Timeline Cycle 3

Question 1

Week 1

Answer 1

AGE OF ANCIENT EMPIRES (Creation to circa 450 AD)
Creation and the Fall
The Flood and the Tower of Babel
Mesopotamia and Sumer
Egyptians
(3000 BC)
Indus River Valley Civilization
Minoans and Mycenaeans

Question 2

Week 2

Answer 2

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Patriarchs of Israel
(2000 BC)
Hittites and Canaanites
Kush
Assyrians
Babylonians
China’s Shang Dynasty

Question 3

Week 3

Answer 3

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
(1000 BC)

Question 4

Week 4

Answer 4

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
Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha

Question 5

Week 5

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Week 6

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Week 7

Answer 7

Jesus the Messiah
(Year 1 AD)
Pentecost and 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

Question 8

Week 8

Answer 8

Council of Nicea
Augustine of Hippo
Jerome Completes the Vulgate
Visigoths Sack Rome
THE MIDDLE AGES
(Circa 450 to Circa 1500)
Council of Chalcedon
Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians
(500 AD)

Question 9

Week 9

Answer 9

Byzantine Emperor Justinian
Benedict and Monasticism
Muhammad Founds Islam
Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa
Franks Defeat Muslims at the Battle of Tours
Golden Age of Islam
Vikings Raid and Trade

Question 10

Week 10

Answer 10

Japan’s Heian Period
Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe
Alfred the Great of England
Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers
Vladimir I of Kiev
Byzantine Emperor Basil II
(1000 AD)
East-West Schism of the Church

Question 11

Week 11

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Week 12

Answer 12

Ghengis Khan Rules the Mongols
England’s Magna Carta
The Ottoman Empire
Marco Polo’s Journey to China
The Hundred Years’ War and Black Death
The Renaissance
China’s Ming Dynasty

Question 13

Week 13

Answer 13

AGE OF EXPLORATION
(Circa 1400 to circa 1600)
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

Question 14

Week 14

Answer 14

Columbus Sails to the Caribbean
(1500 AD)
AGE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHS
(c. 1500 to c. 1800)
Protestant Reformation
Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas
Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
Council of Trent
Baroque Period of the Arts

Question 15

Week 15

Answer 15

Japan’s Isolation
Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
(c. 1650 to c. 1800)
Hudson’s Bay Company
First Great Awakening
Classical Period of the Arts
The Seven Years’ War

Question 16

Week 16

Answer 16

AGE OF INDUSTRY
(c. 1760 to c. 1969)
James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica
American Revolution and General George Washington
Madison’s Constitution and the Bill of Rights
French Revolution
Second Great Awakening
Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition

Question 17

Week 17

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Week 18

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Week 19

Answer 19

Lincoln’s War Between the States
Reconstruction of the Southern States
Dominion of Canada
Otto von Bismarck Unifies Germany
Boer Wars in Africa
The Spanish-American War
The Progressive Era

Question 20

Week 20

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Week 21

Answer 21

World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre
The United Nations Formed
The Cold War
Gandhi and India’s Independence
Jewish State Established
Mao and Communist Victory in China

Question 22

Week 22

Answer 22

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Korean War
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, Missionaries to Equador
The Antarctic Treaty
The Vietnam War
U.S. Astronauts Walk on the Moon

Question 23

Week 23

Answer 23

AGE OF INFORMATION AND GLOBALIZATION
(c. 1970 to the present)
Watergate, President Nixon Resigns
Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
European Union Formed
Apartheid Abolished in South Africa
(2000 AD)
September 11, 2001
Rising Tide of Freedom

Question 24

Week 24

Answer 24

Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Johnson
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
Harrison
Cleveland
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush
Clinton
Bush
Obama
Trump
Biden