Dates Quiz up to the year 1200 (matching) on Monday 8/18

c. 8000 BCE Beginnings of agriculture

By 400 BCE Upanishads compiled as philosophical expression of Hinduism

566-486 BCE Buddha in India

6th-5th C BCE Life of Confucius and Laozi (Confucianism/Daoism begin)

32 CE Beginnings of Christianity

312 Emperor Constantine converts to Christinity

380 Christianity becomes state Religion of Roman Empire

4th C Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

622 Founding of Islam

c. 730 Printing invented in China

750-900 Flourishing of Abbasid Caliphate

c. 900 Decline of classical Maya

960-1279 Song Dynasty in China

1054 Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic an Eastern Orthodox)

1095-c 1300 Euro Christian Crusades to Holy Land