Turning Points in World History IDs

Directions: For each event give the Who, What, Where, Why, Historical Context, and Historical significance
Period 1
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8000 BCE Neolithic Revolution

3000 BCE Early River Valleys (Invention of the Wheel and Writing)
1750 BCE Hammurabis Code
1000 BCE The start of the Iron Age
530 BCE Siddhartha Gautama founds Buddhism
500 BCE Democratic traditions start in Athens/ Bantu Migrations Begin

Period 2
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313 CE Christianity made legal in the Roman Empire

476 CE Fall of Rome
618 CE Tang Dynasty
622 CE Islam begins
1000 CE Gunpowder invented

Period 3
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1279 Mongols Conquer China

1347 The Bubonic Plague strikes Europe
1453 Ottoman Turks take Constantinople
1492 Columbus

Period 4
16. 1517 Martin Luthers 95 Thesis
17. 1520s Establishment of the Spanish Empire in the Americas
18. 1607 Jamestown is founded
Period 5
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1550-1700 Scientific Revolution

1750 Industrial Revolution
1776 American Revolution
1789 French Revolution
1810 Mexican Independence
1911 Last Chinese Dynasty falls

Period 6
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1914 WWI
1917 Birth of the Soviet Union
1945 Atomic Bomb
1947 Indian Independence
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990s Chindia Emerging Economic Powers
2001 9/11