AP WORLD KEY TERMS

1500s

Renaissance

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295

Marco Polo's Travels

1324

Mansa Musa's pilgramage

1325-1349

Ibn Battuta's travels

1347-1348

Bubonic plague in Europe

1433

Zheng He's voyages end

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1488

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista of Spain

1502

First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas

1517

Martin Luther's 95 theses - Starting Reformation

1521

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

1533

Pizarro conquers the Inca

1588

Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

1600

Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate

1607

Jamestown founded in North America

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1750-1800

Industrial Revolution starts

1756-1763

Seven Years' War/French and Indian War

1776

American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution

1804

Haitian Independence

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence of Latin America

1839

Opium War between England and China

1848

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles write "The Communist Manifesto"

1853

Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

Russian serfs emancipated

1863

Emancipation Proclamation in the US

1885

Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)

1880s-1914

Imperialism

1898

Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)

1899

Boer War (British in control of South Africa)

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)

1914

WWI begins

1917

Russian/Bolshevik Revolution

1919

Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)

1929

Stock Market crash

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1939

Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII)

1941

Attack of Pearl Harbor/ U.S. entry into WWII

1945

WWII ends

1947

India partitioned and wins independence from Britain

1948

state of Israel created

1949

Chinese Communist Party takes control of China

1950-1953

Korean War

1956

De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1967

6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution

1979

Iranian Revolution

1989

Tienanmen Square incident/Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War

2001

9/11 attacks