APWH Timeline
Period 1: 8,000 BCE- 600 BCE Technological and Environmental Transformations
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8,000 –Neolithic Revolution
3200-Writing/Cunieform in Mesopotamia
River Valley Civilizationa (Egypt/Nile, Mesopotamia/Tigris and Euphrates, Indus,
Chinese/Huang He/Yellow)
1790s Hammurabi’s Code of law
1500-500 Bantu Migrations/Aryan Migrations
Period 2: 600 BCE-600CE
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550-330 Persian Empire
509 Roman Republic
493-404 Greek/Persian War-Peloponnesian War(Golden Age for Athens and Fall)
323-30 Hellenic Age
323-185 Mauryan Empire
221-206 Qin Empire
100-600 Axum Empire
206-220 Han Empire
31BCE-180 Pax Romana
350-550 Gupta Dynasty
300-900 Maya Empire
476 Fall of Western Rome
395-1453 Byzantine Empire
5891-618 Sui Dynasty
Period 3: 600-1450
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Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
Regional and Transregional Interactions
618-907 Tang Dynasty
632 Islam founded
732 Battle of Tours
740-900s Abassid Dynasty(Shiite Muslims)
800 Charlemagne named Holy Roman Emperor
800-1066 Ghana Empire
960-1279 Song Dynasty
1066 Battle
1095-1270 Crusades
1200-1520 Aztec Empire
1206-1227 Ghengis Khan
1230-1433 Mali Kingdom
1260-1324 Marco Polo’s tavels to China
1279-1368 Yuan Dynasty
1300-1914 Ottoman Empire
1300-1650 Renaissance
1307 Mansa Musa’s trip to Mecca
1325-1354 Ibn Batutta’s trip to Africa
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1348 Bubonic Plague
1438-1525 Inca Empire
Period 4: 1450-1750
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Period 5: 1750-1900
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Industrialization and Global Integration
1750 Industrial Revolution Begins
1776 American Revolution
1789 French Revolution
1791 Haitian Revolution
1800 Imperialism Begins
1810 Latin American Revolutions
1815 Congress of Vienna
1848 Karl Marx Communist Manifesto
1858 Sepoy Rebellion
1871 New Nations Germany/Italy/Austria-Hungary
1896 Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia defeats Italy)
1898 Boxer Rebellion
1898 Spanish American War
1899 Boer War (South Africa)
Period 6: 1900-Present
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Global Interactions
1450 Printing Press invented by Johann Gutenburg
1453 Ottoman Empire conquers Constantinople
1460s Songhai Empire
Henry the Navigator
1492 Columbus sails to Americas
1500-1722 Safavid Empire (Persian Muslims)
1500 Age of Absolutism Begins
1517 Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation
1543 Scientific Revolution Begins
1600s Enlightenment Begins
Global Change and Realignments
1914-1917 World War I
1917 Russian Revolution
1919 Treaty of Versailles/Balfour Declaration/Ottoman Empire Falls/Turkey)
1929 Great Depression
1939-45 World War II
1948 Independence movements (India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran China/Communist, NATO)
1940s -70s Green Revolution (started in Mexico with corn and wheat and spread throughout
world)
1950-53 Korean War
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1968-1975 Vietnam War
1968 OPEC forms
1979 Iranian Revolution (Soviet occupation of Afghanistan)
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1989 Berlin Wall falls/Communism ends
1990s Ethnic Tensions (Balkans/Bosnia/Israel/India+Pakistan/Ireland/Somalia/Rwanda)
1992 Apartheid ends in South Africa
1994 NAFTA
2001 9/11 Attacks War on Terrorism