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54 Cards in this Set
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8000 BCE
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beginning of agriculture
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5th century BCE
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beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Greek Golden Age
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323 BCE
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death of Alexander the Great
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221 BCE
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Qin unified China
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32 CE
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beginnings of Christianity
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220 CE
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end of Han dyansty
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333 CE
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Roman capital moved to Constantinople
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476 CE
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fall of Rome
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527 CE
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Justinian rules Byzantine Empire
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622 CE
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Rise of Islam
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1054 CE
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1st Schism in Christian Church
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1095 CE
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1st Crusade
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1258 CE
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Mongols sack Baghdad
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1271- 1295 CE
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Marco Polo travels
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1324 CE
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Mansa Musa's pilgrimage
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1325- 1349 CE
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travels of Ibn Battuta
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1347-1348 CE
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Bubonic plague in Europe
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1433 CE
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end of Zheng He's voyages
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1453 CE
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Ottomans capture Constantinople
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1488 CE
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Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
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1492 CE
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Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain
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1502 CE
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first slaves to Caribbean
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1517 CE
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Martin Luther/ 95 Theses
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1600 CE
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beginning of Tokugawa shogunate
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1689 CE
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Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights
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1776 CE
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American Revolution
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1789 CE
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French Revolution
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1804 CE
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Haitian independence
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1815 CE
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Congress of Vienna
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1839 CE
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1st Opium War
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1857 CE
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Sepoy Mutiny
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1863 CE
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Emancipation Proclamation issued in US
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1871 CE
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German unification
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1885 CE
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Berlin Conference
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1910- 1920 CE
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Mexican Revolution
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1911 CE
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Chinese Revolution
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1914-1919
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WWI/ Treaty of Versailles
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1917 CE
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Russian Revolution
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1929 CE
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US Stock market crash
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1939 CE
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German blitzkrieg in Poland
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1941 CE
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Pearl Harbor
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1944 CE
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D-day
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1945 CE
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end of WWII
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1947 CE
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India independence
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1948 CE
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birth of Israel
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1949 CE
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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1959 CE
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Cuban Revolution
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1987 CE
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1st Palestinian Intifada
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1989 CE
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Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
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1991 CE
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Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War
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1994
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Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in South Africa
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2001
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9/11
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2003
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Second Gulf War
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2004
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Madrid Train Bombing
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