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1211
Genghis Khan invades China
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1215
King John forced to sign Magna Carta
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1223
Khan invades Russia
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Period: 1231 to 1450
The Inquisition begins
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1251
Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongols
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Period: 1271 to 1295
The Marco Polo travels
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1273
Thomas Aquinas stops work on Summa Theologica
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1295
King Edward I summons the Model Parliament
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Period: 1312 to 1337
Mali Empire reaches height under Mansa Musa
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Period: 1325 to 1450
Renaissance
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Period: 1347 to 1351
Bubonic Plague
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Period: 1347 to 1453
Hundred Years' War
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1368
Ming Dynasty Begins
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Period: 1370 to 1417
The Great Schism
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1415
Henry V defeats French at Agincourt
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Period: 1418 to 1460
Henry the Navigator sponsors travels around Africa's coast
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Period: 1428 to 1431
Joan of Arc leads French against English
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1450
Florence becomes center of Renaissance arts and learning
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1451
Caravel invented
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1453
Turks Conquer Constantinople; beginning of Ottoman Empire
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Period: 1492 to 1508
Ivan the Great rules Russia
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Period: 1492 to 1502
Christopher Columbus begins travels
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Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Mar 5, 1496
King Henry VII signs agreement to travel Western Hemisphere
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1498
Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India
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Period: 1500 to
Privateering
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1501
First black slaves in America
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1509
Henry VIII ascends English throne
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1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 theses
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Period: 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
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1547
Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) crowned as czar of Russia
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Period: 1558 to
Queen Elizabeth I ascends the throne
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English East India Company established
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Jamestown, Virginia, established
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Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope
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Period: to
Thirty Years War
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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Period: to
English Civil War
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Royal African Company
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Period: to
Great Plague in London
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Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
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Period: to
War of the Spanish Succession
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Press Freedom established
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Publication of the Encyclopédie begins
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Samual Johnson's dictionary first published
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Great Earthquake in Lisbon (60,000 dead)
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Period: to
Seven Years' War
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British Empire in India established
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Jean Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract
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Britain imposes the Stamp Act on the American colonists.
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James Watt invents the steam engine
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Period: to
The American Revolution
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The Boston Massacre
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The Boston Tea Party
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Declaration of Independence
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The Constitution of the United States signed
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Period: to
Second Great Awakening
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Louisiana Purchase
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Period: to
War of 1812
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Missouri Compromise
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American System
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Period: to
Trail of Tears
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Texas Rebellion
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Period: to
Mexican American War
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Compromise of 1850
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Kansas -Nebraska Act
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Period: to
Civil War
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Transcontinental Railroad
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Telephone invented
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Compromise of 1877
