|[[File:Regions of the Lands of Islam by al-Muqaddasi.jpg|320 px|The lands and cities of the Dar al-Islam in the 10th century, according to the geographer al-Muqaddasi]]
[[File:Regions of the Lands of Islam by al-Muqaddasi.jpg|thumb|The lands and cities of the Dar al-Islam in the 10th century, according to the geographer al-Muqaddasi]]
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* Persian Tajiks who converted to Islam and
* Persian Tajiks who converted to Islam and
introduced it to northern India
introduced it to northern India
* established Islamic capital at the ancient city, Dehli, India
* established Islamic capital at the ancient city, Dehli, India
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|Delhi Sultanate, northern India
|Delhi Sultanate, northern India
* established by a Ghurid general, a Turkish slave who became a military leader (a "'''Mamluk'''" = non-Arab slave given military and administrative duties)
* established by a Ghurid general, a Turkish slave who became a military leader (a "'''Mamluk'''" = non-Arab slave given military and administrative duties)
* Mamluk Dynasty (1206-1290)
* Mamluk Dynasty (1206-1290)
Revision as of 14:23, 13 May 2022
AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
Article purpose: timeline w/ sortable chart for themes and places
Dates
Place/Empire
Region
Theme
Theme 2
Main Ideas/ Notes
Other
Units 1-2, 1200 to 1450
750-1258
Abbasid Caliphate
3rd caliphate
capital Baghdad
Mideast
religion
Islam
Dar al-Islam, Pax Islamica
960-1279
Song Dynasty
China
1095-1492
Crusades
Europe
religion
1173-1206
Ghurid dynasty
Persian Tajiks who converted to Islam and
introduced it to northern India
established Islamic capital at the ancient city, Dehli, India
South Asia
cultural diffusion
transferred Persian culture to northern India, including literature and architecture
Ghurs were Tajik (Persian ethnic) tribes, likely from central Afghanistan, who, with other Turkic tribes frequently raided western and northern India
the Ghurs fell under the Islamic Turkic rule over Persia, Afghanistan and northern India
the Ghurs then established their own rule over Persia and expanded eastward across northern India
1206-1526
Delhi Sultanate, northern India
established by a Ghurid general, a Turkish slave who became a military leader (a "Mamluk" = non-Arab slave given military and administrative duties)
Mamluk Dynasty (1206-1290)
oversaw migration wave of West Asian Muslims fleeing Mongol invasions
South Asia
cultural diffusion
Islam
Muslim rulers tolerated but looked down upon local religions
they were more concerned with administration, prestige and wealth than with religious suppression
1206-1277
Genghis Khan
Asia
1215
Magna Carta
Europe
1258
Abbasid Caliphate ends
1271-1285
Mongol invasion of Japan fails
1260
Mongol Empire divided into 4 khanates
1271-1295
Marco Polo's travels
1260-1350
Pax Mongolia
1279
peak of Mongol Empire
1279-1368
Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol rule)
1282
introduction of water-powered paper-mill "
China
technology
1299-1923
Ottoman Empire
1400-1600
Italian Renaissance
1324
Mansa Musa pilgrimage to Mecca
1325
Tenochitlan founded
1325-1354
Ibn Battuta's travels
1336-
Vijayanagara Empire
India
empire
religion
Hindu empire, stopped Islamic spread to southern India by defeating the Deccan sultanates
1346
Black Death in China
1347-1388
Black Death in Europe
1351-1368
Red Turban Rebellion
1353
gunpower perfected in Germany; first European cannon
Europe
technology
with improved metalworking, increased firing range and durability over early Chinese and Middle Eastern guns
having originated in China, European gunpowder was brought there by the Portuguese in the 15th century
1368-1644
Ming Dynasty
1405-1433
Zheng He's treasure voyages
1428-1521
Aztec Empire
1438-1533
Inca Empire
1440
Swahili city-states
1440
Guteneberg invents printing press
1400s
Portuguese caravel developed
1441
Atlantic slave trade in Atlantic islands
Units 3-4, 1450-1750
1453
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople & collapse of Byzantine empire
Europe
empire
1453-1736
Gunpowder empires
Islamic empires built / expanded on use of gunpowder, especially muskets and cannon
Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal empires
West & South Asia
technology
economy
created stable economies
