Important Dates for AP World History Flashcards

9816408679	10,000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution	0
9816408680	3,500 BCE	Sumer: River Valley Civilizations	1
9816408681	800 BCE - 200 BCE	Axial Age (Some Religions/ Philosophies Created - Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Greek philosophy)	2
9816408682	600 BCE - 600 CE	Classical Era: Greece, Rome, Qin and Han, Mauryan and Gupta, Persia, and Maya	3
9816408683	0(ish) CE	Jesus, Beginning of Christianity	4
9816408684	476 CE	Fall of Rome, Move to Middle Ages	5
9816408685	600 CE	Beginning of Islam, Byzantine Empire Starts	6
9816408686	1095 CE	First Crusade	7
9816408687	1258 CE	Mongols Defeat Abbasids at Baghdad (Persia)	8
9816408688	1433 CE	Zheng He Called Back (by Ming)	9
9816408689	1453 CE	Ottomans Defeat Byzantine at Constantinople	10
9816408690	1492 CE	Americas Discovered (Columbus)	11
9816408691	1600 CE	Turning Point (STARJOQD) Spanish Armada (navy) defeated by British Tokugawa shogunate starts Akbar (Mughals in India) Romanovs take power in Russia (czars) - Peter the Great in 1721) Jamestown colony starts in Americas (British colonies in Americas) Ottoman decline Qing dynasty starts Great Dying in the Americas - demographic disaster	12
9816408692	1750 CE	Industrial Revolution Begins	13
9816408693	1789 CE	French Revolution Begins	14
9816408694	1825 CE	Latin America Independent (All Revolutions Done)	15
9816408695	1870 CE	Second Industrial Revolution	16
9905139663	1914 CE	World War I begins	17
9905141349	1918 CE	Treaty of Versailles (end of WWI)	18
9905142636	1939 CE	World War II starts - Germany invades Poland	19
9905143495	1945 CE	World War II ends - U.S. drops nuclear bombs on Japan, Cold War starts	20
9954714059	1989 CE	Tienanmen Square Massacre; Microsoft Windows; End of USSR; Fall of Berlin Wall	21