Miss Rice's Timeline
750 Abbasids overthrow the Umayyads
800 Charlemagne controls most of Western Europe
850 Empire of Ghana becomes a powerful trade center
800 Use of an alphabet
776 First Olympic Games
551 Confuscius is born
509 Rome is founded
447 Parthenon is built in Greece
399 The great philosopher, Socrates, dies
44 The great leader, Julius Caesar is assassinated
4 Birth of Jesus
- 1508 – Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel
- 1517 – Martin Luther posts the 95 Thesis
- 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan attempts to circumnavigate the Earth
- 1564 – Shakespeare born in England
- 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia becomes the first successful English settlement in the Americas
- 1750s – About 12 million kidnapped Africans are brought to the Americas by this time
- 1776 – America declares independence from Britain
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1800 A.C.E
900 B.C.E
570 Muhammad is born
630 Muhammad returns to Mecca
661 Islam Splits
300 Beginning of the use of camel caravans in Trans- Saharan Trade
300 Buddhism flourishes in China
312 Constantine makes Christianity legal in Rome
395 Roman Empire Splits
1000 Muslim science and medicine flourish
1076 Almoravids seize control of Ghana’s capital
1096 The first Crusade begins a 174-year holy war between Christians & Muslims
1206 Ghengis Khan unites Mongol clans
1215 English nobles force King John to sign the Magna Carta
1240 Empire of Mali formed by Chief Sundiata
1279 Mongols crush Song Dynasty
1324 Mansa Musa begins his pilgrimage to Mecca
1347 A trading ship first brings the Plague to Italy
1368 Chinese rebels overthrow Mongols
1455 Gutenberg prints complete version of the Bible
1492 Christopher Columbus sails West to reach China, finds the Bahamas
1493 The Columbian Exchange begins trade between the Americas & Europe
1493 Askia Muhammad takes control of the Songhai Empire