WHAP ERAS

Birth of Islam

610 - 613

Umayyad

661 - 750

Abbasid

750 - 1236

Delhi Sultanate

711 - 1206

Crusades

1096 - 1270

Bantu

800 BCE - 1000 CE

Ghana

1000

Mali

1200 - 1450

Songhai

1500

Swahili Coast Trade

1400

Byzantine Empire

500 - 1453

Orthodox/Catholic Schism

1504

Kievan Rus

855

Middle Ages-Feudalism (dark ages)

500 - 900

European Kingdoms Emerge

1000 - 1400

Aztec

1325 - 1520

Inca

1350 - 1520

Sui

589 - 618

Tang

618 - 907

Song

960 - 1279

Heian

794 - 1185

Feudalism Japan

1160 - 1600

Mongols

1215 - 1368

Golden Horde

1236 - 1462

Yuan

1271 - 1368

Conquering of Americas

1520s

Columbian Exchange

1450 - 1750

Renaissance (Italian)

1300

Renaissance (Flemish)

1400s

Reformation

1500s

Atlantic Slave Trade

1481 - 1853

Scientific Revolution

1600s

Enlightenment

1700s

Czarist Russia

1462 - 1917

Ivan III

(Ivan the Great)

Ivan IV(Ivan the Terrible)

1533 - 1584

Peter the Great

1689 - 1725

Catherine the Great

1762 - 1796

Bourbon Reforms

1780s

Ottoman

1453 - 1914

Safavid

1501 - 1722

Mughal

1526 - 1739

Ming Dynasty

1368 - 1644

Japanese Reunification

1600s - 1868

1st Industrialization

1770s

2nd Industrialization

mid 1800s

French Revolution

1789 - 1815

Imperialism high point, British Raj, Dutch East Indies

1871 - 1912

Latin American Independence

1820s

Qing Dynasty

1644 - 1911

Russian Reform

late 1800s

Meiji Restoration

1868 - 1912

Mexican Revolution

1910 - 1920

WWI

1914 - 1918

Russian Revolution (liberal then communist)

1917

5 Year Plan

1920s

Great Depression

1930s

Fascism, Communism, Socialism

1920-1930s

WWII

1939 -1945

Decolonization (successful nationalist movements - India, Africa, Asia)

1940s - 1970s

Cold War

1945 - 1990s

USSR falls

1991

China Nationalist

1920s - 1930s

China Communist takeover

1949

Authoritarian and military regimes in Latin America

1950s - 1980s

Iran Revolution

1979

Korean War

1950s

Vietnam War

1960s - 1970s