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Major Dates/Turning Points in World History (These dates give preference to political events/interactions…keep that in mind) Period 1 - 250,000 years ago: migrations out of Africa - 12,000 BCE: Humans begin settlements - 10,000 BCE: Agricultural Revolution - 3500 BCE: First civilization in Mesopotamia (Sumerians) Period 2 - 500s-300s BCE: Chinese belief systems emerge (Daoism, Legalism, Confucianism) - 500s – 400s BCE: Establishment of Buddhism - 330s and 320s BCE: Alexander the Great - 27 BCE: Establishment of the Roman Empire (Emperor Augustus) - 330s CE and after: Adoption of Christianity in Roman Empire (Constantine, Theodosius) - 476 CE: Fall of the Western Roman Empire - 220 CE: Fall of the Han Dynasty - 300s CE and after: Establishment of Buddhism in China - 250-900 CE: “Golden Age” of the Mayans Period 3 - 622 and after: Establishment and spread of Islam - 1258: Mongols sack Baghdad (end of Abbasid Empire) - 1453: Ottomans conquer Constantinople (end of Byzantine Empire) - 1200-1450: Time of the Mongols - 800s: Printing invented in China - 1000s: Gunpowder invented in China - Early 1400s: Zheng He’s maritime expeditions - 1340s: Worst wave of Black Death - 1095: First Crusade launched - 1054: Official split of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy - 600s-1300s: Feudalism in Japan and Europe Period 4 - 1492: Columbus reached the Americas for Spain - 1498: Vasco da Gama reached the Indian Ocean for Portugal - 1520s and 1530s: Spanish conquests in the Americas - 1500-1800: Russian Expansion/Conquests - 1600s: British East India Company arrives in India - 1500-1800: Sugar Trade, Silver Trade, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Columbian Exchange - 1517: Protestant Reformation in Europe (Martin Luther) - 1600s and 1700s: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment in Europe Period 5 - 1789: French Revolution (and the beginnings of Nationalism) - 1780s: Industrial Revolution begins in Britain - Early 1800s: Abolition movement in Britain - 1871: Establishment of Germany as a nation-state - 1875-1900: Scramble for Africa (colonization) - Early 1800s: Independence revolutions in Latin America - 1888: Brazil abolishes slavery (the last to do so in the Americas) - 1858: Indian Rebellion (after which the British government takes direct control of India from the British East India Company) - 1840-1900: Ottoman Reforms (Tanzimat, Young Ottomans, Young Turks) - 1840s and 1850s: Opium Wars (2 of them, China loses) - 1850-1864: Taiping Uprising/civil war in China - 1860-1900: Spheres of Influence established in China - 1899-1901: Boxer Rebellion in China - 1853: Matthew Perry “opens up” Japan to the West - 1870-early 1900s: Meiji Restoration and Industrialization in Japan Period 6 - 1914-1918: World War I - 1929-1940s: Great Depression - 1933-1945: Hitler - 1937: World War II in Asia begins - 1939: World War II in Europe begins - 1945: End of World War II - 1923: Turkey established by Ataturk - 1917: Communist Revolution in Russia - 1991: Soviet Union falls (and the Cold War ends) - 1911: Qing Dynasty collapses - 1949: China becomes Communist (Mao Zedong in charge) - 1976 to present: Deng Xiaoping in charge and economic “opening up” and growth - 1947: Partition of India/Pakistan - 1950s and 1960s: Decolonization in Africa - 1994: End of Apartheid in South Africa