Date Quiz I (8000 B.C.E – 600 C.E)
c. 8000 B.C.E
Beginnings of agriculture
c. 3000 B.C.E
Beginnings of Bronze Age – early civilizations
c. 2000 BCE
Bantu begin a centuries long migration
c. 1750-500 BCE Vedic Age
1500 BCE ?
Zoroastrianism founded
1500 – 200 B.C.EOlmecs
1300 B.C.E
Iron Age
1000 BCE ?
Bantu Migrations begin
900 – 200 B.C.E Chavin
6th C B.C.E
Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi
5th C B.C.E
Greek Golden Age – philosophers
500 BCE to 0
Roman republic
200 BCE- 200CE
Han
323 B.C.E
Alexander the Great dies
323 – 31 B.C.E
Spread of Hellenism
321 – 185 B.C.E Mauryan Empire
200 B.C.E – 200 C.E
Han Dynasty
0-500 CE
Roman Empire
32 C.E
Beginnings of Christianity
100s
Buddhism reaches China
312
Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity (Edict of Milan)
250 – 900
Classical Maya
320 – 550
Gupta Dynasty
4th C
Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
527 – 565
Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
Date Quiz II 600 – 1450
622
Founding of Islam
Late 6th C
Sui dynasty builds Grand canal
618 – 906
Tang Dynasty
8th-11th centuries Vikings
710 – 794
Nara Period in Japan
c. 730
Printing invented in China (woodblock)
794 – 1185
Heian period in Japan
750 – 1258
Abbasid Dynasty
800-1200
Ghana
960 – 1279
Song Dynasty
1054
Great Schism in Christian Church
1095
1st Crusade
1185 – 1603
Feudal l Japan
1206
Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests
1206-1506
Delhi Sultanate
1271 – 1295
Marco Polo’s travels
1279 – 1368
Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China
1299 – 1923
Ottoman Empire
1324
Mansa Musa of Mali
1325 – 1349
travels of Ibn Battuta
1347 – 1348
Bubonic plague in Europe
1368 – 1644
Ming Dynasty
1405 – 1433
Zheng He’s voyages
15th C
Timbuktu important intellectual center
1427 – 1521
Aztec Empire
1438 – 1533
Inca Empire
Date quiz III 1450 – 1750
1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
1450s
Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)
15th 16th centuries Songhai Empire
1492
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain
1498
Da Gama reaches India
1500
1502
1506-1707
1517
1545
1571
1600
1603 – 1868
1644
1644 – 1911
1653
Sikhism founded
1st African Slaves to Americas
Mughal Empire
Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation
Discovery of silver at Potosi
1st Manila Galleon (global trade)
BEIC founded
Tokugawa Shogunate
Ming Dynasty ends
Qing Dynasty
Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)
17th/ 18th C
1767
1776
1776
1789
1804
1807
1815
1820s
1839
1839 – 1878
1848
1850-1864
1853
1853 – 1856
1857
1861
1861 – 1865
1863
1871
1885
1891
1893
1896
1898
1898-1900
Date Quiz IV 1750 – 1900
Enlightenment
Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)
Declaration of Independence (American Revolution)
Smith writes Wealth of Nations
French Revolution begins
Haitian independence
British abolish trans-Atlantic slave trade
Congress of Vienna
Independence in Latin America
1st Opium War in China
Tanzimat Reforms
Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto
Taiping Rebellion
Commodore Perry opens Japan
Crimean War (a wakeup call for Russia)
Sepoy Mutiny (beginning of British Imperial Rule)
Russia Emancipates Serfs
U.S Civil War
Beginning of Meiji Restoration
German Unification
Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins “Scramble for Africa”)
Trans-Siberian railroad construction begins
New Zealand grants women suffrage
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)
Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)
Boxer Rebellion
1905
1910 – 1920
1911
1914 – 1918
1915
1917
1919
1919
1922-53
1923
1929
1930
1930s
1931
1932
1930s
1935
1937
1939
1941
1945 Aug
Date Quiz V 1900 – 1950
Russo-Japanese war
Mexican Revolution (Dias overthrown)
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)
World War I
Armenian Genocide begins
Russian Revolution
Mandate System begins
League of Nations begins
Stalin
Ottoman Empire ends
stock market crash
Gandhi leads Salt March
Great Depression/ Worldwide depression
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
New Deal
Mussolini defines fascism
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)
German blitzkrieg in Poland
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
1945 Sept
1947 June
1947 Aug
1948
1948-49
1949 Apr
1949 Oct
end of WWII (Japan surrenders)
Truman Doctrine (“official” declaration of Cold War)
independence & partition of India
birth of Israel
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
NATO founded
Chinese Communist’s win: PRC formed
Date Quiz VI 1950 – Present
1950 – 1953
1954
1956 Feb
1956 Fall
1957
1957
1959
1960
1962
1964
1966 – 1976
1975
1979
1979
1979-1990
1985
1989 June
1989 Nov
1990
1991 Jan
1991 Dec
1994 Apr-July
1994 Apr
2001
Korean War
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)
Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization
Nationalization of Suez Canal
Ghana independence
Sputnik
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)
Year of Africa (Independence)
Cuban Missile Crisis
PLO founded
Chinese Cultural Revolution
End of Vietnam War
Iranian Revolution
China begins “Socialist Market Economy” reform (Deng Xiaoping)
Thatcher leads UK
Gorbachev Glasnost and Perestroika
Tiananmen Square Protests
fall of Berlin Wall
Namibia gains independence (last African colony)
1st Persian Gulf War
USSR disbands
genocide in Rwanda
1st all-race elections in S. Africa
Al Qaeda 9/11 Attacks
In addition, you should (a) know the dates of the following (b) be able to say 5 things about them (think SPICE)
And . . . . (c) be able to locate them
Abbasid Empire
Aztec Empire
Babylonian Empire
Byzantine Empire
Delhi Sultanate
Dutch Maritime empire
Gupta Empire
Han Empire
Harrapan Civilzation
Incan empire
Mali Empire
Mauryan
Mayan civilization
Ming Empire
Mongol Empire
Mughal Empire
Ottoman Empire
Persian Empires
Qing Empire
Roman Empire
Russain Empire
Safavid
Song Empire
Spanish Maritime Empire
Sumerian civilization
Swahili city-states
Yellow River civilization
Yuan Empire