World History Review: 1200 - Present

A comprehensive set of vocabulary flashcards covering key people and significant dates from World History periods $$1200$$ through the present day, based on lecture review lecture notes.

Chinggis Khan

A key leader and MVP during the $1200-1450$ period, known as the founder of the Mongol Empire.

Kublai Khan

A prominent leader from the $1200-1450$ period; he was the grandson of Chinggis Khan and ruled over China during the Yuan Dynasty.

Mansa Musa

The ruler of the Mali Empire from Africa during the $1200-1450$ period, famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca in $1324$.

Ibn Battuta

A famous traveler whose journeys across the Islamic world occurred between $1325$ and $1349$.

Zheng He

A Chinese mariner and explorer whose major voyages ended in $1433$.

$$1095$$

The year of the $1 ext{st}$ Crusade.

$$1258$$

The year the Mongols successfully sacked the city of Baghdad.

$$1347-1348$$

The years the Black Death pandemic devastated Europe.

$$323 ext{ BCE}$$

The death of Alexander the Great.

Gutenberg

A key figure in the $1450-1750$ period known for inventing the moveable type printing press in Europe.

Martin Luther

A central figure of the Protestant Reformation who initiated religious change in $1517$.

Suleiman

The leader of the Ottoman Empire during the $1450-1750$ period, often titled 'the Magnificent'.

Akbar

A major ruler of the Mughal Empire in South Asia during the $1450-1750$ period.

$$1453$$

The year marking the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

$$1492$$

The year Christopher Columbus reached the Americas.

$$1571$$

The year of the Battle of Lepanto.

$$1588$$

The year of the Battle of the Spanish Armada.

$$1600$$

The year marking the beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.

$$1521$$

The year Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire.

$$1533$$

The year Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire.

John Locke

An Enlightenment philosopher during the $1750-1900$ period whose ideas influenced modern politics and rights.

Adam Smith

A key Economic figure from the $1750-1900$ period, known as the father of modern capitalism.

Toussaint L’Overture

The leader of the Haitian Revolution, achieving independence for Haiti in $1804$.

Karl Marx

The philosopher who co-authored 'The Communist Manifesto' during the $1750-1900$ period.

$$1776$$

The year of the American Declaration of Independence.

$$1789$$

The start of the French Revolution.

$$1815$$

The year of the Congress of Vienna.

$$1839$$

The year marking the start of the Opium War.

$$1853$$

The year Matthew Perry arrived in Japan to open trade for the United States.

$$1857$$

The year of the Sepoy Mutiny in India.

$$1871$$

The year of German unification.

$$1898$$

The year of the Spanish-American War.

Gandhi

The primary leader of the Indian independence movement during the $1900-$present period.

Mao Zedong

The leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution that concluded in $1949$.

Nelson Mandela

The first black president of South Africa, elected in $1994$.

$$1905$$

The year of the Russo-Japanese War.

$$1917$$

The year of the Russian Revolution.

$$1919$$

The year the Treaty of Versailles ended $WWI$.

$$1929$$

The year that marked the start of the Great Depression.

$$1945$$

The year marking the end of $WWII$ and the formation of the United Nations ($UN$).

$$1947$$

The year of the independence and partition of India.

$$1948$$

The year marking the creation of the State of Israel.

$$1955$$

The year of the creation of the Warsaw Pact with the $USSR$.

$$1958$$

The start of China's Great Leap Forward.

$$1970$$

The year Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize for the Green Revolution.

$$1979$$

The year of the Iranian Revolution.

$$1989$$

The year of the Tiananmen Incident and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

$$1991$$

The year marking the official fall of the Soviet Union ($USSR$).

$$1994$$

The year of the Rwandan genocide.

$$2015$$

The year of the Paris Climate Agreement.