7th Grade Social Studies

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    The land of farming.
  • 2500 BCE

    Hinduism started

    People believed in a variety of beliefs, Their goal was to release Atman and reunite with the divine becoming as one with Brahman.
  • 1500 BCE

    Hinduism

  • 1300 BCE

    Judaism was founded

    Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths.
  • 586 BCE

    First Jewish temple destroyed

    The jewish temple was destroyed by Babylonians
  • 520 BCE

    Buddhism started

    Buddhism is the 4th largest religion, This teaches people that they can escape the suffering of the world through its teachings.
  • 632

    Muhammad's death

  • Period: 800 to 1258

    The islamic golden age

  • 1224

    Mongol's attacked Russia

  • 1240

    Kiev was taken

  • Period: 1253 to 1324

    Marco Polo

  • 1268

    The conquest of china started

  • Period: 1268 to 1273

    The battle of Xiangyang

  • 1271

    Kubilai Khan's dynasty became Yuan

  • Period: 1271 to 1295

    Marco traveled with father

  • 1275

    The battle of Yangzhou,

  • 1304

    Ibn Buttuta birth

    Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier Morocco.
  • 1324

    Mansa's journey to Mecca

    Mansa had 60,000-80,000 servants with him on this trip.
  • Period: 1324 to 1325

    Musa performed the hajj

  • 1337

    Mansa musa's death

    He died at the age of 57
  • 1369

    Ibn Battuta dies

    He died in Fez Morocco
  • 1375

    Mali's wealth made it on the map

    He was very rich
  • 1431

    Tuareg nomads seized Timbuktu

  • Established trade within India and Britain

  • Period: to

    Colonization of India

    British India lasted 335 years
  • Period: to

    Mughal empire was in decline.

  • British East India company

    They controlled India's political and economic life.
  • Period: to

    British Rule in India

    This period became known as the British Raj.
  • European Exploration

    Captain James Cook sailed around Australia.
  • Prisoners as Colonists

    British ships called the “First Fleet” left England with convicts to establish a prison colony
  • Prisoners as Colonists

    British prisoners settled in Australia.
  • Period: to

    New South Wales

    New South Wales was officially a penal.
  • Chinese government trading problem

    The Chinese government realized that the opium trade and addition was a problem.
  • Opium wars

    It banned both the production and importation of opium.
  • Period: to

    The height of the trade.

  • Opium wars

    The Chinese government outlawed the smoking of opium and imposed a punishment of beating offenders 100 times
  • The Monroe Doctrine

    the American
    continents” from European
    influences and problems.
  • East India company ruled India

    Many Indians represented British rule.
  • Period: to

    Port Arthur, Tasmania

    It was the destination for the hardest of convicted British and Irish criminals, those who were secondary offenders having re-offended after their arrival in Australia.
  • Arrival of Matthew Perry

  • Period: to

    The second opium war

    After repeatedly falling short of British expectations of Treaty enforcement, a second Opium War broke out in 1856 and ended in 1860
  • British control

    A large number of British-trained
    Indian soldiers(sepoys) rebelled against their British officers.
  • Sepoy Mutiny

    Hindus and Muslims revolted against the British.
  • The Meiji Restoration

    Japanese period beginning in 1853 when Japan went from a non-industrial feudal nation to a modern, industrial and imperial power.
  • Sepoy Mutiny

    British crushed the rebellion
  • Commonwealth of Australia

    Government officials created boundaries for the colonies that are still in place today.
  • Aborigines

    federal government began to pass legislation to help the Aborigines.
  • Congo free state

    Henry Stanley established this.
  • Period: to

    Scramble for Africa

  • Britain occupied Egypt

    Taking advantage of Egypt’s unrest.
  • Period: to

    Berlin Conference

    European leaders wanted to avoid war.
  • Indian National congress

  • Australia today

    all legal ties with the British Empire were severed.
  • Hitlers Birthday

    He was born in Australia.
  • Modernization: Meiji Restoration

    Only 5% of population could vote in 1890 election
  • Social Developments

    High school education for women
  • The boxer Rebellion

    They attempt to throw out the foreigners
  • Commonwealth of Australia

    The Commonwealth of Australia was established.
  • Period: to

    The Russo-Japanese War

    The results startled the world!
  • Muslim League

  • Abdul Hamid= last sultan

    Young Turks takeover Ultra nationalist group
  • Japan annexes Korea

  • Young Turks join WWI

    On the side of Germany and are defeated.
  • Part of the major genocide.

    Approximately 1,000,000 Armenians had died.
  • Population of the Armenians in Turkey

    Approximately 1,000,000 Armenians had died.
  • U.S. got involved

    Germany told Americans to stay off. British ships, as they could and would sink them.
  • Period: to

    The Armenian Genocide

    MANY people died from genocide.
  • Genocide happening

    250 Armenian community, political, religious, educational, leaders were rounded up in the middle of the night in Istanbul, shot and killed.
  • Germany announced unlimited submarine warfare in the war zone.

    Otherwise, Germany’s blockade would not be successful.
  • Calling for a Communist

    revolution, anti-Tsarist protesters gather outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Russia.
  • Russia left the war

    After its communist revolution.
  • The Espionage Act

    The Sedition Act of 1918 punished those against the war, many of whom were labor leaders.
  • New York Journal

    announcing the declaration of war the previous day.
  • Period: to

    The Race for the Atom Bomb Around the World

    Germany started experimenting with Nuclear Fission in 1938, but slowed down in 1942 because Germany felt victory in WWII was imminent.
  • Adolf Hitler

  • Pearl Harbor

  • The U.S Joined world war 2

  • Americans Retake the Philippines

    American returned to the Philippines after “Island Hopping” our way there.
  • Stalin Moves West

    The Red Army approached, Polish “liberation forces” rose up against the German occupation forces – but Stalin halted his troops and let the German army destroy Warsaw on purpose.
  • The war ended in Europe

  • Period: to

    US played major part in occupying Germany

  • Australia Today

    55% of voters rejected the idea of becoming an independent republic.
  • Laina's Birthday

    The day I was born