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30 Cards in this Set
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621
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Islam began in Mecca
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711
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Moors reached Spain via Morocco
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1066
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Battle of Hastings
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1492
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"Columbus sailed the ocean blue"
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1588
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Spanish Armada defeated by England
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1607
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English settlement at Jamestown, VA
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1619
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1st slaves arrived in Virginia
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1620
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Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
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1776
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U.S. independence
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1789
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French Revolution
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1803
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Louisiana Purchase, 1st billion people
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1830s
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Cyrus McCormack invents reaper, Morse invents telegraph, trains
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1860s
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Civil War, Industrial Revolution
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1869
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Transcontinental Railroad finished, Suez Canal opened to traffic (Gulf of Suez to Indian Ocean)
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1896
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Plessy vs. Ferguson "separate but equal"
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1898
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Sp. - Am. war. U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam, Cuba
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1914-18
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Great War
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1917
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Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin to overthrow Romanov Dynasty
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1920
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Women's suffrage
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1929
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October, called Black Tuesday - Stock Market crash, Depression
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1939-45
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WWII
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1949
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Founding of P.R. China
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1950-53
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Korean War
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1954
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Brown vs. Board of Education (Topeka) shot down P. vs. F ruling; integration began in U.S.
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1960s
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Vietnam War, civil rights in U.S.
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1989
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Berlin War (Nov. 9)
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1991
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USSR fell, Desert Storm
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2001
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War of Terror (9/11)
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2003
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U.S. invades Iraq
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2008
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1/2 world's population lives in urban setting
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