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The first time humans began growing crops, and the beginning of civilization.
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The start of civilization, and the beginning of the use of bronze for tools, weapons and other goods.
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The period after the Bronze Age, where iron was mined and used for tools, weapons, and other goods.
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A fight between Islamic invasion forces and the Frankish/European forces, led by Charles Martel. Stopped Islam from spreading to France.
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The period of origin, where Chinese philosophy and religion first time shape.
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The Classical Period or Golden age of Greece, from around 500 to 300 BC, has given us the great monuments, art, philosophy, architecture and literature which are the building blocks of Western civilization.
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An Ancient Greek King, from Macedonia, hailed the throne from his father King Philip. Conquered Persia and created the Greek empire.
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Qin Shihuang Di was the emperor and unifier of China, this was the first time China was fully unified. He did this in a rather short period of time.
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Started the period of the spread of the Christian faith throughout the Roman Empire, and eventually throughout the world.
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The end of Roman peace, which lasted 207 years, ended because of German invasion.
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The end of Han China, caused by a rise of new control by a new family, Cao Wei became the new emperor of China which started the new dynasty.
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Was the first thing many people saw when traveling through the Roman Empire from Asia. The reason Constantinople became the capital was because it was easier to defend.
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The start of an important trade route that spanned across Africa, and was important in trade between African empires, and Europe and Asia
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The fall of Rome meant the collapse of the sole great power of Europe, which left the rest of Europe vulnerable to invasion from the Middle East and Africa.
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re-established the Roman Empire, created the Justinian code and made Europe more Christianized.
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The rise of Islam created an identity in the Middle East, was created by the followings of Muhammed, God called Allah.
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First formed by Muhammed and his followers, became is the religious icon of the Middle East and the second largest religion in the world.
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Sparked by tensions concerning corruption of the Catholic Church, split the church into the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
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The Norman conquest of England was the 11th century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled as William the Conqueror.
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A battle between the Turks and the Byzantine Empire, led to the capture of the Emperor and undermined the Byzantine rule over Anatolia.
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The first of many attempts to recapture the holy land, led to the recapture of Jerusalem from the Arabs in 1099
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The sacking and capture of Baghdad under Hulagu Khan, end of the Islamic Golden age.
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An expedition by an explorer named Marco Polo, from Asia, explored Asia.
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A piligrimmage to Mecda by Mensa Musa, King of the Mali Empire. Brought 12,000 slaves, and 60,000 men, as well as a bunch of gold he gave to the poor along the way and built a mosque every Friday on his way to Mecca.
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Originally a hajj to Mecca, ended up covering 75,000 miles and travelled to 44 countries, spread Islam.
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A terrible disease, from China that travelled across the Silk Road in to Europe. Killed about 60% of Europe's population.
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Ended the Chinese voyages for good, emperor destroyed the entire fleet and prevented China from likely discovering America.
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Siege that lasted 53 days, and ended the Byzantine Empire.
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The Spanish settlement in North America, and enslavement of many Caribbean natives.
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Started the African slave trade, caused by the lack of Native American slaves in North America.
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Promoted talk over catholic traditions and their corruptness, led to the second schism of Christianity, discovery of Protestantism.
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Conquering if the Aztec by Cortes and Spain, most of the population became slaves and dug for gold and silver.
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Portuguese explorer that travelled around Africa into the Indian Ocean, the first European to do so.
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Pizzaro led the Spanish campaign to the Incan empire, they shared the same fate as the Aztecs, with the emperor being executed and the people being used as a slaves.
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Battle between the Holy League and the Ottomans, led to the destruction of the ottoman navy.
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Marked the defeat of the Spanish navy and crushing of their invasion plans, led by Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Duke
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Was a decisive battle between the Tokugawa clan and Toyotomi clan/Diamyo that unified Japan and established the Tokugawa era.
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First British settlement in America, named after King James I.
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War between the Hapsburg states and the Anti-Hapsburg states, fight between Protestants and Catholics.
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Siege led by Suleimen and the Ottomans against the Holy Roman Empire and European allies. They were defeated, if they won, Islam would've likely spread through the heart of Europe.
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The overthrow of the British King James II, and establishment of the British parliament.
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War between the French and Indian allies, and the British. Started by conflict between the two imperial forces, led to the French forfeit of land east of the Mississippi River.
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The revolution of the thirteen American colonies of the British, led to war between the two. Resulted in the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the United States of America.
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Start of a 10 year conflict in France, the people wanted to end the monarchal rule by King Louis the 16th and his poor leadership and bankruptsy of France. Led to a short period of republican rule before Napolean toke over.
