key dates for AP World

c. 8,000 B.C.E.

Neolithic Revolution led to early civilizations

476 C.E.

Western portion Roman Empire fell

622 C.E.

Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina, signifying a start to Islamic empire

1258 C.E.

Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid caliphate, invaded by the Mongols

1453 C.E.

Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire, fell to the Ottoman empire

1492 C.E.

Spanish empire sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyage that reached the Americas

1750 C.E.

Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain

1776 C.E.

Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations

1776 C.E.

Britain's American colonies declared independence

1865 C.E.

13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

1884-85 C.E.

Berlin Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa

1917 C.E.

Russian Revolutions overthrew czar and created the Soviet Union

1929 C.E.

Stock market crash in the United States started the global Great Depression

1947 C.E.

British colonies in South Asia partitioned, creating India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

1949 C.E.

Mao established the People's Republic of China

1949 C.E.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created

1991 C.E.

Soviet Union fell

2001 C.E.

Terrorist attacks in the US initiated the War on Terror