Timeline - Organized by Ages Flashcards
Age of Ancient Empires
Creation - c.450 A.D.
(Wk. 01) 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 (Wk. 02) Seven wonders of the ancient world Patriarchs of Israel (2000 B.C.) Hittites and Canaanites Kush Assyrians Babylonians China's Shang dynasty (Wk. 03) 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 (Wk. 04) (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 (Wk. 05) 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 (Wk. 06) 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 (Wk. 07) 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 (Wk. 08) 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 (Wk. 09) (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 (Wk. 10) 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 (Wk. 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 (Wk. 12) 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
Age of Exploration
c.1400 - c.1600
(Wk. 13) 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
(Wk. 14) Columbus Sails to the Caribbean (1800 A.D.)
Age of Absolute Monarchs
c. 1500-c.1800
Protestant Reformation Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion Council of Trent Baroque Period of the Arts (Wk. 15) Japan's isolation Jamestown and Plymouth Colony founded
Age of Enlightenment
c. 1650 - c. 1800
Hudson’s Bay company
First great awakening
Classical period of the arts
The Seven Years War
Age of Industry
c.1760-c.1969
(Wk. 16) 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
(Wk. 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
(Wk. 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
(Wk. 19) 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
(Wk. 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
(Wk. 21) 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
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
Age of Information & Globalization
c.1970 - 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