1450s-1480s
Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow
1464-1591
Songhai Empire
1469
Sikhism begins
1492
Reconquista of Spain completed
1492
Columbus's 1st voyage to Americas
1498
Vasco da Gama reaches India
1501-1722
Safavid Empire
1534
African slaves trade to Americas starts
1509-1543
Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules Kongo Empire
1517
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
1519-1521
Magellan voyage around the world
1526-1748
Mughal Empire
Babur, warrior chief from Uzbekistan
used firearms to conquer upper India
expanded under constant warfare as form of government
Akbar established imperial structure that lasted until 1720; imposed agriculture tax via which monetized peasant economy
fell to Maratha Empire (confederacy of Hindu states)
South Asia
India
religion
use of firearms (guns and cannon)
coinage
1534
France claims St. Lawrence riverway (Quebec colony)
1543
Copernicus / heliocentric universe
1545
Potosi mine opened in Bolivia
1550-1700
Scientific Revolution
1552
Russian Empire begins
1556-1605
Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire
1571
Manila founded by Spanish
1595
Dutch "Fluyt" cargo ship introduced
1600
British East India Company founded
1600-1826
Tokugawa shogunate
1602
Dutch East India Company founded
1607
Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown
1623-1641
Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan
1632
Taj Mahal built
1643-1715
Louis XIV rules France
1652
Boers colonize South Africa
1687
Newton publishes Principia
1688-1911/12
Qing (Manchu) Empire
Peter the Great rules Russia
1689
Glorious Revolution in England
1698
Early steam engine invented
The Enlightenment
Units 5-6, 1750 to 1900
1756-1763
Seven Years' War
1757
Battle of Plassey in India
1760-1789
First Industrial Revolution
1765-1783
American Revolution
1776
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published
1776
Declaration of Independence
1789-1795
French Revolution
1791-1804
Haitian Revolution
1792
Mary Wollstonecraft' "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
1793
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
1799-1815
Napoleonic period
1806-1826
Latin American revolutions/ Bolivar
1815
Congress of Vienna
1839-1860
Opium Wars
1839-1876
Ottoman Tanzimat reforms
1845-1849
Irish potato famine
1848
Communist Manifesto published
1848
Seneca Falls Convention
1850-1864
Taiping Rebellion
1854
Commodore Perry opens Japan
1857
Sepoy Rebellion
1859-1869
Suez Canal built
1861
emancipation of Russian serfs
1863
Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
1865-1909
King Leopold rule of Congo
1868
Meiji Restoration in Japan
1870-1914
Second Industrial Revolution
1871
Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck
1885
Berlin Conference & the "scramble for Africa
1890s
European spheres of influence in China
1896
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia)
1898
Spanish-American War
1899
Boer War
1899
United Fruit Company formed
1899-1901
Boxer Rebellion
Units 7-9, 1900 to Present
1904
U.S. starts Panama Canal
1904-1905
Russo-Japanese War
1906
Muslim League founded
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
1914-1918
World War I
1915-1917
Armenian genocide
1917
Russian revolution
1917
Zimmerman telegram & US entry to WWI
1920
League of Nations established
1922
Stalin assumes Soviet leadership
1922
Ottoman empire ends
1923
Turkey established
1927-1936
Chinese Civil War
1929-1939
worldwide economic depressions
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1933-39
New Deal
1936-1938
Great Purge in USSR
1939-1945
World War II
1941
Pearl Harbor attack
1941-1945
Holocaust
1941-1953
Stalin total rule
1943-1949
Greek civil war
1943-1978
Green Revolution
1945-1950
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945
atomic bombs dropped
1946
Philippine independence
1947
Partition of India
1947
Japanese Empire formally ended
1947
Truman Doctrine
1947-1990
Cold War
1948
Israel founded
1949
NATO established
1950-1953
Korean War
1953-1959
Cuban Revolution
1955
Warsaw Pact founded
1955
Bandung Conference
1955
Polio vaccine introduced
1955-1975
Vietnam War
1956
Khrushchev takes power
1958-1962
Great Leap Forward/ Cultural Revolution
1960
"Year of Africa"
1961
President Eisenhower warns of "military-industrial complex"