Important Dates in AP World History

These flashcards cover significant events and periods from AP World History, focusing on important dates and their historical context.

Pax Mongolica

1250-1360s

Italian Renaissance: rebirth of classical arts at lit.

1300s-1500s

mali king mansa musa makes pilgrimage to mecca

1324

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1346-1353

Rise of Ming:expansion of trade w/ west

1368

voyages of Zheng He on indian ocean

1405-1433.

Aztecs: Chinampas & Human Sacrifice Inca: roads and mit’a

14-16th C

Constantinople falls to ottoman turks- byzantine falls

1453

Spain unifies:columbus, columbus exchange, moors driven out

1492

Da Gama sails to India

1498

Protestant Reformation- wars of religon in europe

1517

Battle of Chaldiran (sunni ottoman vs shia shavids)

1514

Arrival of conquistadores in Mexico: ecomienda and hacienda

1519

Mughal Empire

1526-1739.

Silver whip tax (silver in china)

1570s

Founding of Jamestown and start of slaves in n america

1607

British East india co. in india, begining of tokugawa

1600

Sakuko edict closes japan

1635

rise of Qing(mid 1800s taiping, self strengthening, boxers)

1644

Enlightenment (liberalism, progress, natural rights; peter the great and westernization)

late 1600s

James Watt perfects the steam engine

1765

American Revolution, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations

1776

French Revolution (Haiti=1791, Latin America=1808)

1789

Slave trade abolished in Britain (1808=US, 1814=France)

1807

Slavery abolished in Britain(1865=US, 1848=France)

1833