1-15 Flashcards
1260
Battle of Ain Jalut, Mongols lost
Ghazan
last ruler of the Ilkhanate
Lord George McCartney
failure to kowtow
Mughal Empire
Akbar the Great, Aurangzeb
1661
Aurangzeb gave port of Bombay to GB
1545
Spanish discovered silver @ Potosi
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
invaded Kor
1637
Shimabara Rebellion, Jpn persecution of Christ.
1713
War of Spanish Succession
War of Spanish Succession
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Utrecht
asiento - monopoly of slave trade
Queen Nzinga
resistance to Portuguese
Palmares
Brazil, lgest settlement of runaway slaves
1521
Edict of Worms - Luther = outlaw
1555
Peace of Augsburg - relig decided by states
Jesuits
Educate, Convert, + Stop Protestantism
1545
Council of Trent
Church - right
Kepler
elliptical orbit
Francis Bacon
scientific method
John Locke
“Life, liberty, + property”
1690
Two Treatises on Government
Voltaire
relig toleration
Montesquieu
separation of powers
Rousseau
less gov
Diderot
Encyclopedia
Tennis Court Oath
New constitution
National Convention
declared a republic
1804
Napoleon emperor
1848
Napoleon elected president
1801
Haitian Constitution
1824
Battle of Ayacucho, LA ind
Dom Pedro
ruled Brazil
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1821
wrld’s 1st railroad
Thomas Malthus
poor ppl will always be there
David Ricardo
Comparative advantage
Jeremy Bentham
utilitarianism
1833
Factory Act: children more protected regarding work
1884-1885
Berlin Conference
1896
Battle of Adowa
1757
Battle of Plassey
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
1908
Persia discovery of oil
1839
Opium War of 1839 –> Treaty of Nanjing
1889
Open Door Policy
1894
Sino-Japanese War
1882
Triple Alliance
1887
Alliance w/ Rus
1888
Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser
1907
Triple Entente
1908
A-H annexed Bosnia + Herzegovina
1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated, declared war, 1st Battle of the Marnes (taxicabs)
Battle of the Somme
1st use of tanks
1918
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
11/9/1918
Kaiser Wilhelm II steps down
1930
Zhenotdel abolished by Stalin
10/29/1929
“Black Tuesday”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ubermensch
11/9/1938
Kristallnacht
1935
Nuremberg Laws
Munich Conference
gave Hitler Sudetenland
9/1/1939
Invasion of Poland
1937
Rape of Nanjing
8/9/1941
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter
free trade among nations + right to choose own gov
1945
GR + Jpn surrendered
1944
Bretton Woods Conference
Bretton Woods Conference
prevent another Great Depression
1950
Great Leap Forward
(Great Proletarian) Cultural Revolution
purged of capitalists
1947
India gains independence
1976
Mao Zedong dies
Four Asian Tigers
Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
1776
Adam Smith’s On the Wealth of Nations
1868
Meiji Restoration
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana ind
Nelson Mandela
against African Apartheid
Guru Nanak
sikhism