Major Events
Periods of Time
Major Changes
Cause & Effect
Hong Kong
100
This country celebrates the 1949 establishment of its People's Republic on October 1st each year.
What is China?
100
Ideas of democracy, education and the Olympics originated with this period of time.
What is Ancient Greece?
100
The invention of this in the early 21st century transformed communication.
What is social media?
100
This caused the United States to invade Afghanistan in 2001 as it declared its 'war on terror'.
What is the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in New York City?
100
In July, 1997, control of Hong Kong is returned to China from this nation.
What is Britain?
200
Prior to its civil war, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia were a part of this country.
What is Yugoslavia?
200
The period of time when machines and factories took over the making of goods from people by hand in small workshops.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
200
This company has changed the way people look for information.
What is Google?
200
John McCrae's WWI poem, "In Flander's Fields" resulted in this becoming a symbol of remembrance.
What is the poppy?
200
China gives control of Hong Kong Island to Britain in 1842 after this war.
What is the First Opium War?
300
When this came down in 1989, Germany was reunited.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This period of time is sometimes referred to as an awakening, when the world discovered its curiosity and the areas of mathematics, science and the arts grew dramatically, especially in Europe.
What is The Renaissance?
300
This disease reduced the world population from 450 million to approximately 350 million in the 14th century.
What is the Bubonic Plague? (or black death or The Plague) This disease is thought to have originated in China, killing 30% of it's population, then travelled along trading routes until reaching Europe. It took Europe 150 years to recover its population.)
300
The historians do not agree on when this device was invented, when it arrived in Europe it sparked "The Age of Exploration".
What is the compass? (Invented in China. Some researchers say as early as 850, others say later, in 1050. Then passed on through trade routes, arriving in Europe in the early 1400s. This invention, along with other new technologies such as the astrolabe, chronometer, and triangular sail, came together to support improved map-making, which in turn allowed for greater exploration.)
300
Hong Kong is known as an SAR, which stands for this.
What is Special Administrative Region?
400
In the early 13th century, this man led the Mongol Empire to conquer more territory than any other nation in history, before this time or since.
Who is Genghis Khan?
400
The purpose of this age was to improve society by using reason and logic to solve problems, rather than traditions and faith.
What is the Age of Reason, or Age of Enlightenment.
400
This state's power increased after World War II, resulting in the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union? (or USSR) (The USSR was disolved in 1991 and replaced with 15 different nations. This also brought an end to the Cold War.)
400
Books became easier and cheaper to make because of this invention, allowing people to share their own ideas.
What is the printing press?
400
Hong Kong was first recognized as a territory by this ruling Dynasty in 221 BC.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
500
Thomas Jefferson wrote this document, which was sent to England, beginning a war and marking the start of a new nation in July of 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
This age followed the decline of the Roman Empire, and did not have extended evenings as it's name would suggest.
What is the Dark Ages?
500
Although he spent 27 years in jail, this man continuously fought for human rights, bringing an end to apartheid South Africa and then becoming president, in its first fully democratic election.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
500
The use of this weapon caused the destruction of two Japanese cities in WWII and the beginning of the peace movement.
What is the atomic bomb?
500
The outbreak of this disease cause great economic hardship for Hong Kong, but improved the public's awareness of health and the spread of germs.
What is the SARS epidemic?
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