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  • Period: 718 to 1492

    reconquista

    spain expels muslims and jews
    horrible interrogations and torture
    ends 1492 with catholic monarchs coming into power
  • 900

    fall of mayan empire

    caused by frequent fighting
    people left cities, settled elsewhere in cnetral america
  • Jul 16, 1053

    great schism

    split christianity into roman catholic and eastern orthodox churches
  • Period: 1096 to 1291

    crusades

    series of attempts by holy roman empire to reconquer jerusalem from muslims
  • Period: 1271 to 1368

    yuan dynasty

    mongol (khublai khan) rule in china
  • Period: 1289 to

    ottoman empire

    gunpowder empire, sunni muslims, modern-day turkey
    - founded by nomadic turks
    - growth after conquering byzantine empire
    - decline in 1500s ("sick man of europe")
    - fall after wwi treaties
  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    black death

    major wave of bubonic plague in europe
  • Period: 1405 to 1433

    zhenghe voyages

    major explorer for ming china
    expanded china's political influence
  • 1453

    ottomans conquer constantinople

    major success for ottoman empire
  • Period: 1464 to

    songhai empire

    west african trading empire
    fell from instability of being too big, gold mines attracted invaders
  • Period: 1478 to

    spanish inquisition

    spanish judicial institution to expel heretics
    consolidated power in spain's monarchy
    still terrible interrogation and torture
  • Period: 1490 to

    age of exploration

    europe invests in maritime exploration to find trade routes, get resources/cash crops, spread christianity inventions: caravel (small, exploration, portuguese), carrack (big, trading, portuguese), fluyt (big, trading, dutch), compass, astrolabe
    volta do mar - portuguese figure out monsoons
  • 1492

    first landing in america

    columbus lands in america or whatever
  • 1494

    treaty of tordesillas

    divided new world between spain and portugal
  • Period: 1501 to

    safavid empire

    gunpowder empire, modern-day iran, shi'ite muslims
    red hats
  • Period: 1517 to

    protestant reformation

    start: martin luther writes 95 theses about catholic church being corrupt, starts protestantism and gives people more access to the bible
    - calvinists: poor and very religious, believe in predetermination, founded by john calvin
    - anglicans: rich/government, believed in divorce (henry viii)
    end: peace of westphalia
  • 1520

    cortes colonizes aztecs

    "new spain"
    killed montezuma ii, spread smallpox
    ruled by viceroys (report back to spain)
  • Period: 1526 to

    mughal empire

    gunpowder empire, modern-day india, muslim-ruled but big hindu and christian populations
    known for religious tolerance
    local rulers toppled government entirely
  • 1532

    pizarro colonizes inca

    "new castile"
    took advantage of civil war and toppled atahualpa
    ruled by viceroys (report back to spain)
  • 1545

    council of trent

    part of counter-reformation; catholic church tries to be less corrupt
    - jesuits (catholic missionaries)
  • Period: to

    tokugawa period

    japanese period of isolation
    strong chinese influences: feudalism > daimyo, emperor, samurai
  • french, english, dutch arrive in america

    france: port royal, canada
    england: jamestown more independent than spain/portugal (companies vs gov. funded)
  • Period: to

    30 years war

    catholics vs protestants
    end: peace of westphalia (agreement that catholics and protestants have to get along)
  • Period: to

    qing dynasty

    final dynasty in china, closed off to prevent "corruption" from other cultures
  • Period: to

    enlightenment

    period of scientific, political, philosophical thought natural rights, age of reason, separation/division of powers, social contract, democracy john locke, voltaire, mary wollstonecraft, thomas hobbes, rousseau, montesquieu
  • glorious revolution

    revolt against king charles i raising taxes
    calvinists (poor) vs anglicans (rich) end: queen mary & william of orange sign treaty to listen to parliament
  • Period: to

