All Flashcards
(107 cards)
1
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Beginnings of agriculture
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8000 BCE
2
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invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt)
A
3500 BCE
3
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Invention of writing in Mesopotamia
A
3200 BCE
4
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founding of first cities i n Sumeria
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3000 BCE
5
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invention of ironworking
A
7th century BCE
6
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Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and Greek Golden Age
A
5th century BCE
7
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Alexander the Great
A
323 BCE
8
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Qin unified China
A
221 BCE
9
Q
Fail of the Mauryan dynasty
A
184 BCE
10
Q
Beginnings of Christianity
A
32 CE
11
Q
end of Pax Romana
A
180 CE
12
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end of Han Dynasty
A
220 CE
13
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Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity
A
312 CE
14
Q
Rise of the Gupta in India
A
320
15
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Roman capital moved to Constantinople
A
333
16
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Fall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman hegemony
A
476
17
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Justinian rules Byzantine Empire
A
527
18
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Fall of the Gupta in India
A
550
19
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Rise of Islam
A
622
20
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Printing invented in China
A
730
21
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Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France)
A
732
22
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Decline of classical Maya
A
900
23
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Schism of Greek and Latin Christian Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical
and denominational halves
A
1054
24
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Norman Conquest of England
A
1066
25
Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)
1071
26
1 s t Crusade
1095
27
Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia
1206
28
Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: beginning of constitutional rule.
1215
29
Mongols sack Baghdad
1258
30
Marco Polo travels
1271-1295
31
Rise of Ottomans
1300s
32
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
1324
33
travels of Ibn Battuta
1325-1349
34
Bubonic plague in Europe
1347-1348
35
end of Zheng He's voyages
1433
36
Rise of the Inca
1438
37
Ottomans capture Constantinople
1453
38
Aztec Empire at its height
1486
39
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1488
40
Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain
1492
41
first African slaves transported to Caribbean
1502
42
Martin Luther/ 95 theses - Protestant Reformation
1517
43
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1521
44
Pizarro toppled the Inca
1533
45
discovery of silver at Potosi
1545
46
Battle of Lepanto - naval defeat of Ottomans
1571
47
defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588
48
Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa Shogonate
1600
49
founding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619)
1607
50
30 years war in Europe
1618-1648
51
End of Ming Dynasty - rise of the Qing
1644
52
Establishment of Cape Town Colony
1652
53
unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1683
54
Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights
1689
55
7 years war/French and Indian War
1756-1763
56
Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines
1767
57
The American Declaration of Independence
1775
58
American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
1776
59
French Revolution - The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
1789
60
Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases
1796
61
Haitian independence
1804
62
British Abolition of the slave trade
1807
63
Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution
1810-1825
64
Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: the Napoleonic Empire ends)
1815
65
1 s t opium war between China and England
1839
66
European revolutions/Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto/The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference
in 1848
1848
67
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1853-
68
Sepoy Mutiny in India
1857-
69
end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
1861
70
Emancipation Proclamation issued in US
1863
71
German unification
1871
72
Berlin Conference and Benz develops first petrol-driven car
1885
73
New Zealand is the first to award women suffrage; other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow
1893
74
Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend off Italians.
1896
75
Spanish-American War - Spain loses colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines)
1898
76
Boer War - Dutch under British rule in South Africa
1899
77
Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of special relativity published
1905
78
Mexican Revolution
1910 -1920
79
Chinese Revolution
1911
80
WWI/ Treaty of Versailles
1914 -1919
81
Russian Revolution
1917
82
stock market crash/ Great Depression
1929
83
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931
84
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1935
85
German blitzkrieg in Poland
1939
86
Pearl Harbor
1941
87
Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad
1943
88
end of WWII - and dropping of atomic bombs on Japan
1945
89
freedom & partition of India
1947
90
birth of Israel / The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948
91
Chinese Communist Revolution
1949
92
Korean War
1950-1953
93
Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1954
94
de-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal
1956
95
Ghana is first African nation to gain independence
1957
96
Cuban Revolution and Invention of the silicon chip (beginning of computer age).
1959
97
6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution
1967
98
Yom Kippur War
1973
99
Iranian Revolution
1979
100
1 s t Palestinian Intifada
1987
101
Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall - Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe
1989
102
Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa
1990
103
Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf war
1991
104
Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in S. Africa
1994
105
9/11 attacks / War in Afghanistan
2001
106
Great Global Recession begins
2007
107
Wikileaks - Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, Yemenese, Syrian, mmBahraini etc. democracy movement
2011
