WHAP Must-Know Dates

Question 1

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol invasion

Answer 1

1206

Question 2

Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate

Answer 2

1258

Question 3

Marco Polo’s travels

Answer 3

1271-1295

Question 4

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

Answer 4

1279-1368

Question 5

Mansa Musa hajj

Answer 5

1324

Question 6

Travels of Ibn Battuta

Answer 6

1325-1349

Question 7

Bubonic plague in Europe

Answer 7

1347-1348

Question 8

Ming Dynasty

Answer 8

1368-1644

Question 9

Zheng He’s voyages

Answer 9

1405-1433

Question 10

Rise of Inca Empire

Answer 10

1438

Question 11

Ottomans capture Constantinople

Answer 11

1453

Question 12

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

Answer 12

1450’s

Question 13

Height of Aztec Empire

Answer 13

1480’s

Question 14

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

Answer 14

1488

Question 15

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

Answer 15

1492

Question 16

1st African Slaves to Americas

Answer 16

1502

Question 17

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

Answer 17

1517

Question 18

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

Answer 18

1521

Question 19

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

Answer 19

1529

Question 20

Pizarro toppled the Inca

Answer 20

1533

Question 21

Discovery of silver at Potosi

Answer 21

1545

Question 22

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

Answer 22

1571

Question 23

1st Manilla Galleon (global trade)

Answer 23

1571

Question 24

Spanish Armada

Answer 24

1588

Question 25

Tokugawa Shogunate begins

Answer 25

1600

Question 26

Foundation of Jamestown

Answer 26

1607

Question 27

30 Years War

Answer 27

1618-1648

Question 28

End of Ming/beg of Qing Dynasty

Answer 28

1644

Question 29

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

Answer 29

1653

Question 30

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

Answer 30

1683

Question 31

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

Answer 31

1689