AP World History Flashcards

6815181819	3500 BCE	City-states of Sumer (cuneiform writing) Hindus Valley Empire of Akkad Egypt	0
6815181820	1750 BCE	Hammurabi and 1st Babylonian Empire Aryan Invasion of India	1
6815181821	1600-1100 BCE	Mycenaeans and the Trojan War	2
6815181822	1500-300 BCE	Phonecian city-states	3
6815181823	900 BCE	Assyrian Empire (conquers Nothern Israel in 722 BCE)	4
6815181824	800 BCE	Greek city-states emerge	5
6815181825	609 BCE	Nebuhadnezzar and Neo-babylonian Empire conquers Assyria	6
6815181826	539 BCE	Cyrus the Great and Persian Empire conquers Babylon	7
6815181827	510 BCE	Romans conquer Etruscans and take Italy over next 100 years	8
6815181828	500 BCE	Confucius in China Buddha in India Socrates in Greece Zoroaster in Persia	9
6815181829	490 BCE	Darius defeated by Athens at Marathon	10
6815181830	480 BCE	Spartans hold off Xerxes invasion at Thermopylae	11
6815181831	431-404 BCE	Great Peloponessian War	12
6815181832	333 BCE	Alexander the Great and the Greeks conquer Babylon	13
6815181833	322 BCE	Mauryan Empire arises in India under Chandragupta Mauryan as Greeks retreat	14
6815181834	300 BCE	Gen. Seleucus takes Syria to India Gen. Ptolemy thakes Eygpt to N. Africa	15
6815181835	50 BCE	Julius Caesar crosses Rubicon conquers Pompey... civil war	16
6815200710	27 BCE	Octavian crowned Caesar Augustus turning Roman Republic into Roman Empire	17
6815223293	30 CE	Jesus crucified Christianity begins to spread rapidly in Rome.	18
6815236627	313 CE	Constantine issues Edict of Milan legalizing Christianity.	19
6815243719	476 CE	Rome in the west falls to German General Odoacer	20
6815251887	500 CE	All of Europe if broken up into little countries all governed by Germanic general: Feudalism - unifying effect of Catholic Church	21