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Must Know Dates for the AP World History Exam Flashcards

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8000 BCE

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Beginnings of agriculture

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3000 BCE

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Beginnings of Bronze Age (Early Civs)

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18th BCE

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Hammurabi’s Code

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1500 BCe

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Early Alphabetic Script

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1300 BCe

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Iron Age

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10th -7th

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Assyrian Empire

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6th Centurly BCE

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Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu

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5th Century BCE

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Greek Golden Age-philosophers

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323 BCE

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Alexander the Great

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221 BCe

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Qin unify China

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32 CE

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Beginnings of Christianity

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180 CE

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End of Pax Romana

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220 CE

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End of Han Dynasty

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14
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333

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Roman Capital moved to Constantinople

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15
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4th C

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Beginning of Trans Saharan Trade Routes

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476

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Fall of Rome

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527

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Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire

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632

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Rise of Islam

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732

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Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

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20
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1054

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1st Schism in Christian Church

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21
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1066

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Norman Conquest of England

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22
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1071

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Battle of Manzikert

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23
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1095

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1st Crusade

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24
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1258

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Mongols Sack Baghdad

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25
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1271-1295

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Marco Polo Travels

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26
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1324

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Mansa Musa Pilgrimage

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27
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1325-1349

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Travels of Ibn Battuta

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28
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1347-1348

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Bubonic Plague in Europe

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29
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1433

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End of Zheng He’s Voyages

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30
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1453

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Ottomans Capture Constantinople

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31
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1488

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Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope

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32
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1492

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Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue/Reconquista of Spain

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33
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1502

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Slaves to Americas

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34
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1517

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Martin Luther/95 Theses

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35
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1521

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Cortez Conquered Aztec

36
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1533

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Pizzaro toppled the Inca

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1571

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Battle of Lepanto (Naval Defeat of the Ottomans)

38
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1588

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Defeat of the Spanish Armada by British

39
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1600

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Battle of Sekigahara -Beginning of Tokugawa

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1607

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Foundation of James Town

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1618-1648

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30 Years War

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1683

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unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

43
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1689

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Glorious Revolution

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1756-1763

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7 Years War

45
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1776

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American Revolution

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1789

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French Revolution

47
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1804

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Haitian independence

48
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1815

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Congress of Vienna

49
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1820s

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Independence in Latin America

50
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1839

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1st Opium War in China

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1848

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European Revolutions/Marx and Engles write communist Manifesto

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1853

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Commodore Perry opens Japan

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1857

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Sepoy Mutiny

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1861

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End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification

55
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1863

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Emancipation Procolmation

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1871

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German Unification

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1885

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Berlin Conference

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1898

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Spanish American War

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1899

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Boer War: British control in South Africa

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1905

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Russo-Japanese War

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1910-1920

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Mexican Revolution

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1911

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Chinese revolution

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1914

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WWI

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1917

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Russian Revolution

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1919

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Treaty of Versailles

66
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1929

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Stock Market Crash

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1931

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria

68
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1935

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Italian invasion of Ethiopia

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1939

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German Blitzkrieg in poland

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1941

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Pearl Harbor, Entry of US into the War

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1945

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End of WWII

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1947

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Independence and Partition of India

73
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1948

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Birth of Israel

74
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1949

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Chinese Communist Revolution

75
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1950-1953

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Korean War

76
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1954

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Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu

77
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1956

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de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez CAnal

78
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1959

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Cuban Revolution

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1962

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Cuban Misslile Crisis

80
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1967

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6 Day war/Chinese cultural revoltuoin

81
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1973

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Yom Kippur War

82
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1979

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Iranian Revolutoin

83
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1987

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1st Palestinian Intifada

84
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1989

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Tianamen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall

85
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1991

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Fall of USSR/1st Gul f War

86
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1994

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GEnocide in Rwanda/All race election in S. Africa

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2001

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