AP WORLD HISTORY DATES Flashcards
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| 8345004896 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic revolution; domestication of plants | 0 | |
| 8345004897 | 3500 BCE | Beginning of civilization in Sumer; introduction of the Bronze Age | 1 | |
| 8345004898 | 1500-500 BCE | Vedic age of India; cultural foundations of India; introduction of the caste system | 2 | |
| 8345004899 | 1300 BCE | Hittites; introduction of the Iron Age | 3 | |
| 8345004900 | 800 BCE | Olmec (the parent civilization of Latin America, Mayans, Aztecs, and Inca) | 4 | |
| 8345004901 | 6th century BCE | The life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Cyrus the Great | 5 | |
| 8345004902 | 5th century BCE | Classical Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Pericles) / Roman Republic (12 tablets, rule of law) | 6 | |
| 8345004903 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great spreads Greek culture throughout Persia (AKA helenizing) | 7 | |
| 8345004904 | 3rd century BCE | First Indian empire (Mauryan). Kautilya=political advisor / China- Qin Dynasty (Shi Huangdi creates first centralized government in China) / Beginning of the Han Dynasty in China | 8 | |
| 8345004905 | 32 CE | Origins of Christianity | 9 | |
| 8345004906 | 70 CE | Romans destroy Jerusalem; Jewish diaspora until 20th century | 10 | |
| 8345004907 | 180 CE | End of the "Pax Romana" (Roman Peace) after 20 years of it | 11 | |
| 8345004908 | 220 CE | Collapse of Han China; Buddhism becomes popular there | 12 | |
| 8345004909 | 312 CE | Edict of Milan (first law of religious tolerance, only for Christians) | 13 | |
| 8345004910 | 318-540 CE | Gupta India; cultural peak; advances in math, science, and medicine | 14 | |
| 8345004911 | 333 CE | Split of the Roman Empire; new capital in the East is Constantinople / Origins of Byzantine Empire | 15 | |
| 8345004912 | 4th century CE | Domestication of camels; invention of the camel saddle; creation of 2 trade routes (trans-Sahara and trans-Arabia) (Afroeurasia connected by trade routes) | 16 | |
| 8345004913 | 476 CE | Collapse of Rome | 17 | |
| 8345004914 | 527 CE | Peak of the Byzantine Empire (Emperor Justinian); code of Justinian (law) | 18 | |
| 8345004915 | 589 CE | Sui Dynasty in China / reintroduction of centralized government | 19 | |
| 8345004916 | 618 CE | Beginning of the Tang Dynasty; re-introduction of the Silk Roads | 20 | |
| 8345004917 | 632 CE | Origins of Islam | 21 | |
| 8345004918 | c. 650-750 CE | Umayyad Caliphate (first Islamic empire); rapid expansion across Northern Africa and the Middle East | 22 | |
| 8345004919 | 732 CE | The Battle of Tours (stopped western progression of Islam into Europe) | 23 | |
| 8345004920 | c. 750-1250 | Abbasid Caliphate; Golden Age of Islam; advances of math, science, and medicine; development of Algebra; made Baghdad the capital; intellectual center | 24 | |
| 8345004921 | 800 CE | Charlemagne becomes the 1st Holy Roman Emperor; the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) lasts until end of World War One (1919) | 25 | |
| 8345004922 | c. 1000 CE | Ghana; West African empire; peak of the empire; wealthy with the gold and salt trade | 26 | |
| 8345004923 | 1054 CE | Great Schism (first official split Christianity; the West = Roman Catholic Church, the East = Orthodox Church) | 27 | |
| 8345004924 | 1066 CE | Battle of Hastings (beginning of a centralized government in England) | 28 | |
| 8345004925 | 1095 CE | 1st crusade (a war between Europe and the Arabs; the Arabs were more sophisticated; stops eastern progression of Islam into Europe) | 29 | |
| 8345004926 | 1130-1200 CE | Xhu-Xi; second most important philosopher in China; Neo-Confucianism; talks about the metaphysics of Buddhism | 30 | |
| 8345004927 | 1206 CE | Ghengis Khan; beginning of the worlds largest empire of all time (includes the Mongols) | 31 | |
| 8345004928 | 1258 CE | Mongols destroy Baghdad, ending the Islamic unity | 32 | |
| 8345004929 | 1271 CE | Marco Polo travels silk roads to China and becomes part of Kublai Khan's court (includes Mongols); European learn about gunpowder | 33 | |
| 8345004930 | 1324 CE and 1325-1349 CE | Mansa Musa is the richest man in world history with Mali in West Africa, Timbuktu becomes an intellectual center (1324); Ibn Batutta travels across Africa and the Middle East (for Mansa Musa) (1325-1349) | 34 | |
| 8345004931 | 1347 CE | Bubonic plague wipes out 1/3 of the population (came from China, the Mongols) | 35 | |
| 8345004932 | 1405 CE | Zheng He does the maritime exploration of the Indian Ocean and makes his way all around to East Africa | 36 | |
| 8345004933 | 1433 CE | China closes borders and builds Great Wall (Ming Dynasty) but misses the scientific revolution of the world | 37 | |
| 8345004934 | 1450 CE | Europe invents printing press; Byzantine empire collapses; Great Zimbabwe collapses in East Africa | 38 |