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1st semester West Civilization Exam Timeline

Terms in this set (18)

8th century BCE
Homer
6th century BCE
Roman Republic began
5th century BCE
Pericles' Golden Age of Athens
4th century BCE
Alexander the Great established his empire
2nd century BCE
Rome conquered Greece
1st century BCE
a. Roman Republic ended
b. Roman Empire began
1st century
Christianity began
4th century
a. Christianity was legalized in the Roman Empire
b. Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire
5th century
western Roman Empire fell to Germanic tribes
6th century
Justinian ruled the Byzantine Empire
9th century
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance in Holy Roman Empire
11th century
a. Roman Catholic Church and the Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox) Church split
b. Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest of England)
c. Crusades began
13th century
Magna Carta was signed
14th century
Babylonian Captivity
the Black Death
Great Schism began
15th century
Joan of Arc
War of the Roses in England
Gutenberg's printing press
the Renaissance began
Age of Exploration began
16th century
a. Protestant Reformation
b. Council of Trent
17th century
a. England's Civil War and execution of King Charles I
b. England's Glorious Revolution (William and Mary came to the throne)
King Louis XIV ruled France
Peter the Great ruled Russia
Scientific Revolution began
18th century
the Enlightenment
Frederick the Great ruled Prussia
Joseph II ruled Austria
Catherine the Great ruled Russia
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