AP World History Modern: Chronology Unit Checkpoint Units 1 and 2

Founding of the Song Dynasty in China

960

Champa Rice arrives from Southeast Asia to Song China

1000

First Crusade by Europeans to recapture the “Holy Lands” in Jerusalem

1095

Song China introduces 1st Paper Money

1136

Genghis Khan unifies the Mongol tribes

1206

Fall of the Abbasid Caliphate

1258

Marco Polo arrives in China at the court of Kublai Khan

1275

Mali’s Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimmage to Mecca

1324

Founding of Tenochtitlan by the Mexica

1325

Ibn Battuta arrives in the Delhi Sultanate

1333

1st Bubonic Plague deaths recorded in Lake Issykul in Eastern Kazakhstan

1338

Founding of the Ming Dynasty after the defeat of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty

1368

Ming Admiral ZhengHe begins his voyages through the Indian Ocean Trade Network

1405

Inca Pachacuti comes to power in Tawantinsuyu

1438

Gutenberg develops the movable type printing press in Europe

1440