AP World Flashcards

13886587121	8000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution	0
13886589469	3000 BCE	First state-based civilizations	1
13886592866	1500 BCE	Iron Age	2
13886599242	500s BCE	Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi	3
13886605140	400s BCE	Greek Golden Age	4
13886607384	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	5
13886609470	221 BCE	Qin unified China	6
13886612240	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	7
13886614773	180 CE	End of Pax Romana	8
13886617473	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty	9
13886621428	333 CE	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
13886623219	476 CE	Fall of Rome	11
13886626502	527 CE	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	12
13886630800	622	Founding of Islam	13
13886632296	732	Battle of Tours	14
13886634288	1054	The Great Schism (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)	15
13886641925	1066	Norman conquest of England	16
13886644088	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine)	17
13886650478	1095	1st Crusade	18
13886652896	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	19
13886657654	1271-1295	Marco Polo's travels	20
13886661544	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	21
13886664794	1325-1349	Travels of Ibn Battuta	22
13886694988	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	23
13886697892	1405-1433	Zheng He's voyages	24
13886700063	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	25
13886702535	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	26
13886704334	1492	Columbus/Reconquista of Spain	27
13886707519	1502	First slaves to Americas	28
13886713433	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses	29
13886715884	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	30
13886717788	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	31
13886722233	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	32
13886723412	1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	33
13886726202	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa	34
13886728767	1607	Jamestown settled	35
13886732240	1618-1648	30 years war	36
13886733903	1683	Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	37
13886736042	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	38
13886747692	Mid 1700s	Industrial Revolution begins in Britain	39
13886782338	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	40
13886786805	1776	American Revolution	41
13886793164	1789	French Revolution begins	42
13886797025	1804	Haitian independence	43
13886799930	1815	Congress of Vienna/ defeat of Napoleon	44
13886808613	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
13886810901	1839	1st Opium War in China	46
13886815403	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
13886819015	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
13886820426	1857	Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny)	49
13886824503	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
13886825782	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
13886827461	1871	German unification	52
13886828922	1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	53
13886830106	1898	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
13886832440	1899	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	55
13886834384	1905	Russo-Japanese War	56
13886836155	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown)	57
13886837356	1911	Chinese Revolution (Qing overthrown)	58
13886839291	1914	WWI begins	59
13886841602	1917	Russian Revolution	60
13886845884	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI	61
13886847805	1929	stock market crash	62
13886849438	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
13886851428	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
13886853670	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
13886854932	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
13886858356	1945	End of WWII	67
13886864924	1947	Independence and partition of India	68
13886864925	1948	Birth of Israel	69
13886866344	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
13886870443	1956	Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal	71
13886869134	1950-1953	Korean War	72
13886876067	1959	Cuban Revolution	73
13886877455	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	74
13886877456	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	75
13886880012	1979	Iranian Revolution	76
13886881647	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	77
13886885474	1991	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War	78
13886887515	1994	genocide in Rwanda/ Mandela in South Africa	79
13886893127	2001	9/11 Attacks	80
13886894249	2003	US invades Iraq	81