APWH Timeline

• Beginning of Agriculture


  8000 BCE
• Beginning of Bronze Age/Early Civilizations

  3000 BCE
• Iron Age


  1300 BCE
• Beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism

  6th C BCE
• Greek Golden Age- Philosophers


  5th C BCE
• Alexander the Great


  323 BCE
• Qin unified China


  221 BCE
• Beginning of Christianity


  32 CE
• End of Pax Romana

  180 CE
• End of Han dynasty

  220 CE
• Roman capital moved to Constantinople

  333 CE
• Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes


  4th C
• Fall of Rome


  476 CE
• Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire

  527 CE
• Bubonic Plague in Europe


  1347-1348
• Marco Polo Travels


  1271-1295
• First Crusade


  1095
• Battle of Tours (End of Muslim move into France)


  732
• Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)


  1054
• End of Zheng He's Voyages/ Rise of Ottomans

  1433
• Mongols Sack Baghdad


  1258
• Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine)


  1071
• Founding of Islam


  622
• Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage

  1324
• Travels of Ibn Battuta

  1325-1349
• Norman Conquest of England

  1066
• Ottomans capture constantinople


  1453
• Dias rounded the cape of good hope

  1488
• Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ reconquista of Spain

  1492
• First slaves to americas

  1502
• Martin Luther/95 Theses


  1517
• Cortez conquered the Aztecs


  1521
• Pizarro toppled the Inca

  1533
• Battle of Lepanto


  1571
• Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British

  1588
• Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa


  1600
• Foundation of Jamestown


  1607
• Thirty Years War


  1618-1648
• Unsuccessful ottoman siege of Vienna

  1683
• Glorious revolution/English bill of rights


  1689