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