AP World History Units 1 & 2 Timeline

fill-in-the-blank timeline quiz 9/25 (thu)

___: The Inca Empire emerges in the ___ in South America

1100s CE; Valley of Cusco

___: The Song government begins issuing ___

1100s CE; paper money

___: Height of the ___, East African port cities ruled by kings wealthy from trade

1200s CE; Swahili city states

___: Height of Great Zimbabwe, a ___ society in Southwest Africa

1200s CE; cattle-herding

___: The kingdom of ___ emerges in in central Africa

1200s CE; Tyo

___: The ___ began in Europe spreading Christianity by conquest into the Baltic region

1200s CE; Northern Crusades

___: Expansion of the Crown of Castille against the Almohad Caliphate spreading Christianity in ___

1200s CE; southern Spain

___: Iroquois chiefs of ___ form the confederation the Haudenosaunee (Five Nations)

1200 CE; North America

___: The Fourth Crusade is formed to recapture Jerusalem, instead, the Crusaders attack ___

1202 CE; Constantinople

___: Founding of the ___ in northwestern India

1206 CE; Delhi Sultanate

___: ___ united the tribes of the steppes into a confederation

1206 CE; Genghis Khan

___: The Magna Carta is first issued in England ___ certain rights of the king

1215 CE; limiting

___: The kingdom of ___ is founded in West Africa

1240 CE; Mali

___: Founding of the ___ (manumitted slave soldiers) Sultanate in Cairo, Egypt

1250 CE; Mamluk

___: A Mongol army destroys the city of ___, thus ending the Abbasid Caliphate

1258 CE; Baghdad

___: The kingdom of ___ repels the first of four failed Mongol invasions of Vietnam

1258 CE; Dai Viet

___: The House of Solomon becomes the ruling dynasty of ___ in East Africa

1270 CE; Ethiopia

___: ___, a Venetian traveler, begins his 24 year journey across the Silk Road

1271 CE; Marco Polo

___: The ___ the first of two massive invasions by the Mongols

1274 CE; Japanese shogunate repels

___: The Mongols conquer the Song Dynasty, fully establishing their own dynasty, the ___

1279 CE; Yuan Dynasty

___: The kingdom of ___ emerges in central Africa

1300s CE; Kongo

___: ___ begins in Europe causing sudden turmoil and crisis

1300s CE; The Little Ice Age (cooling period)

___: Height of ___ as the cultural and political center of the Yucatecan Maya civilization

1300s CE; Mayapan

___: ___ becomes ruler of Mali

1312 CE; Mansa Musa

___: ___, a Muslim traveler, begins his 29 year journey across Africa and Asia

1325 CE; Ibn Battuta

___: The Aztec (Mexica) build their capital city ___ on an island in the lake in the valley of Mexico

1325 CE; Tenochtitlán

___: The Hundred Years War begins between the kingdoms of ___ and England

1337 CE; France

___: ___ reached Europe via through Kaffa and the Middle East through Baghdad

1346 CE; The Black Death

___: General Taizu leads armies against the Mongols and founds a new dynasty, the ___

1368 CE; Ming Dynasty

___: Timur establishes his empire in ___, attacking Persia, Russia, and north India

1370 CE; Samarkand

___: ___ began being used for cannons in military warfare

1380s CE; Gunpowder

___: Founding of the Chosŏn Dynasty in ___

1392 CE; Korea

___: Chinese admiral ___ began his first of seven expeditions of huge treasure fleets into the Indian Ocean

1405 CE; Zheng He

___: The Empire of ___ was founded

1430 CE; Songhai

___: ___ created his famous printing press

1439 CE; Johannes Gutenberg

___: Height of manorial system and ___ in Europe

1450 CE; feudalism