Dates Flashcards
The Domestication of animals
9,000 BCE
The development of farming in ME
8500-3500 BCE
Bronze Age
4th millennium
Rise of Sumerians
3500 BCE
Unification of Egypt
3100 BCE
Rise of the Indus River valley
2500 BCE
Judaism begins with Abraham
2000 BCE
Shang kingdom in china
1500 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
1029-258 BCE
Rise of Hinduism
1000-600
Founding of the Roman Republic
509 BCE
Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates
5th century
Golden age of Athens
470-430 BCE
Alexander the Great
332-323 BCE
Mauryan Dynasty
332-184 BCE
Founding of the Qin dynasty
221 BCE
Founding of the Han dynasty
202 BCE
Rise of Roman Empire
27 BCE
Spread of Christianity
1st century CE
End of Pax Romana
180 CE
End of Han Dynasty
220 CE
Spread of Buddhism in China
220- 589 CE
Rome Legalizes Christianity
313 CE
Gupta Dynasty
319 - 540
Fall of western Roman Empire
476 CE
Reign of Justinian
527- 565 CE
Rise of Islam
610 CE
Tang Dynasty in China
618- 907 CE
Umayyad Caliphate
661- 750 CE
Start of the Abbasid Caliphate
750 CE
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
800 CE
Heian period in Japan
C. 800 CE
Beginning of Kievan Rus
C. 855 CE
Song Dynasty in China
960- 1271 CE
Split of the Christian Church
1054 CE
First Christian Crusade
1096
Rise of feudalism in Japan
12th century
Rise of the kingdom of Mali
1200 CE
Reign of Genghis Khan
1206-1227 CE
Founding of the Yuan Dynasty
1271 CE
Founding of the Ottoman Empire
1281 CE
Italian renaissance
1304- 1374 CE
Spread of the Bubonic plague
1320- 1340 CE
Rise of the Aztec Empire
1325 CE
Rise of the Inca Empire
1350 CE
Beginning of the Ming Dynasty
1368 CE
Swahili States flourish
1400 CE
Zheng He voyages
1405- 1433 CE
Start of the Atlantic Slave Trade
1441 CE
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
1453 CE
Columbus expeditions
1492 CE
Vasco de Gama reaches India
1498 CE
Commercial revolution in Europe
16th century
Start of Protestant Reformation
1517 CE
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
1524 CE
Founding of the Mughal Empire
1526 CE
Pizarro conquers the Inca
1533 CE
Beginning of Russian Empire
1552 CE
Founding of Manila; world trade system
1571 CE
Scientific Revolution
1600- 1690 CE
Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate
1603 CE
First British colony in North America
1607 CE
Beginning of Japanese isolation
1640s CE
Louis XIV in France; absolute monarchy
1643-1715 CE