Dates

Question 1

Beginning of Japanese isolation

Answer 1

1640’s

Question 2

Beginning of the Russian empire

Answer 2

1552

Question 3

Start of the Atlantic slave trade

Answer 3

1441

Question 4

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

Answer 4

1524

Question 5

Reign of genghis khan

Answer 5

1206-1227

Question 6

Rise of the kingdom of mali

Answer 6

1200

Question 7

Vasco da Grams reaches India

Answer 7

1498

Question 8

Start of Protestant reformation

Answer 8

1517

Question 9

Ottomans conquer Constantinople

Answer 9

1453

Question 10

Spread of bubonic plague

Answer 10

1320-1340

Question 11

Founding of the yuan dynasty

Answer 11

1271

Question 12

Zheng He voyages

Answer 12

1405-1433

Question 13

Louis XIV in France; absolut monarchy

Answer 13

1643-1715

Question 14

Founding of Manila; world trade system

Answer 14

1571

Question 15

Beginning of the Ming dynasty

Answer 15

1368

Question 16

Founding of the Mughal empire

Answer 16

1526

Question 17

Founding of Tokugawa shogunate

Answer 17

1603

Question 18

Rise of the Inca empire

Answer 18

1350

Question 19

Columbus expeditions

Answer 19

1492

Question 20

Italian renaissance

Answer 20

1304-1374

Question 21

Swahili states flourish

Answer 21

1400

Question 22

Commercial revolution in Europe

Answer 22

16th century

Question 23

Rise of feudalism in japan

Answer 23

12th century

Question 24

First British colony in North America

Answer 24

1607

Question 25

Scientific revolution

Answer 25

1600-1690

Question 26

Pizarro conquers the Inca

Answer 26

1533

Question 27

Founding of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 27

1281

Question 28

Rise of the Aztec empire

Answer 28

1325

Question 29

Mary Wollstonecraft; feminism

Answer 29

1792

Question 30

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 30

1823

Question 31

Latin American wars of independence

Answer 31

1808-1825

Question 32

Mahammed ali rules Egypt

Answer 32

1805-1849

Question 33

Haitian Revolution

Answer 33

1792-1804

Question 34

French Revolution and Napoleon

Answer 34

1789-1815

Question 35

American revolution

Answer 35

1775-1783

Question 36

Opium Wars

Answer 36

1839- 1841

Question 37

Tanzimat reforms in ottoman empire

Answer 37

1839-1879

Question 38

Communist manifesto; marxism

Answer 38

1848

Question 39

British raj in India

Answer 39

1858

Question 40

Emancipation of serfs in Russia

Answer 40

1861

Question 41

British abolish slavery

Answer 41

1833

Question 42

Meiji restoration; Japanese industrialize

Answer 42

1868-1914

Question 43

Unification of Germany

Answer 43

1871

Question 44

Hight of European imperialism

Answer 44

1871-1914

Question 45

Democratic transition of the west

Answer 45

1880

Question 46

Berlin conference

Answer 46

1924-1925

Question 47

Founding of Indian National Congress

Answer 47

1885

Question 48

Abolition of slavery in Brazil and Cuba

Answer 48

1888

Question 49

Russian industrialization

Answer 49

1884-1914

Question 50

Fall of Soviet Union

Answer 50

1991

Question 51

End of apartheid in South Africa

Answer 51

1990

Question 52

Iranian Revolution

Answer 52

1979

Question 53

“Year of Africa”

Answer 53

1960