History of the World Ch. 1-13

Explorers

100

Discovered the St. Lawrence River

Jacques Cartier

200

Founded the first permanent French colony in the New World

Samuel de Champlain 

300

Conquered the Incas of Peru

Francisco Pizarro 

400

Discovered the Pacific Ocean

Vasco de Balboa

500

First European to reach the Far East by sea

Vasco da Gama

Dates

100

Death of Julius Caesar 

44 B.C.

200

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1588

300

Signing of the Magna Carta

1215

400

Battle of Hastings

1066

500

Official split of the Roman Catholic Church

1054

Kings

100

First great king of England

Alfred 

200

Eleven Years’ Tyranny

Charles I

300

English Reformation 

Henry VIII

400

Model Parliament 

Edward I

500

Glorious Revolution

William III

Nations

100

First nation to have a complete written account of its history

Israel 

200

Developed the caste system

India

300

First movable type invented

China

400

First civilization to use writing after the Flood

Sumerians

500

Became an important international crossroads for trade

Indonesia 

Religions and Movements

100

Most important part of any culture 

How man relates to God

200

Resulted from Roman persecution of Christians

Christianity grew

300

Oldest surviving religion of Japan

Shinto

400

Intellectual movement that lifted the darkness of the Middle Ages

Renaissance 

500

Religious organization that held to the philosophy ”the end justifies the means”

Jesuits