AP World Events

Mongols sack Baghdad

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

Marco Polo travels

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

Travels of Ibn Battuta

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

Bubonic plague in Europe

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

End of Zheng He's voyages / Rise of Ottomans

Period I: ca. 1200 - ca. 1450

Ottomans capture Constantinople

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Columbus sails / Reconquista of Spain

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Slaves to Americas

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Martin Luther / 95 Theses

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Pizarro toppled the Inca

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Foundation of Jamestown

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

30 Years War

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights

Period II: ca. 1450 - ca. 1750

7 Years War / French and Indian War

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

American Rev. / Smith, Wealth of Nations

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

French Revolution

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Haitian Independence

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Congress of Vienna

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Independence in Latin America

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

1st Opium War in China

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

European revolutions / Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Sepoy Mutiny

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

End of Russian serfdom / Italian unification

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Emancipation Proclamation in US

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

German unification

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Berlin Conference - division of Africa

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Boer War - British in control of South Africa

Period III: ca. 1750 - ca. 1900

Russo-Japanese War

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Mexican Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Chinese Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

WWI

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Russian Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Stock market crash

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

German blitzkrieg in Poland

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

End of WWII

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Independence & partition of India

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Birth of Israel

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Chinese Communist Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Korean War

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

De-Stalinization / nationalization of Suez Canal

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Cuban Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Cuban Missile Crisis

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

6-Day War / Chinese Cultural Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Yom Kippur War

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Iranian Revolution

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

1st Palestinian Intifada

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Tiananmen Square / fall of Berlin Wall

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

Genocide in Rwanda / 1st all-race elections in South Africa

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present

9/11 Attacks

Period IV: ca. 1900 - Present