    7 years war

    britain vs france over territory in ohio
    britain wins
  • Period: to

    industrial revolution

    started in england (manchester)
    growth in population, lots of europeans move to united states rise of socialism
  • Period: to

    american revolution

    america gains independence from britain after heavy taxing (britain needed money to pay off 7 years war debts) 1776 - signing of declaration of independence
    - heavily influenced by enlightenment ideals (natural rights)
  • Period: to

    french revolution

    poor french taxpayers (third estate) revolt against other two estates
    - urban poor burn bastille (symbol of corruption) end: constitution is written, government changes
    jacobins take over gov reign of terror (1793-1794): public executions to root out "traitors"
  • haitian revolution

    influenced by french revolution
    slaves inspired to revolt against french - first/only slave revolt resulting in a new state no plan to manage independence, still uses forced labor; still has corruption, poverty in modern era
  • Period: to

    napoleon

    rises to power in france
    pros: restored relations w/ catholic church, expanded french empire
    cons: arrogant, took away women's rights
    downfall: tried to conquer russia in winter, troops starve/freeze to death, napoleon exiled
  • congress of vienna

    meetings to restore prior european monarchies after napoleon's downfall
    rulers bound to constitution, have to follow laws
  • latin american revolutions

    mexico (1810), south america (1820s-1830s)
    creole (upper class) vs peninsulares (first class)
  • Period: to

    opium wars

    chinese addicted to opium imported from britain, gov tries to ban
    britain goes to war with china and has better weapons
    forces china to accept unfair treaties, britain has full control of chinese economy (open door policy)
  • Period: to

    new imperialism

    nations build global empires by colonizing nations they already know exist
    controls ALL aspects of another country
    social darwinism, white man's burden britain: india (flipped trade patterns), australia/new zealand
    france: indochina (vietnam, thailand, cambodia, laos)
    dutch: south africa (boers, afrikaans)
    america: hawaii, interest in americas (monroe doctrine)
    japan: china, korea
  • crimean war

    russia attempts to expand into ottoman empire, opposed by britain/france
    russia loses
  • unification of italy

    camillo di cavour, giuseppe garibaldi
    previously just a region
  • russia abolishes serfdom

    centuries after rest of europe
  • unification of germany

    prime minister otto von bismarck
    previously just a region
  • Period: to

    meiji restoration

    japan modernizes and westernizes
    people starve from taxes to fund railways, tech
    fully emerged from seclusion, one of the major world powers
  • berlin conference

    aka partition of africa
    global leaders meet to divide africa between them
  • first sino-japanese war

    japan vs china over control of korea
    japan attacks while china is weakened from opium wars, takes control of taiwan
    opens china more to europe
  • Period: to

    wwi

    allies (france, britain, russia, italy, japan, united states) vs central powers (germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria, ottoman empire)
  • treaty of versailles

    germany blamed for all war, has to pay massive war debt
  • mussolini

    takes over italian government by force
    fascism
  • stalin takes russia

    goes beyond lenin's goals
    farmers forced to collect money for state
    5 year plans, rapid industrialization, people starve to death
    people who disagree/support old socialism are sent to gulags
  • penicillin

  • Period: to

    great depression

    huge worldwide economic downturn
    allies cancel dawes plan (help germany) to focus on their own economies united states government funds public works to get economy going again
  • rise of hitler and nazis

    hitler gains popularity in struggling germany
    blames german suffering on jews, passes laws to limit jewish rights
    nazi party/german police attack jewish shops
  • second sino-japanese war

    after japan pulls out of league of nations
    "rape of nanjing"; horrible war crimes by japan unto china
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    wwii

    the whole shebang
    starts with blitzkrieg, germany invades poland, france
    "the blitz" - german attempt to take britain
    1941: german invasion of russia, japan attacks pearl harbor
    1944: d-day - british and us invade french coast, major allied victory
    1945: hitler & mussolini dead, germany surrenders, us bombs japan
    1947: truman doctrine (limit communism), marshall plan (rebuilding communities in western europe)
    1949: establishment of nato to defend from soviets holocaust
  • india gains independence

    tension between hindus and muslims
    pakistan forms as a majority muslim nation
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    cold war

    aggression between united states and soviet union (capitalism vs communism) america goes to war whenever communist nations try to expand (truman doctrine)
    - vietnam war, korean war, cuban missile crisis, afghan-soviet war
  • birth control

  • second red scare

    americans see communists as a threat
    people accused of socialism are fired, humiliated
    1947-1957
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    green revolution

    genetic engineering, new crops, more pesticide/fertilizer
    farming shifts away from small farmers to big companies
  • ho chi minh

    vietnam gains independence, communist leader ho chi minh starts war for control
    - communist north, democratic south
  • aids

    start of aids epidemic in united states
  • end of apartheid

    previously south africa was segregated by race
    nelson mandela: first black south african president after imperialism