Dates to know

  • 8000 BCE

    Beginning of agriculture

    Introduced patriarchy and people having to settle
  • 3000 BCE

    Beginning of bronze age

    Indian Bronze Age and marked the use of iron
  • 1300 BCE

    Iron age

    After the Bronze Age and marked the use of iron.
  • 600 BCE

    Beginnings of confusism and Buddhism

    Helped centralized different groups of people
  • 500 BCE

    Greek golden age

    Laid foundations of western civilization
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Created an empire stretching from Greece to Egypt into northwest India and Pakistan.
  • 221 BCE

    Qin unified China

    Fought through the warring states period
  • 3 BCE

    Korean War

    A war between North Korea and South Korea. American troops were brought in to help South Korea and China fought with North Korea.
  • 32

    Beginnings of christianity

    Viewed Jesus as the prophet
  • 180

    End of Pax Romana

    Death of Marcus Aurelius
  • 180

    End of Pax Romana

    Death of Marcus Aurelius
  • 220

    End of hen dynasty

    189 to 220, emperor xian
  • 220

    End of hen dynasty

    189 to 220, emperor Xian
  • 333

    Capital moved to Constantinople

    Originally called Byzantium
  • 333

    Capital moved to Constantinople

    Originally called Byzantium
  • 400

    Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade route

    Relay trade
  • 400

    Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade route

    Relay trade through the Sahara
  • 476

    Fall of Rome

    Invasions by barbarian tribes
  • 476

    Fall of Rome

    Invasions by barbarian tribes
  • 527

    Justinian rule of Byzantine

    Empire wanted it to look extravagant
  • 527

    Justinian rule of Byzantine

    The Empire wanted it to look extravagant
  • Jan 1, 632

    Rise of Islam

    Religion founded by Muhammad
  • Mar 28, 632

    Rise of Islam

    Religion founded by Muhammad
  • Jan 1, 732

    Battle of Tours

    End of Muslim move into France
  • Mar 28, 732

    Battle of tours

    End of Muslium over into France
  • Jan 1, 1021

    Battle of Manzikert

    Seljuk Turks over Byzantium
  • Jan 1, 1054

    1st schism in Christian church

    Divided chalcedonian into Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox
  • Jan 1, 1066

    Norman conquests of England

    Invasion and occupation led Duke William II of Norman
  • Jan 1, 1095

    1st crusade

    Sought to reclaim holy land
  • Jan 1, 1258

    Mongols sack Baghdad

    Entailed the investment to Mongol forces
  • Period: Jan 1, 1271 to Jan 1, 1295

    Marco Polo's travels

    Traveled on the Silk Road
  • Jan 1, 1324

    Mansa musa's pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage to Mecca and was west African emperor of Mali
  • Period: Jan 1, 1325 to Jan 1, 1349

    Travels to Ibn Battuta

    Traveled along the coast of North Africa
  • Period: Jan 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1348

    Bubonic plague in Europe

    Killed over half of the population
  • Jan 1, 1433

    End of Zheng He's voyages

    China started to close itself off from the rest of the world
  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottomans capture Constantinople

    This was the fall Of Constantinople
  • Jan 1, 1488

    Dias rounded Cape of Good hope

    Portuguese explorer
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus/ reconquista of Spain

    He landed in the Caribbean and slaughter many native
  • Jan 1, 1502

    1st slaves to Americas

    Introduced new agriculture and culture
  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther/ 95 theses

    He challenge the authority of the pope
  • Jan 1, 1521

    Cortez conquered Aztecs

    Mexico becomes a part of the Spanish Empire
  • Jan 1, 1533

    Pizarro toppled the Inca

    Mark the end of 300 years of Inca civilization
  • Jan 1, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

    This marked the defeat of Ottoman navy
  • Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British

    Protestant propaganda victory
  • Battle of Sekighara

    Unification of Japan and beginning of Takugana rule
  • Foundation of Jamestown

    First successful English settlement
  • Period: to

    30 years war

    Longest most destructive conflict in European history
  • Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

    Cumulated the battle of Vienna
  • Glorious revolution/ English bill of rights

    Overthrow of King James II of England
  • Period: to

    Seven year French and Indian war

    Fought between colonies of British America and New France
  • American Revolution/ smith writes wealth of nations

    Smith was highly concerned about the problems of poverty
  • French Revolution begins

    Social and political uproar sparked by enlightenment concepts
  • Haitian independence

    Use French Revolution s a prime example
  • Congress of Vienna

    Reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic wars
  • Independence in Latin America

    Were revolutions and they slipped out of three hands of Iberah powers
  • 1st opium war in china

    Opium Was a drug that tore Chinese society apart
  • European revolutions

    Marx and Engels wartime communist manifesto
  • Commodore Perry opens Japan

    Opening trade and outside influences go Japan
  • Sepoy mutiny

    This was the reason for the Indian rebellion of 1857
  • End of Russian serfdom unification

    Allowed all classes (except serfs) to own land
  • Emancipation proclamation in the US

    Issued by Arbaham Lincoln and changed the status of African Americans from slaves to freed Americans.
  • German unification

    Into a politically and administratively integrated nation state
  • Berlin conference

    Divided Africa into separate spheres of inference between European countries
  • Spanish American war

    US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico
  • Period: to

    Boer war

    British in control of South Africa. A fight between the United Kingdom and South African republic.
  • Russo- Japanese war

    Established Japan as a world power
  • Period: to

    Mexican Revolution

    A major armed struggle as an attempt to overthrow an authoritarian president
  • Chinese revolution

    Ended dynasty China and opened China up to communism
  • Beginning of World War I

    Introduced new technology while they still fought with old technology.
  • Russian Revolution

    Inspired the Soviet Union to rise after getting rid of the Soviet
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Was an unfair treaty that ended WWI while blaming it on the Germans
  • Stock market crash

    Resulted in the Great Depression
  • Japanese invasion of Manchuria

    Japanese had occupied several strategical points in south Manchuria
  • Italian invasion

    Ethiopia experienced the first Nazi fascist aggression
  • German blitzkrieg in Poland

    German Soviet pact stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers
  • Pearl Harbor

    Brought America into WWI
  • End of WWII

    Communism then took over Germany and erected the Berlin Wall
  • Independence and partition of India

    India gains independence from British colonies
  • Birth of Israel

    The Jewish homeland
  • Chinese communist revolution

    Followed models of the Soviet Union
  • Vietnamese defeat French at Dren Bien Phv

    Ended French colonial rule in Vietnam
  • De- Stalinization/ nationalization of Suez Canal

    Made conflict look inevitable
  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban missile crisis was an aspect of the Revolution
  • Cuban missile crisis

    Marked a success in the Soviet Union because Cuba underwent communism without any help from outside sources.
  • 6 day war/ Chinese cultural revolution

    In order to reassert Mao Zedongs authority over Chinese government
  • You Kippur War

    Hoped to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab- Israeli war
  • Iranian Revolution

    Refers to the events that followed the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty
  • 1st Palestine Intifada

    Was a Palestine uprising against Israel occupational
  • Tianamen squard

    Fall of Berlin Wall was a result of the war
  • Fall of USSR/ 1st gulf war

    Ended communism/ Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait
  • Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa

    Slaughter of Tutsi and Hutu
  • 9/11

    An attack on America from a terrorist group based on religion
  • Beginning of Tans Saharan

  • Beginning of Tans Saharan