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New World History Timeline
Everything for History Semester 1
Created by
Sadie
⟶ Updated 20 Dec 2017 ⟶
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World History Timeline
for 1st semester final exam
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King Narmer/Menes of Upper Egypt -- unites Upper + Lower Egypt by marrying the princess of Lower Egypt 3100 BCE
Ramses II -- greatest pharaoh of Egypt; makes Egypt very wealthy, creates Egyptian Empire 1279-1212 BCE
Sargon -- creates first empire, falls apart after death; ruler of Mesopotamia 2300 BCE
Babylonian Empire -- Nebuchadnezzar II overthrows the Assyrians 605-562 BCE
Persian Empire -- led by Cyrus the Great (600-530 BCE); empire of tolerance and public works
End of Indus Valley -- don't know why it ended → Aryan Invasion Theory 1500 BCE
Shang Dynasty -- believed in animism and ancestor worship; Yangtzi/Yangtzu and Yellow Rivers 1600-1095 BCE
Zhou Dynasty -- Mandate of Heaven → "heaven" gave king authority 1095-476 BCE
Warring States Period -- people war with other people trying to get Mandate of Heaven 476-221 BCE
Qin Dynasty -- first emperor was Qin Shihuangdi; emerged victorious in Warring States Period 221-107 BCE
Roman Republic -- republic; rose as power in the 300s BCE during Hellenistic Period 771 BCE
First Punic War -- Rome invents corvus and Carthage surrenders; Rome gets Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia 264-241 BCE
Second Punic War -- Hannibal → Carthaginian general; attacks Rome through north; Roman Scipio wins war 216-201 BCE
Akbar -- patron of arts but slaughtered many people 1556-1605 BCE
Battle of Marathon -- Athenian fighters on mountain; standstill for many days - Persians attacked when leaving 900 BCE
Second Persian War -- Xerxes is king of Persia, Greeks win + unite, starts Greek Golden Age 480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae -- group of 1000(?) Greeks defend against 300000 Persians + hold them 3-4 days 480 BCE
Battle of Salamis -- naval battle; Greeks use trireme + sink Persian fleet 480 BCE
Battle of Cannae -- Romans were overconfident; Carthaginians learned from past Roman failures + ravage Italy 16 years 216 BCE
The Fall of Rome -- lots of reasons 476 CE
The "Dark" Ages -- less technology and social structures, feudalism, centrality of religion 476-1000 CE
Mughal Empire -- India, held power for about 200 years; Taj Mahal, efficient taxation 1526-1857 CE
Aurangzeb -- discriminated against non-Muslims but stopped many things to reduce costs 1658-1707 BCE
