A Peoples History of the World Flashcards
1
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Australopithecus walks on 2 legs
A
4 million years ago
2
Q
Clearly human species, Homo erectus.
A
1.5 to .5 million years ago
3
Q
First ‘modern humans’ - Homo sapiens sapiens
A
150,000 years ago
4
Q
Modern humans in Middle East
A
80,000 years ago
5
Q
Modern humans cross to Australia
A
40,000 years ago
6
Q
Modern humans arrive in Europe
A
30,000 years ago
7
Q
Modern humans establish Americas
A
14,000 years ago
8
Q
First agricultural revolution
A
10,000 years ago
9
Q
Old Kingdom Egypt
A
5000 years ago
3000 BC
10
Q
Alarick’s Goths sack Rome
A
410
11
Q
Sui Dynasty rises in China
A
581
12
Q
T’ang Dynasty rises in China
A
618
13
Q
Mohammed takes Mecca
A
630
14
Q
Abbasid revolution
A
750
15
Q
Mongols Sack Baghdad
A
1258
16
Q
Mongols Conquer China
A
1279
17
Q
‘Crusaders’ capture Jerusalem
A
1099-1187
18
Q
‘Crusaders’ sack Byzantium
A
1204
19
Q
Columbus crosses Atlantic
A
1492
20
Q
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
A
1453
21
Q
High point of Italian Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Macchiavelli
A
1450-1520
22
Q
Lutheran Reformation sweeps southern Germany
A
1518-1525
23
Q
Cortes conquers Aztecs
A
1519-1521
24
Q
Mongul conquest of northern India
A
1529
25
Pizarro conquers Inca Empire
1532
26
Copernicus publishes a theory of the universe after 30 year delay
1540
27
Ivan the Terrible centralises power in Russia, begins conquest of Siberia
1544-84
28
Wave of witch-burning
1560-1630
29
Shakespeare writes first plays
1590's
30
Giordano Bruno burnt at stake by Inquisition
1600
31
Kepler in Prague calculates orbits of planets accurately
1609
32
Galileo uses telescope to observe moon
1609
33
Thirty Years War begins in Bohemia
1618
34
First English colonies established in North America
1620's and 30's
35
Harvey describes circulation of blood
1628
36
Galileo condemned by Inquisition
1637
37
Descartes/ Discourse on Method begins 'rationalist' school of philosophy
1637
38
Rembrant paints in Amsterdam
1630's to 60's
39
End of Thirty Years War
1648
40
Hobbes' Leviathan - materialist defence of conservative politics
1651
41
Beginning of plantation slavery in Americas, 20,000 black slaves in Barbados
1653
42
England wins wars against Holland, takes Jamaica
1655
43
Boyle discovers law of gases, defends theory of atoms
1662
44
Newton completes revolution in physics
1687
45
Whites and blacks unite in Bacon's rebellion in Virginia
1687
46
Century mongol empire breaks up in India
18th cent
47
Unification of England and Scotland
1707
48
Voltaire publishes first philosophical work
1734
49
Century Bach develops counterpoint and fugue form in music
18th cent
50
Century Rousseau publishes Discourse on the Origins of Inequality and The Social Contract
18th cent
51
Voltaire publishes satirical novel Candide pouring scorn on optimism
1759
52
Century of 'Scottish Enlightenment' of David Hume, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith
18th cent
53
Britain defeats France in war over control of new colonial lands
1763
54
Watt and Boulton build first generally applicable steam engines
1775
55
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations preaches order based on 'free labour' and 'free trade'
1776
56
Declaration of Independence declares 'all men are created equal' (but is silent over question of slavery)
1776
57
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
1786
58
Mozart: Don Giovanni
1787
59
Boston Tea Party
1773
60
Fighting at Lexington and Bunker Hill
1775
61
British defeat at yorktown
1781
62
Storming of Bastille, beggining of French Revolution
1789
63
Slave revolt in St Domingue (Caribbean island of Hispaniola)
1791
64
French revolutionary war, Battle of Valmy, execution of king
1792
65
Jacobin gov led by Robespierre rule France and 'Terror' begins
1793
66
Rising against British rule in Ireland, formation of Orange Order to combat it
1798
67
Napoleon takes all power in France
1799
68
Beethoven's Eroica symphony
1804
69
Napoleon becomes emperor
1805
70
Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind
1807
71
Britain bans slave trade
1807
72
First risings against Spanish rule in Mexico and Venezuela.
