rule of the Fishes"); time of Asoka and when Buddhism becomes popular; Qin dynasty; Shi Huangdi uses legalistic practices | 8 | |
| 5049814691 | 202 BCE | -Han dynasty | 9 | |
| 5049817448 | 32 CE | -Beginnings of Christianity | 10 | |
| 5049821049 | 180 CE | -End of the Pax Romana (200 years of peace) | 11 | |
| 5049826649 | 220 CE | -Collapse of Han China & China becomes politically fragmented; the introduction of Buddhism | 12 | |
| 5049839634 | 312 CE | -Edict of Milan= 1st written law to give religious toleration (specifically to Christians) | 13 | |
| 5049848725 | 319-540 CE | -Gupta India (cultural peak)= advances in math, science, and literature | 14 | |
| 5049859491 | 333 CE | -Dividing the Roman Empire into 2 and the capital is moved from the west to the east [new capital= Constantinople] | 15 | |
| 5049874826 | 4th century CE | -Domestication of the camel introduces 2 new trade routes, which are the Trans-Sahara and the Trans-Arabian. With this introduction you have the connection of the Afro-Erasia (Africa, Europe & Asia) | 16 | |
| 5049908704 | 476 CE | -Collapse of the Romans and the beginnings of the Middle Ages in Europe | 17 | |
| 5049914501 | 527 CE | -Peak of the Byzantine empire and the rule of Justinian | 18 | |
| 5049919790 | 589 CE | -Beginning of the Sui Dynasty; the reintroduction of the Mandate of Heaven; and a centralized government | 19 | |
| 5049933557 | 632 CE | -Origin of Islam | 20 | |
| 5049935885 | 650-750 CE | -Umayyad Caliphate [an Islamic Empire] {present day: Isis is claiming to be one} | 21 | |
| 5049947406 | 732 CE | -Battle of Tours [Umayyad vs. Francs (Europeans)] stops the Western progression of Islam into Europe | 22 | |
| 5049962324 | 750-1250 CE | -Abbasid caliphate= golden age of Islam [advances in math/science/medicine/arts] | 23 | |
| 5049975240 | 800 CE | -Mayans/Teotihuacan fall; In Europe it's the rule of Charlemagne [beginning of the Holy Roman War which ends in 1919] | 24 | |
| 5049989485 | Great Schism | -1st split in the Christian Faith [West= Holy Roman Catholic] [East= Eastern Orthodox] | 25 | |
| 5049999384 | 1066 CE | -Battle of Hastings; England is a centralized gov't | 26 | |
| 5050011261 | 1095 CE | -1st crusade: series of wars [Christian-Europeans vs. Arab-Muslims]; Europeans take idea from Arab technology | 27 | |
| 5050038172 | 1130-1200 CE | -(China) Xhu-Xi= Neo-Confucianist during the Song Dynasty | 28 | |
| 5050048770 | 1206 CE | -The reign of Genghis Khan; Genghis creates the world's biggest empire [the Mongols] | 29 | |
| 5050059651 | 1258 CE | -Mongols attack Baghdad; Official end of the Abbasid caliphate; End of Islamic political unity | 30 | |
| 5050069911 | 1271-1295 CE | -Travels of Marco Polo from Europe to China; Marco becomes part of Kublai Khan's court | 31 | |
| 5050092169 | 1324 CE | -Rule of Mansa Musa & his kingdom of Mali [capital/intellectual center= Timbuktu] | 32 | |
| 5050102833 | 1325-49 CE | -Travels of Ibn Battuta; Ibn travels through Africa, specifically Mali | 33 | |
| 5050129616 | 1347-48 CE | -Bubonic Plague in Europe kills 1/3 of the people | 34 | |
| 5050108757 | 1405 CE | -Zheng He= The "Christopher Columbus" of the Chinese; Maritime exploration of the Indian Ocean | 35 | |
| 5050137026 | 1433 CE | -Ming China closes its borders= 500 years of isolation | 36 | |
| 5050149811 | c. 1450 CE | -the Printing Press is invented in Europe; Byzantine collapses; Great Zimbabwe collapses | 37 |