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85 Cards in this Set
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8000 bce |
Beg of ag |
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3000 |
Beg of bronze age/ early civilization |
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1300 bce |
Iron age |
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6th c bce |
Life of buddha Confucius Lao tsu |
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5th c bce |
Greek golden age |
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323 bce |
Alex the great |
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221 |
Qin unified china |
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32 ce |
Beg of Christianity |
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180 ce |
End of pax romana |
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220 ce |
End of han dynasty |
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333 |
Roman capital to constantinople |
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4th c |
Beg of trans Saharan trade routes |
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476 |
Fall of rome |
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527 |
Justinian rule of byz empire |
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622 |
Founding of islam |
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711 |
Islamic takeover of Spain (al-andulus) |
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732 |
Battle of tours (End of Muslim move into france) |
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1054 |
Great schism in Christian church |
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1066 |
Norman conquest of england |
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1071 |
Battle of manzikert (Seljuk turks defeat byzantines) |
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1095 |
1st crusade |
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1258 |
Mongols sack baghdad |
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1271-1295 |
Marco Polo travels |
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1324 |
Mansa musa pilgrimage |
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1325-1349 |
Travels of ibn battuta |
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1347-1348 |
Bubonic plague in europe |
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1433 |
End of Zhen he's voyages/ rise of ottomans |
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1453 |
Ottomans capture constantinople |
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1488 |
Dias rounded cape of good hope |
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1492 |
Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ reconquista of spain |
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1502 |
First slaves to america |
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1517 |
Martin Luther/ 95 these |
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1521 |
Cortez conquered the aztecs |
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1533 |
Pizarro toppled the inca |
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1571 |
Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat for the ottomans) |
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1588 |
Defeat of the Spanish Armanda by the British |
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1600 |
Battle of sekigahara |
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1607 |
Founding of Jamestown |
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1618-1648 |
30 years war |
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1683 |
Unsuccessful Otto seige of vienna |
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1689 |
Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights |
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1756-1763 |
7 years war/ french and Indian war |
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1776 |
American Revolution/ wealth of nations |
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1789 |
French Revolution |
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1804 |
Haitian independence |
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1815 |
Congress of Vienna |
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1820s |
Latin American Revolution |
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1839 |
1st opium war |
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1848 |
European revolution/ Marx and Engles write communist revolution |
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1853 |
Commodore perry opens japan |
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1857 |
Sepoy mutiny/ rebellion |
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1861 |
End of Russian surfdom/ italian unification |
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1863 |
Emancipation proclamation in the US |
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1871 |
German Unification |
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1885 |
Berlin Conference- division of Africa |
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1898 |
Spanish American War -U.S. acquires phillipines, cuba, guam, & Puerto rico |
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1899 |
Boer War -0 British control of south africa |
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1905 |
Russo - Japanese War |
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1910-1920 |
Mexican Revolution |
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1911 |
Chinese Revolution |
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1914 |
WW1 |
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1917 |
Russian Revolution |
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1919 |
Treaty of Versailles/ End of WWI |
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1929 |
Stock market crash |
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1931 |
Japanese invasion of manchuria |
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1935 |
Italian invasion of manchuria |
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1939 |
German blitzerieg in Poland |
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1941 |
Pearl harbor, entry of us into WWII |
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1945 |
End of WW11 |
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1947 |
Independence and partition of india |
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1948 |
Birth of Isreal |
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1949 |
Chinese communist revolution |
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1950-1953 |
Korean war |
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1954 |
Vietnamese defeat french at Dien buen phu |
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1956 |
De-stalinization/ nationalization of suez canal |
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1959 |
Cuban revolution |
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1962 |
Cuban missile crisis |
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1967 |
6 day war/ chinese cultural revolution |
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1973 |
Yom Kippur war |
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1979 |
Iranian revolution |
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1987 |
1st Palestinian intifada |
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1989 |
Tiananmen square/ fall of the Berlin wall |
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1991 |
Fall of the ussr/ 1st gulf war |
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1994 |
Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in s africa |
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2001 |
9/11 attacks |
