Timeline - By Week Flashcards
Week 01
Beginning of the Ages
Age of Ancient Empires
Creation - c.450 A.D.
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Creation and the fall The flood and the Tower of Babel Mesopotamia and Sumer Egyptians (3000 B.C.) Indus River valley civilizations Minoans and Mycenaeans
Week 02
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
Seven wonders of the ancient world Patriarchs of Israel (2000 B.C.)Hittites and Canaanites Kush Assyrians Babylonians China's Shang dynasty
Week 03
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
Hinduism in India Phoenicians and the alphabet Olmecs of Mesoamerica Israelite Exodus and Desert wandering Israelite Conquest and Judges Greek Dark Ages Israel's United Kingdom
Week 04
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
(1000 B.C.) Early Native Americans Israel divides into two kingdoms Homer and Hesiod Rome founded by Romulus and Remus Israel falls to Assyria Assyria falls to Babylon Loa-Tzu, Confucious, Buddha
Week 05
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
Judah falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed Babylon falls to Persia Jews return and rebuild the temple Roman Republic Golden Age of Greece Peloponnesian Wars Persia falls to Alexander the Great
Week 06
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
India's Mauryan Empire Mayans of Mesoamerica Punic wars Rome conquers Greece Roman dictator Julius Caesar Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana John the Baptist
Week 07
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
Jesus the Messiah (Year 1 A.D.) Pentacost & the Early Church Persecution spreads the Gospel Herod's Temple destroyed by Titus Diocletian divides the Roman Empire Constantine legalizes Christianity India's Gupta Dynasty
Week 08
Age of Ancient Empires cont.
Council of Nicea
Augustine of Hippo
Jerome completes the Vulgate
Visigoths sack Rome
********** The Middle Ages c.450 - c.1500 ********** Council of Chalcedon Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians
Week 09
the Middle Ages cont.
(500 A.D.) Byzantine Emperor Justinian Benedict & Monasticism Muhammad founds Islam Zanj & Early Ghana in Africa Franks defeat the Muslims at the Battle of Tours Golden Age of Islam Vikings raid & trade
Week 10
the Middle Ages cont.
Japan’s Heian Period
Charlemagne crowned Emperor of Europe
Alfred the Great of England
Erik the Red & Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers
Vladimir I of Kiev
Byzantine Emperor Basil II
(1000 A.D.) East-West Schism of the Church
Week 11
the Middle Ages cont.
Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe The Crusades Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa Aztecs of Mesoamerica Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas Japan's Shoguns Incas of South America
Week 12
the Middle Ages cont.
Genghis Khan rules the Mongols England's Magna Carta Ottoman Empire Marco Polo's journey to China The Hundred Years' War & Black Death The Renaissance China's Ming Dynasty
Week 13
Age of Exploration
Age of Exploration
c.1400 - c.1600 A.D.
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Prince Henry founds School of Navigation Slave trade in Africa Gutenberg's printing press Songhai in Africa Czar Ivan the Great of Russia The Spanish Inquisition
Week 14
Age of Exploration cont.
Columbus Sails to the Caribbean (1800 A.D.)
********** Age of Absolute Monarchs c.1500 - c.1800 A.D. ********** Protestant Reformation Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion Council of Trent Baroque Period of the Arts
Week 15
Age of Absolute Monarchs cont.
Japan’s isolation
Jamestown and Plymouth Colony founded
********** Age of Englightenment c.1650 - c.1800 A.D. ********** Hudson's Bay company First great awakening Classical period of the Arts The Seven Years War
Week 16 (Age of Industry)
Age of Industry
c.1760 - c.1969 A.D.
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James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica
American Revolution and Gen. George Washington
Madison’s Constitution and the Bill of Rights
French Revolution
Second Great Awakening
Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Week 17 (Age of Industry cont.)
Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France Liberation of South America The War of 1812 The Missouri Compromise Immigrants flock to America The Monroe Doctrine Romantic Period of the Arts
Week 18 (Age of Industry cont.)
Cherokee Trail of Tears U.S. Westward expansion Marx publishes the Communist Manifesto The compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott decision U.S. Restores trade with Japan British Queen Victoria's rule over India Darwin publishes the Origin of Species
Week 19 (Age of Industry cont.)
Lincoln's war between the States Reconstruction of the southern states Dominion of Canada Otto von Bismark unifies Germany Boer Wars in Africa The Spanish-American War The Progressive Era
Week 20 (Age of Industry cont.)
Australia becomes a commonwealth Mexican Revolution World War I and President Wilson Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia U.S. Evangelist Billy Graham Modern period of the Arts The Great Depression and the New Deal
Week 21 (Age of Industry cont.)
World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre
The United Nations formed
The Cold War
Ghandi and India’s independence
Jewish state established
Mau and communist victory in China
Week 22 (Age of Industry cont.)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Korean War
Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement
Jim & Elizabeth Elliot, missionaries to Ecuador
The Antarctic Treaty
The Vietnam War
U.S. Astronauts walk on the Moon
Week 23
Age of Information & Globalization
********** Age of Information & Globalization c.1970 - the Present ********** Watergate, President Nixon Resigns The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe European Union formed Apartheid Abolished in South Africa (2000 A.D.) Sept. 11, 2001 Rising Tide of Freedom
