AP World History Dates Flashcards

10699292124	180 CE	End of Pax Romana (200 years of Roman peace)	0
10699292125	600 BCE - 600 CE, 6th century BCE, the 500s	Buddha, Cyrus the Great, Confucius, Lao Tzu	1
10699292126	32 CE	Origins of Christianity	2
10699292127	circa 3500 BCE	The beginning of civilization (Sumer)	3
10699292128	circa 8000 BCE	The Neolithic Revolution, plant domestication	4
10699292129	circa 1300 BCE	introduction of iron; Hittites	5
10699292130	476 CE	Fall of Rome, European Middle Ages, end of rule of law	6
10699292131	circa 800 BCE	Olmec civilization in Latin America, parent to Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs	7
10699292132	333 CE	Rome splits into East and West, Constantinople is new capital in East	8
10699292133	3rd century BCE, the 200s	India's first empire. Chandragupta and Katilya, Quin Dynasty, Shi Haundi creates China with legalism	9
10699292134	202 BCE	Founding of Han dynasty, cultural peak	10
10699292135	312 CE	Edict of Milan, religious tolerance to Christians	11
10699292136	318-540 CE	Gupta India - advances in math, medicine, and science, cultural peak	12
10699292137	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty, rise of Buddhism; China is politically fragmented for 350 years	13
10699292138	323 CE	Alexander the Great, Helenizing process	14
10699292139	70 CE	Romans destroy Jerusalem, Jewish Diaspora	15
10699292140	5th century BCE (400s)	Roman Republic, 12 tablets of Roman las, Classical Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pericles	16
10699292141	4th century CE	domestication of the camel, camel saddle, Afroeurasia connected by trade	17
10699292142	circa 1500 BCE	Beginnings of the Vedic Age, caste system, Hinduism	18
10706436935	527 CE	Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire, peak, Justinian code of law introduced, rule of law for 900 years	19
10706436936	589 CE	Beginning of Sui Dynasty: reintroduction of a central government to China	20
10967339944	618 CE	Origins of the Tang Dynasty, Silk Roads reintroduced into Chinese territory	21
10967339945	632 CE	Origins of Islam	22
10967339946	circa 650-750 CE	Umayyad Caliphate; spread of Islam to the West across North Africa and East to Persia	23
10967339947	732 CE	Battle of Tours, Europeans defeat Muslims on the border between France and Spain and stop expansion of Islam into Western Europe	24
10967339948	circa 750-1250 CE	Abbasid of Caliphate, Golden Age of Islam, advances in math, science, art, banking, etc.	25
10967339949	800 CE	Rule of Charlemagne & the beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire, lasts until 1919, most unified Europe has been under one government since the collapse of Rome	26
10967339950	circa 1000 CE	Peak of Ghana, West African Kingdom wealthy from trade in gold and salt	27
10967339951	1054 CE	The Great Schism, the first split in Christian faith, West is the Roman Catholic Church and East is Orthodox	28
10967339952	1066 CE	Battle of Hastings, start of centralized government in Europe	29
10967339953	1095 CE	First Crusade, between Europeans and Muslims, trade routes reemerge, information and intellectual achievements come to Europe	30
10967339954	1130-1200 CE	Shu Xi, most important philosopher since Confucius- Neo-Confucianism, Confucianism with Daoist and Buddhist elements	31
10967339955	1206 CE	Origins of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, largest empire of all time and the first to give true religious tolerance	32
10967339956	1271-1295 CE	Marco Polo travels the Silk Roads and China, brings back Chinese information to Europe, becomes a member of Kublikan's Royal Court	33
10967339957	1324 CE	Kingdom of Mali, King Mansa Musa is the richest man in all of world history, controls salt and gold, Timbuktu is an intellectual center	34
10967339958	1325-1349 CE	Travels of Ibn Battuta, the "Muslim Marco Polo", travels through the Islamic World and Africa keeping a journal	35
10967339959	1347-1348 CE	Bubonic Plague kills 1/3 of the people in Europe	36
10967339960	1405 CE	Zheng He (the Christopher Columbus of China) travels Southeast Africa and the Indian Ocean in seven trips with tens of thousands of sailors on dozens of ships	37
10967339961	1433 CE	China closes its borders, builds the Great Wall (Ming Dynasty), misses the science revolution	38
10967339962	circa 1450 CE	Europe invents the printing press, 500 years after China	39
10967339963	circa 1450 CE	Great Zimbabwe collapses	40
10967339964	circa 1450 CE	Byzantine Empire collapses	41
11184429650	800 CE	Collapse of the Mayans	42
11184429651	1325 CE	Aztec Empire established	43
11184429652	1523 CE	Aztec Empire falls	44
11184520956	1453 CE	Collapse of the Inca	45