Unit One: Important Dates Flashcards
Around when was gunpowder developed by Daoist monks?
800s
When do the crusaders take Jerusalem, killing the non-Christians?
1099 CE
Around when is the compass introduced to the Europeans by the Arabs?
Late 1100s
When do the Mongols take Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate?
1258 CE
When does Marco Polo live in China ?
c. 1275 CE
When is Tenochtitlan founded?
1325 CE
When does the Black Plague reach China?
1330s
When does the Black Plague kill 1/3 of the European pop.?
1350~
When is the height of the Black Death in the Middle East?
1348
When does a rebellion against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty start the Ming Dynasty?
1368
When does Portugal gain control of Azores ?
1439
When do Spanish colonies begin to develop?
1434
When does the Inca Empire begin?
1448?
During what range of time do the Ming dynasty expeditions of Zheng He take place?
1405-1433
When does the Sui Dynasty reunite China 300 years after the fall of Han?
581 CE
When did the Tang dynasty take over the Sui dynasty?
618
Around when did the Roman Empire fall?
400s
When did the Roman Empire begin to decline?
180 CE
When was Songhay defeated by a Morroco Muslim army fighting with muskets?
1591
When did the Catholic and Orthodox Churches excommunicate one another ( Great Schism )?
1054 CE
When do the high Middle Ages start?
1000 CE
When did Muhammad’s Hijra take place?
622 CE
When did Shi’a resistance begin?
680
When did the Abbasid Caliphate succeed the Umayyad Caliphate?
750 CE
When is Ali assassinated?
661
When is Islamic Expansion halted by Charles Martel in Europe?
732
When was the first European use of the cannon?
1320s
When do Aragon and Castille combine through marriage, and the Spanish monarchy rises?
1469
