Dates Quiz up to the year 1200 (matching) on Monday 8/18

Beginnings of agriculture.

c. 8000 BCE

Upanishads compiled as philosophical expression of Hinduism.

By 400 BCE

Period when Buddha lived in India.

566-486 BCE

Life of Confucius and Laozi; beginnings of Confucianism and Daoism.

6th-5th C BCE

Beginnings of Christianity.

32 CE

Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity.

312 CE

Christianity becomes state religion of the Roman Empire.

380 CE

Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.

4th C CE

Founding of Islam.

622 CE

Printing invented in China.

c. 730 CE

Flourishing of Abbasid Caliphate.

750-900 CE

Decline of classical Maya civilization.

c. 900 CE

Period of the Song Dynasty in China.

960-1279 CE

Great Schism in the Christian Church, leading to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox branches.

1054 CE

Euro-Christian Crusades to the Holy Land.

1095-c 1300 CE