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