AP WORLD HISTORY dates Flashcards
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| 13790228131 | 476 - 1000ish | The Dark Ages / Medieval Period | 0 | |
| 13790231316 | 622 CE | Founding of Islam | 1 | |
| 13790236680 | 750-1258 | Abbasid Dynasty (Islamic Golden Age / Capital at Baghdad) | 2 | |
| 13790241891 | 1200 | Rise of the Mongols (Silk Roads revitalized, etc.) | 3 | |
| 13790245290 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 4 | |
| 13790251569 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 5 | |
| 13790251570 | 1400 | Renaissance (1400ish -1650) begins to formulate in Northern Italy | 6 | |
| 13790255947 | 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans | 7 | |
| 13790260020 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 8 | |
| 13790266519 | 1492 | Date: Columbus "Sailed the Ocean Blue" / Reconquista of Spain | 9 | |
| 13790273235 | 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses | 10 | |
| 13790283100 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 11 | |
| 13790306237 | 1650-1800 | Age of Enlightenment/Reason in Europe | 12 | |
| 13790310172 | 1750 | Industrial Revolution begins in England | 13 | |
| 13790315480 | 1789 | French Revolution | 14 | |
| 13790321289 | 1839-1842 | Opium War in China | 15 | |
| 13790328309 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 16 | |
| 13790336747 | 1861 | Serfdom abolished in Russia | 17 | |
| 13790339870 | 1871 | Germany unifies under Bismarck | 18 | |
| 13790344804 | 1885 | Berlin Conference -Imperialism and the "Scramble for Africa" | 19 | |
| 13790359954 | 1914-1918 | World War I ( panama canal completed 1914) | 20 | |
| 13790372657 | 1917 | Russian Revolution | 21 | |
| 13790380009 | 1939-1945 | World War II | 22 | |
| 13790380010 | 1949 | people's republic of china established | 23 | |
| 13790386825 | 1989 | Tienanmen square/ fall of Berlin wall | 24 |