FOUNDATIONS TIMELINE - History Showcase
FOUNDATIONS TIMELINE
Activity:
Using colored pencils, create a key for the six AP World history themes. Mark each item below with the theme that best matches it. Be able to discuss which theme(s) are best and least represented. What additional items would you add that you remember from last year?
Interaction
Change and Continuity
Technology and Demography
Social and Gender Structure
Cultural and Intellectual
Politics
460,000 BP 1st use of fire, China
100,000 BP Homo sapiens sapiens, Africa
45,000 BP 1st rock art, Australia
10,500 BCE 1st pottery vessels, Japan
9000 BCE Beginning of farming, Middle East
7500 BCE Migrations over Bering Land Bridge
6500 BCE Grain farming, Europe
Earliest metallurgy, Middle East
6250 BCE Catul Hayuk at peak (one of earliest cities- Anatolia- Turkey)
6000 BCE Millet farming, China
5000 BCE Domestication of maize in New World and cattle in Sahara
4300 BCE Cotton cultivated in Mexico
4000 BCE 1st Temple pyramids, Peru
Introduction of plow
3300 BCE Invention of writing, Mesopotamia
3100 BCE 1st Pharoah of Egypt
3000 BCE Introduction of bronze tools
2500 BCE 1st cities- Mohenjo- Daro, Harappa- in Indus
2100 BCE Domestication of horse in Central Asia
Ziggurats in Ur, Mesopotamia
2000 BCE Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh
1500 BCE First wave of Polynesian migrations
1300 BCE Hittite empire, Middle East
1200 BCE Olmec civilization, Mexico
1000 BCE Beginning of Bantu migrations into southern Africa
800 BCE Rise of Greek City states
770 BCE Rise of Nubia (Upper Nile- Africa)
745 BCE Assyrian empire (Middle East)
570 BCE Birth of Guatama (Buddha), India
551- 223 BCE Era of great Chinese philosophers (Confucious, Lao Tse)
500 BCE First ironworking, Africa
438 BCE Completion of Parthenon, Greece, Age of Pericles
TIMELINE CONTINUED
332 BCE Alexander the Great conquest of Persian empire
268 BCE Beginning of reign of Ashoka (India)
221 BCE Great Wall began , China
206 BCE Han dynasty founded, China
200 BCE Hopewell culture emerges, US Midwest
4 BCE Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
1 CE Regular trading voyages link kingdoms of India to Roman territories
23 CE Later Han (China), invention of paper, compass
100 CE Chinese silk first marketed in Mediterranean
China conquers Vietnam, Choson (Korea)
Rise of kingdom of Axum (Ethiopia)
Camels introduced from Asia for trade in Sahara
300 CE Start of Classic Maya period (Mexico, Central America)
320 CE Gupta dynasty, India
300 - 700 CE Spread of Buddhism
330 CE Christianity - official religion of Roman empire
350 CE Invention of stirrup, China
400 CE Potato domesticated in Andes
500 CE Bananas well established in Africa (from SE Asia)
552 CE Buddhism introduced in Japan
Turkish empire established rule over much of Central Asia
618 CE Rise of Tang Dynasty in China
Korea established Silla kingdom
632 CE Death of Prophet Mohammad, Arabia
Expansion of Islam under 1st four caliphates
Trans-Saharan trade- gold, salt
690 CE Empress Wu rules China
Peak of Buddhist influence in China
700 CE Collapse of Moche civilization in Peru
Spread of Islam
711 CE Islamic armies invade Spain
750 CE Teotihuacan abandoned, Mexico
Abbasid Dynasty, Middle East
800 CE Charlemagne crowned emperor in Rome
Rise of Ghana, west Africa
Expansion of Trans-Saharan trade
802 CE Khmer state in former Cambodia
842 CE Golden age of Byzantium begins
900 -1100CE Golden age of Muslim scholarship
900 CE New plows, horses used for agricultural
939 CE Vietnam independence from China
960 CE Beginning of Sung Dynasty in China
Beginning of Polish state
980 CE Russian conversion to Orthodoxy
1000 CE Stones quarried, Easter island
1st Viking settlement on Newfoundland
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