key dates for AP World

c. 8,000 B.C.E.

Neolithic Revolution led to early civilizations

476

Western portion Roman Empire fell

622

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

1258

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

1453

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

1492

Spanish empire sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyage that reached the Americas

1750

Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain

1776

Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations

1776

Britain's American colonies declared independence

1865

13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

1884

Berlin Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa

1917

Russian Revolutions overthrew czar and created the Soviet Union

1929

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

1947

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

1949

Mao established the People's Republic of China

1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created

1991

Soviet Union fell

2001

Terrorist attacks in the US initiated the War on Terror