AP World History timeline

By yuki887
  • 2000 BCE

    Hinduism started

  • Period: 625 BCE to 476

    Roman Empire

  • 400 BCE

    buddhism started

  • 200 BCE

    start of Indian Ocean trade

  • 130 BCE

    start of Silk Roads

    Golden Ages:
    130BCE-Han Dynasty and Roman Empire
    700CE-Tang Dynasty and Abbasid Caliphate
    1300CE-Mongols
  • 5

    birth of Jesus

  • 50

    emerge of Christianity

    Christianity appeared at mid-first century
  • Period: 100 to 940

    Axum

    before Ethiopia
  • Period: 250 to 900

    the golden age of Maya

  • 312

    Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity

    previously Christains were persucuted
  • Period: 330 to 1453

    Byzantine WMpire

  • 395

    Roman Empire was divided

  • Period: 543 to

    Sinhala empire

  • Period: 602 to 664

    Xuan Zang

    Buddhist from Chian(Tang Dynasty) who traveled to India and helped to spread influence of Buddhism in Chian
  • 610

    the start of Islam

  • Period: 618 to 907

    Tang Dynasty

  • Period: 618 to 907

    Tang Dynasty

  • 632

    death of Muhammad

  • Period: 671 to 1025

    srivijaya empire

    Hinduism
  • 700

    start of true trans-Saharan trade

  • 711

    Muslims invaded Spain(Al-Andalus formed)

  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Abbasid Caliphate

    Seljuk Turks from Central Asia controlled Abbasid Caliphate from 11th century
    Abbasid Caliphate ended after Mongols invaded Baghdad
  • Period: 750 to 850

    Shailendra dynasty

    in Java
    Borobudur--largest Buddhist building in the world
  • Period: 802 to 1431

    Khmer Empire

    Angkor Wat--mixture of Islamic and Buddhist buildings
  • Period: 830 to 1235

    Ghana Empire

  • Period: 850 to 1287

    Bagan

  • Period: 850 to 1267

    Chola Dynasty

    Hinduism
  • Period: 907 to 979

    Five Dynaties and Ten Kingdoms Period

  • Period: 918 to 1392

    Goryeo Dynasty(Korea)

  • Period: 960 to 1127

    Nothern Song Dynasty

  • Period: 1000 to 1500

    Swahili city states

    east African coast
    ruling class was Muslim
    participated in Indian Ocean trade(gold,slave)
  • Period: 1054 to

    Da Viet

    1400-1428 ruled by China
  • Jul 16, 1054

    Orthodox Christianity split from Catholic Christianity

  • Period: 1096 to 1099

    The First Crusade

    The war started by the Christian powers to reconquer the holy land Jerusalem form the Islamic power
  • 1100

    foundation of Timbuktu

    the first university in Africa in Mali
  • 1122

    Concordate of Worms

    The treaty about the right to create bishops(led to conflicts between Holy Roman Empire and the Pope previously)--eliminated secukar leaders' right to bestow bishops but left them some right in imprtant decisions
  • Period: 1127 to 1279

    Southern Song Dynasty

  • Period: 1147 to 1149

    The Second Crusade

  • 1162

    birth of Temujin(future Genghis Khan)

  • Period: 1189 to 1192

    The Third Crusade

  • 1200

    founding of Inca capital city Cuzco

  • Period: 1200 to 1500

    Bhakti Movement

  • Period: 1202 to 1204

    The Fourth Crusade

  • 1203

    start of estate general

    organization of clergy,nobilities and commonersadvising king but has no reak power
    later meeting regarded as the beginning of French Revolution
  • 1206

    Temujin became leader of Mongols and took the title of Genghis Khan

  • Period: 1206 to 1368

    IL-Khanate

  • Period: 1206 to 1526

    Delhi Sultanate

    Islam
  • 1210

    Gneghis Khan attacked Jin Dynasty

  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    The treaty guaranteeing nobility right
  • 1219

