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Jan 1, 1300
Little Ice Age
A Global Cooling Down. PEAK: 1645-1715 -
Jun 12, 1400
Third Wave Axial thought
Complex empires and such
11th century renaissance men use study of antiquity to reinvigorate multiple fields of learning hoping to improve the moral fiber of modern times -
Jun 12, 1400
Zheng He's Voyages
Early 1400s... 1433 withdrawal -
Jun 12, 1400
Portuguese Exploration begins
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: divide the new world with Spain -
Jun 12, 1450
Columbian Exchange
up to 1750--- massive transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases -
Jun 12, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
Byzantine Shrink, end of Roman Empire -
Jun 12, 1517
Protestant Reformation
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Jun 12, 1545
Counter Reformation
Catholics Reaffirmed doctrine -
Jesuits arrived in China
Matteo Ricci arrives in china aiming chinese elite... exchange ideas and Christianity doesn't work in China because it requires people to abandon traditional culture...like crusade -
Thirty Year's War
up to 1648
Catholic protestant conflict in Germany -
Treaty of Nerchinsk
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Newcomen Engine
The first practical device to harness the power of steam to produce mechanical work... pumping water out of mines -
American Revolution
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Industrial Revolution Begins
BLAH IHUM SHITTY BLAH -
French Revolution
up to 1799
constitutional monarchy and social class maintenance -
Peak of Atlantic Slave Trade late 1700s
Atlantic Slave trade peaked in late 1700s -
Rights movements
abolitionist movement -
Second opium war
up to 1858
Lin Zexu against Opium - > British are like... F U. And they do battle, and win more trade back. -
Italian Unification/ German unification
up to 1870 Italian state unite... Garibaldi invades sicily... victor emmanuel a constitutional monarch now unites Italy -
Second Wave Industrial Revolution
influential peoples like rockefeller, carnegie, vanderbilt, morgan -
Emergence of the modern Turkish state
up to 1938 -
Nuclear Age
Period after first atom bomb detonation in 1945 -
Third World's War
up to 1991 between USSR AND US.
Cold War became globalized... -
1970s African Nations gain independence
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Movements
throughout 1900 women's rights, labor unions national liberation, gay liberation, civil rights -
Cuban Missile Crisis
BIG BOOM -
Chinese Cultural Revolution
up to 1976 -
Green Revolution
A series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives between the 40s and 70s that increase agriculture production around the world beginning in the 60s -
Synthesis of Artificial Life
Synthesis of the first complete gene by Har Gobind Khorana -
Iranian Revolution
Islam has increasing influence in the world. Independence from colonial rule, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, repeated wars between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the rising price of oil—all of this focused global attention on the Islamic world in the
second half of the twentieth century. -
Chernobyl Disaster
BIG BOOM