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Independence of Haiti from France, what was once the wealthiest country became a barren land with few to little any crops left. Caused by French superiority and lack of fairness for the colonists and natives.
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Conference of ambassadors from European states, wanted to settle critical disputes that arose from the French Revolution and Napoleonjc wars.
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Caused by the Latin American Wars of Independence were the revolutions that took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in Latin America. Freed Latin America from colonist rule.
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War between the British empire and China because of disputes over opium dumping by China. Led to one-sided treaties and granted more access to China for Europe.
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Republican revolts against European monarchies. Communist manifesto sparked the start of a communist uprising and the spread of Marxism/Communism throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
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America gains access to Japanese trade over a treaty, japan feared they would suffer the same fate of China from the western nations.
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An Indian rebellion against British rule and the British East Indian company.
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The ending of Russian slavery/serfdom by Alexander II due to pressure from European nations. The Italian unification was led by Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe garibaldi, caused by a political and social movement among statss in the Italian peninsula.
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A proclamation issued by Lincoln to end slavery in the United States.
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Otto van Bismarck united Germany through a series of wars and conflicts, such as the Prussian war.
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The conference between European powers, to divide Africa amongst each other, and settle conflicts over who gets what.
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Spanish American war was between the Americans and Spain. It led to victory for the American led by president Theodore Roosevelt, and the recolonization of Cuba, Guam and Puerto Rico by the United States. Spain also gave America the Philippines in a treaty.
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A war between the British and the South African republic of claim of South African territory
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A war between Russia and Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Korea and Manchuria. Led to a Japanese victory, and their rise as a World power.
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A conflict in Mexico between democratic forces and nazi supported forces that shaped Mexican culture and politics.
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Was the overthrow of the Qing dynasty rule, and the starting point for more a democratic government in China, and eventually the communist party of China.
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Was a war between the central powers and the allied powers. Test of strength between European powers, started over assassination of archduke. Ended in allied power victory.
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The removal of the tsar system, replaced by the Bolshevik party (communism).
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Effectively ended the Great War, signed in France by European nations.
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The crash that began the Great Depression, caused by the vast production of goods in America, but there was no where to sell them because Europe was still recovering.
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Japan sought imperial expansion, so they invaded Manchuria, to gain power in Asia and hopefully have strategic point to invade China from.
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Resulted from the Berlin conference, in which Europe colonized Africa. Italy made a one sided treaty that was '"mistranslated', led to Italy taking Ethiopia by force instead of sneaky negotiation tactics, Ehtiopia won because they had western arms.
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German sought for land to farm with and to move German people into in order to become self-sufficient, invaded Poland as a result, one of the causes for WWII
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, hoped to destroy the American pacific navy fleet and prevent America from joining the war. Resulted in America joining in the war, and retaliating against Japan.
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Europe was in turmoil, but quickly recovered with the help of the United States. Left America and Russia as the sole two world powers of the world. Ended the Nazi regime.
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The Indian Independence Act 1947 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan
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Set up by west end powers, created a homeland for all the Jews who had no national identity, toke land from Palestine and established it as Israel.
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On 1 October 1949 Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was a time of revolution, upheaval and bloodshed. The events of that period, and the first decades of communist rule which followed, forged the identity of modern China.
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An American and South Korean effort to prevent Communism from spreading, resulted into Korea dividing into North and South Korea.
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Vietnamese fought off French control over the nation in this battle, supported by China and led to Vietnam becoming independent and a communist nation.
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effort to remove Stalinist ideals and communist control over Suez Canal
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Armed revolt against the current Cuban government, led by Fidel Castro and supported by the soviets.
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A crisis where the soviets armed Cuba with nukes, caused conflict with America and nearly led to a nuclear war.
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In 1966, China's Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.
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was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. The military combat actions during the war mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights, territories that were occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967. Egypt and Syria wanted to regain the Sinai and the Golan Heights respectively
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refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States, campaign of civil resistance against the shah
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was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
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The Tiananmen Square was a student led protest in China against the wide splits of China's political leadership. The fall of Berlin Wall marked reunification of Germany, and the end of Russian rule over east Germany.
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USSR fell largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. An American retaliation over the Iranian invasion of Kuwait, led to the gulf war.
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The genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi and Hutu people by members of majority Hutu government. First all race election led to the election of Nelson Mendela as the first black president of South Africa.
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Attacks done by terrorists against the America, caused the Great War on terrorism and future wars in the Middle East.