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45 Cards in this Set
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1453 |
Ottomans capture constantinople
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1522
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Magellan circumnavigates the world |
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1522
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Córtes conquers Aztecs |
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1600
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Expansion of Atlantic slave trade begins |
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1643
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Louis XIV begins to rule France |
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1763
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Seven Years War ends |
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1773
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Collapse of Safavid Empire |
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1234
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Mongols conquer Jin dynasty in China |
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1320
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Black Death begins in China |
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1405
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Zeng He's first voyage
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1453
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Ottoman armies conquer Constantinople
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1772
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Diderot's Encyclopedia finished |
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1789
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French Revolution
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1821
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Mexican Independence
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1830
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First railroad in England |
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1258 |
Hulegu sacks Baghdad |
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1271 |
Marco Polo sails from Venice to Asia |
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1512 |
Michelangelo finishes the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome |
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1520 |
Suleiman the Magnificent begins his reign |
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1521 |
Martin Luther excommunicated by the pope |
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1526 |
Babur conquers Delhi |
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1571 |
The Wanli emperor begins his reign in Ming China |
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1571 |
Spain conquers Manila and establishes a global trade network |
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1644 |
Ming China falls, and is replaced by Qing Dynasty |
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1670 |
Dutch establish control of the Moluccas |
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1683 |
Ottoman siege of Vienna fails |
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1687 |
Newton publishes Principia Mathematica |
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1687 |
Tsar Peter the Great of Russia found St. Petersburg |
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1803 |
Heyday of Wahhabism |
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1807 |
Abolition of slave trade in British Empire |
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1811 |
Defeat of Tenswatawa |
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1842 |
China defeated in the Opium Wars |
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1848 |
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto |
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1857 |
Indian Rebellion/Anglo-Indian War |
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1868 |
Meiji Era begins in Japan |
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1871 |
Unification of Germany |
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1884 |
Berlin Conference divides up Africa |
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1898 |
Spanish-American War |
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1899 |
Boxer Rebellion in China |
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1906 |
Women get the vote in Finland |
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1910 |
Japan annexes Korea |
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1911 |
Revolution brings an end to the Qing dynasty in China |
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1914 |
Start of World War I |
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1917 |
Russian Revolution |
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1918 |
End of First World War |
