1. “Most Important Events to Know” Foundations 8000 BCE- 599 CE • 8000 B.C.E. Neolithic Rev/ Agriculture • 3000 B.C.E. River Valley/ Bronze Ag • 1300 B.C.E.- Iron Age • 6th Century B.C.E. Confucianism, Buddhism , Taoism • 5th Century B.C.E-.Athenian Golden Age/ Persians, Philosophers • 323 B.C.E. Alexander the Great • 221 B.C.E.- Qin unify China • 32 C.E. Beginning of Christianity • 180 C.E. End of Pax Romana • 220 C.E. End of Han ( The 3 Kingdoms, Warring States) • 330 CE – Constantine/ Constantinople • 4th Century- Beginning of Trans- Saharan Trade Route • 476 CE Fall of Rome • 527 CE Justinian Rule 600 CE-1450 CE • 622 Mohamed and the Hijra to Medina from Mecca • 732 Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours against muslims • 1054 Religious Schism • 1066 Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of England. The beginning of the Middle Ages • 1071- Loss of Anatolia to Seljuk Turks • 1095- Crusades • 1258 Rise of Mongols in Korea, Persia • 1271-1295 Marco Polos Journey • 1324- Marco Polo Dies, Mansa Musa in Cairo • 1347-1348 Plague in Europe • 1325-1349 Mansa Musa/IBN Battuta • 1433- end of Zheng He Voyages/ Ming Isolationism • 1433 Rise of Ottomans • 1453- Fall of the Byzantine Empire