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61 Cards in this Set
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Mongols Conquer the Jin dynasty in China |
1234 |
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Hulegu (Mongol leader) sacks Baghdad |
1258 |
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Marco Polo sails from Venice to Asia |
1271
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Black Death begins in China |
1320 |
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Zheng He’s first voyage |
1405
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Ottoman armies conquer Constantinople |
1453
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Michelangelo finishes the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Rome |
1512
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Suleiman the Magnificent begins his reign (Ottoman Empire) |
1520
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Martin Luther excommunicated by the pope |
1521 |
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Magellan circumnavigates the world |
1522 |
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Cortés conquers the Aztecs |
1522 |
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Babur conquers Delhi |
1526 |
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The Wanli emperor begins his reign in Ming China |
1571 |
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Spain conquers Manila and establishes a global trade network |
1571 |
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Expansion of the Atlantic slave trade begins |
1600 |
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Louis XIV begins to rule France |
1643 |
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Ming China falls, and is replaced by the Qing dynasty |
1644 |
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Dutch establish control of the Moluccas (modern-day Indonesia) |
1670 |
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Ottoman siege of Vienna fails |
1683 |
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Newton publishes Principia Mathematica |
1687 |
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Tsar Peter the Great of Russia founds St. Petersburg |
1703 |
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Seven Years War ends |
1763 |
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Diderot’s Encyclopedia completed |
1772 |
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Collapse of the Safavid Empire |
1773 |
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French Revolution |
1789 |
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Heyday of Wahhabism |
1803 |
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Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire |
1807 |
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Defeat of Tenskwatawa |
1811 |
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Mexican Independence |
1821 |
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First railway in England |
1830 |
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China defeated in the Opium Wars |
1842 |
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Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto |
1848 |
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Indian Rebellion/Anglo-Indian War |
1857 |
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Meiji Era begins in Japan |
1868 |
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Unification of Germany |
1871 |
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Berlin Conference divides up Africa |
1884 |
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Women get the vote in New Zealand |
1893 |
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Spanish-American War |
1898 |
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Boxer Rebellion in China |
1899 |
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Japan annexes Korea |
1910 |
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Revolution brings an end to the Qing dynasty in China |
1911 |
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Start of World War I |
1914 |
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Russian Revolution |
1917 |
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End of First World War |
1918 |
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Muslim brotherhood established |
1928 |
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Hitler comes to power in Germany |
1933 |
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Japan invades China (start of World War II?) |
1937 |
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End of World War II |
1945 |
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India receives independence from Britain |
1947 |
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Communist Victory in Chinese Civil War |
1949 |
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End of Korean War |
1953 |
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President Arbenz of Guatemala overthrown in CIA coup |
1954 |
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Great Leap Forward, China |
1958 |
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Algeria receives independence from France |
1962 |
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Cultural Revolution begins in China |
1966 |
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Six Day War between Israel and her neighbours |
1967 |
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Iraq nationalizes her oil industry |
1972 |
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End of the Vietnam War/the American War |
1975 |
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Iranian Revolution |
1979 |
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AIDS first detected |
1981 |
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union |
1991 |