    Genghis Khan conquers Kara Khitai ans Khawarazm empires in Central Asia

  • Period: 1220 to 1450

    Great Zimbabwe

    abandoned because of overgrazing
  • Period: 1226 to 1348

    Chagatai Khanate

  • Period: 1226 to

    Mali Empire

  • 1227

    Genghis Khan died

    after his death:
    ruler:(son)Ogedei 1227-1241
    (son)Mongke 1251-1259
  • 1234

    Jing Dynasty being defeated by Mongols

  • 1236

    Batu(grandson of GK) set up Golden Horde(Russia)

  • Period: 1242 to 1502

    Golden Horde

  • Period: 1250 to 1350

    Pax Mongolica

    Mongol thriving period--peace and increasing interaction
  • Period: 1250 to 1517

    Mamluk Sultanate

  • 1258

    Hulegu(grandson of GK) set up IL-Khanate(Abbasid Caliphate-central Asia(Persia))

    sacking Baghdad
  • 1265

    The first British parlimant met

    initial:nobles--deciding policies
    later:commoners-tax and trade
    lords
  • Period: 1270 to

    Ethiopia

    Christianity
    build big churchs to show the authority and power of the
    ruler
  • Period: 1271 to 1295

    Marco Polo

    European who travele dto China(Yuan Dynasty) and otehr Asian ares. He recorded China as an extremely advanced country.
  • Period: 1271 to 1368

    Yuan Dynasty

  • 1279

    Kublai Kha(grandson of GK) established Yuan Dynasty(China)

  • 1290

    Jews expelled from England

    Jews worked as moneylenders because Christians were prohibited from lending money for interest, howevre they were persecuted because of that--rise of antisemitism(abuse and massaacres common)
  • Period: 1293 to 1527

    Majapahit Empire

    Buddhism
  • 1303

    start of Little Ice Age

    led to population decrease
  • Period: 1304 to 1355

    Ibn Battuta

    Muslim who traveled to Asian and African Muslim lands
  • Period: 1312 to 1337

    the rule of Mansa Musa in Mali Empire

    He was a rich ruler in Mali who was a Muslim.
  • 1324

    the hajj to Mecca organized by Mansa Musa

  • 1325

    founding of the Aztec Empire capital city Tenochtitlan

  • Period: 1325 to 1521

    Aztec Empire

  • 1331

    Black Death started in northeast China

  • Period: 1336 to

    Vijayanagara Empire

    Hinduism
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred years' war

    France won the war while Britain lost the war
  • 1347

    Black Death reached Europe and Middle East

  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    Black Death(Bubonic Plague)

    killed 1/4-1/2 population
    1340-1370:China's population fell by 15-30%
    1348-1350:25-50% of Europeans died
    Middle Eats lost 1/3 of its population by 15th century
    India and sub-Saharan Africa less affected
  • 1358

    the Jacquerie

    France--peasants' revolt--against lords' control
  • 1368

    start of Ming Dynasty

    Zhu Yuanhzhang successfully defeated Mongols
  • Period: 1373 to 1440

    Margery Kempe

    Christian mother with many kinds who took pilgrimage ti Jerusalem, Rome, Germany, and Spain--could not write/read-someone recoreded her description
  • 1381

    The Peasants' Revolt

    Britain
  • 1394

    Jews expelled from France

  • 1400

    rapid expansion of Aztec and Inca Empire

    around this year
  • 1409

    Black Death reached East Africa

  • Period: 1438 to 1533

    Inca Empire

  • 1453

    Constantinople fell to Ottomans

  • Period: 1460 to

    Songhai Empire

  • Sep 8, 1480

    the Mongols were kicked out of Russia

    led by Ivan III
  • Period: 1490 to 1520

    Renaissance

    humanism
    printing press-more books demanded
    art revival-realistic
  • 1492

    Jews expelled from Spain

  • 1497

    Jews expelled from Portugal

  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    conquest of Aztec Empire by Spanish

  • Period: 1532 to 1533

    conquest of most Inca Empire by Spanish

  • 1572

    end of the last Aztec resistance to Spanish rule

  • Period: to

    Ethiopia conquered by Italy