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APWH Dates 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alexander The Great | 323 BCE |
| Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 4th Century |
| Beginnings of Christianity | 32 |
| Beginnings of Agriculture | 8000 BCE |
| Beginnings of Bronze Age - and Early Civilizations | 3000 BCE |
| End of Han Dynasty | 220 |
| End of Pax Romana | 180 |
| Fall of Rome | 476 |
| Greek Golden Age - philosophers, etc. | 5th Century BCE |
| Iron Age | 1300 BCE |
| Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 |
| Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu (Beginnings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism) | 6th Century BCE |
| Qin Unified China | 221 BCE |
| Roman Capital moved to Constantinople | 333 |
| Fall of Mauryan Dynasty | 184 bCE |
| Fall of Gupta | 550 |
| Founding of Islam | 622 |
| Printing Invented in CHina | Ca 730 |
| Battle of Tours | 732 |
| Decline of Classical Maya | Ca 900 |
| Great Schism | 1054 |
| Norman conquest of England | 1066 |
| Battle of Manzikert | 1071 |
| 1st Crusade | 1095 |
| Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests | 1206 |
| Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 |
| Marco Polo's Travels | 1271-1295 |
| Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China | 1279-1368 |
| Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 1324 |
| Travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 |
| Bubonic Plague in Europe | 1347-1348 |
| Ming Dynasty | 1368-1644 |
| Zhang He's voyages | 1405-1433 |
| Rise of Inca Empire | 1438 |
| Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 |
| Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 1488 |
| Columbus/Reconquista of spain | 1492 |
| 1st slaves to the Americas | 1502 |
| Martin Luther/95 theses | 1517 |
| Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 1521 |
| Pizarro toppled the Inca | 1533 |
| Battle of Lepanto (defeat of Ottoman Navy) | 1571 |
| Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British | 1588 |
| Battle of Sekigahara - unification of Japan - beginning of Tokugawa rule | 1600 |
| Foundation of Jamestown | 1607 |
| 30 years war | 1618-1648 |
| Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 1683 |
| Glorious Revolution/ English bill of rights | 1689 |
| 7 years war/French and indian war | 1756-1763 |
| Invention of spinning jenny | 1767 |
| American revolution/Smith writes wealth of nations | 1776 |
| French revolution begins | 1789 |
| Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 1796 |
| Haitian independence | 1804 |
| BriTish abolition of transatlantiC slave trade | 1807 |
| Congress of Vienna | 1815 |
| Independence of Latin America | 1820s |
| 1st opium war in China | 1839 |
| European revolutions/Communist manifesto | 1848 |
| Commodore Perry opens Japan | 1853 |
| Sepoy mutiny | 1857 |
| End of Russian serfdom/italian unification | 1861 |
| Emancipation proclamation | 1863 |
| German unification | 1871 |
| Berlin conference (division of Africa) | 1885 |
| New Zealand grants women's suffrage | 1893 |
| Battle of adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 1896 |
| Spanish American war | 1898 |
| Boer war | 1899-1902 |