1810
73
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1815
74
World's first passenger railway
1830
75
Faraday discovers electric induction
1831
76
Opium War against China
1839-42
77
Great Irish Famine
1846-49
78
The Communist Manifesto
1847
79
British complete conquest of northern India
1843-56
80
Darwin's The Origin of Species
1859
81
American Civil War begins
1861
82
Lincoln declares end of slavery
1863
83
Defeat of American South in Civil War
1865
84
Nobel discovers dynamite
1866
85
Franco-Prussian War. Fall of Louis Bonaparte
1870
86
Paris Commune, workers control city, then Republican government attacks city, killing thousands.
1871
87
First electric machine
1873
88
Troops withdraw from Southern states of US, rise of 'Jim Crow' segregation
Mid 1870's
89
Carve up of Africa
1880's
90
Spanish-American War
1898
91
Boer War - British set up first concentration camps
1899-1902
92
Mendel's genetic theory gains publicity, 16 years after his death
1900
93
First airplane
1903
94
Russia loses war with Japan
1904
95
Revolution in Russia
1905
96
Industrial Workers of World founded
1905
97
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
1905
98
Mexican Revolution
1911
99
Balkan Wars
1912-13
100
Ford mass production car plant
1913
101
Outbreak of First World War
1914
102
Russian Revolutions, mutinies in French army and German navy, US enters WWI
1917
103
Civil war in Germany and Versailles Treaty ends WWI
1919
104
Italian Fascists given power
1922
105
Nazi putsch
1923
106
Heisenberg's quantum theory
1925
107
Massacre of workers in Shanghai
1927
108
Leon Trotsky exiled
1927
109
Stalin takes all power
1928
110
Wall Street Crash
1929
111
Revolution is Spain
1931
112
Hitler takes power
1933
113
Hitler takes Austria, Munich agreement annexes portions of Czechoslovakia
1938
114
German invades Poland and WW2 begins
1939
115
France falls and Italy enters WW2
1940
116
Hitler attacks Russia
1941
117
Japan attacks US fleet at Pearl Harbor
1941
118
Nazis draw up plans for Holocaust
1942
119
Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
1945
120
First computer
1947
121
Beginning of Cold War. Marshall Plan, Prague coup, Berlin airlift, Yugoslav split with Russia, McCarthyism in US. Chinese People's Liberation Army enters Beijing.
1947-49
122
Korean War
1950
123
Indonesian independence from Dutch
1950
124
Mau Mau rebellion against Britain in Kenya
1952-57
125
Death of Stalin
1953
126
US explodes H-bomb
1953
127
Geneva agreement ends war in Korea and divides Vietnam
1954
128
CIA overthrows Guatemalan government
1954
129
Montgomery bus boycott starts civil rights movement in US
1955-56
130
Egypt nationalises Suez Canal, attacked by Britain, France and Isreal. Khrushchev denounces Stalin. Hungarian Revolution
1956
131
Nationalist revolution in Iraq
1958
132
Castro's rebels take Havana
1959
133
Abortive CIA invasion of Cuba. First split between Russia and China. US 'advisers' in Vietnam.
1961
134
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
135
Military coup in Indonesia, half a million people killed
1965
136
Founding of Black Panthers
1967
137
Tet Offensive in Vietnam
1968
138
Strikes bring down Gomulka in Poland. Election of Allende in Chile. US invasion of Cambodia, students shot dead at Kent State University.
1970
139
Outbreak of world recession
1974
140
CIA sponsors civil war in Angola
1976
141
Turmoil in China after death of Mao, first market reforms
1976-77
142
Iranian Revolution, 'Islamic Republic'. Sandinistas take power in Nicaragua. Russia invades Afghanistan.
1979
143
Iraqi war against Iran with US backing
1980
144
First PC's using silicon chip
1980
145
Cruise missiles in Europe. 'Second Cold War'. Civil war in El Salvador, US Contra terrorism against Nicaragua. Polish military crush Solidarnosc.
1981
146
Falklands War
1982
147
US invasion of Grenada
1983
148
Glasnost permits first free debate for 60 years in USSR
1987
149
Tiananmen Square protests in China, miners' strike in Russia, political revolutions across Eastern Europe. Rise of Milosovic in Serbia. US invasion of Panama. Scientists begin to warn about danger of 'greenhouse effect'.
1989
150
US-led war against Iraq. Failed coup in Russia, disbandment of USSR. Civil war in Yugoslavia and Algeria.
1991
151
Famine and civil war in Somalia. Civil war in Tajikistan. Slump in Russian economy.
1992
152
Black rule in South Africa
1994
153
Strikes rock French government in 199_?
1995
154
US-led war against Serbia
1999
