Unit One: Important Dates

Question 1

Around when was gunpowder developed by Daoist monks?

Answer 1

800s

Question 2

When do the crusaders take Jerusalem, killing the non-Christians?

Answer 2

1099 CE

Question 3

Around when is the compass introduced to the Europeans by the Arabs?

Answer 3

Late 1100s

Question 4

When do the Mongols take Baghdad, ending the Abbasid Caliphate?

Answer 4

1258 CE

Question 5

When does Marco Polo live in China ?

Answer 5

c. 1275 CE

Question 6

When is Tenochtitlan founded?

Answer 6

1325 CE

Question 7

When does the Black Plague reach China?

Answer 7

1330s

Question 8

When does the Black Plague kill 1/3 of the European pop.?

Answer 8

1350~

Question 9

When is the height of the Black Death in the Middle East?

Answer 9

1348

Question 10

When does a rebellion against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty start the Ming Dynasty?

Answer 10

1368

Question 11

When does Portugal gain control of Azores ?

Answer 11

1439

Question 12

When do Spanish colonies begin to develop?

Answer 12

1434

Question 13

When does the Inca Empire begin?

Answer 13

1448?

Question 14

During what range of time do the Ming dynasty expeditions of Zheng He take place?

Answer 14

1405-1433

Question 15

When does the Sui Dynasty reunite China 300 years after the fall of Han?

Answer 15

581 CE

Question 16

When did the Tang dynasty take over the Sui dynasty?

Answer 16

618

Question 17

Around when did the Roman Empire fall?

Answer 17

400s

Question 18

When did the Roman Empire begin to decline?

Answer 18

180 CE

Question 19

When was Songhay defeated by a Morroco Muslim army fighting with muskets?

Answer 19

1591

Question 20

When did the Catholic and Orthodox Churches excommunicate one another ( Great Schism )?

Answer 20

1054 CE

Question 21

When do the high Middle Ages start?

Answer 21

1000 CE

Question 22

When did Muhammad’s Hijra take place?

Answer 22

622 CE

Question 23

When did Shi’a resistance begin?

Answer 23

680

Question 24

When did the Abbasid Caliphate succeed the Umayyad Caliphate?

Answer 24

750 CE

Question 25

When is Ali assassinated?

Answer 25

661

Question 26

When is Islamic Expansion halted by Charles Martel in Europe?

Answer 26

732

Question 27

When was the first European use of the cannon?

Answer 27

1320s

Question 28

When do Aragon and Castille combine through marriage, and the Spanish monarchy rises?

Answer 28

1469