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APWH Timeline Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1760 BCE | Hammurabi's code is published |
| 17th century BCE | Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives |
| 1812 BCE | Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born |
| 1200 BCE | Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas |
| 900-800 BCE | Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| 563 BCE | Siddhartha (Buddha) is born |
| 554 BCE | Confucius is born |
| 434 BCE | Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman |
| 360 BCE | Plato publishes The Republic |
| 335 BCE | Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens |
| 329 BCE | Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire |
| 320 BCE | Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire |
| 273 BCE | Reign of Ashoka begins in India |
| 210 BCE | Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty |
| 206 BCE-195 BCE | Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns |
| 49 BCE | Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic |
| 27 BCE | Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor |
| 5 BCE | Jesus is born |
| 36 AD | Paul's conversion to Christianity |
| 272 AD | Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor is born |
| 622 AD | Muhammad leads the Hegira |
| 800 AD | Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1066 AD | William the Conqueror begins his reign in England |
| 1095 AD | Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land |
| 1187 AD | Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades |
| 1206 AD | At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler" |
| 1270 AD | Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China |
| 1324 AD | Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca |
| 1405 AD | First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He |
| 1448 AD | Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor |
| 1503 AD | Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa |
| 1509 AD | Henry VIII becomes King of England |
| 1519 AD | Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses |
| 1536 AD | John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion |
| 1616 AD | Galileo begins having difficulties with the church |
| 1637 AD | Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works |
| 1653 AD | Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War |
| 1654 AD | Louis XIV is crowned King of France |
| 1682 AD | Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia |
| 1687 AD | Newton publishes the Principia |
| 1689 AD | John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government |
| 1762 AD | Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia |
| 1764 AD | Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution |
| 1782 AD | Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights |
| 1793 AD | Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution |
| 1804 AD | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France |
| 1812 AD | Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire |
| 1819 AD | Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain |
| 1842 AD | King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium |
| 1848 AD | Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto |
| 1859 AD | Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species |
| 1871 AD | Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany |
| 1917 AD | V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution |
| 1921 AD | Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics |
| 1922 AD | Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death |
| 1930 AD | Gandhi leads the Salt March in India |
| 1932 AD | Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany |
| 1946 AD | Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam |
| 1946 AD | Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India |
| 1949 AD | Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China |
| 1953 AD | Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union |
| 1959 AD | Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba |
| 1963 AD | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington |
| 1990 AD | Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War |
| 1994 AD | Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa |
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