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Period: 4000 BCE to
Entirety of Study
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Period: 4000 BCE to 600 BCE
Technological and Environmental Transformations
Foundations period -
Period: 4000 BCE to 600 BCE
Sumerian Civilization
The Sumerian city of Uruk is widely regarded to be the oldest/first city in recorded history. -
Period: 3650 BCE to 1400 BCE
Minoan Civilization
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Period: 3000 BCE to 1200 BCE
Bronze Age
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1180 BCE
Hittites
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE
Oracle Bones
Shang Dynasty- record keeping -
Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE
Shang Dynasty
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Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE
Egypt (New Kingdom)
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Period: 1550 BCE to 300 BCE
Phoenician Empire
They were primarily traders; first alphabet; Carthage -
Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE
Important Hindu Literature
Bhagavad Gita, Mahabhrata -
Period: 1400 BCE to 1180 BCE
Hittites
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Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmec Civilization
Huge stone heads -
Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
Metallurgy (iron), dynasty ended in civil war between nobles (Warring States
Period), mandate of heaven, Legalism, Confucianism, Daoism all develop after
civil war begins, mildly centralized government (much local control) -
1000 BCE
Phoenician Alphabet
First alphabet -
Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
Ziggurats
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Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
Cuneiform
Used in Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia -
Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
Discovery of Iron
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Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
Harappan Civilization
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Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
Hinduism Formed
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Period: 900 BCE to 200 BCE
Chavin Empire
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Period: 753 BCE to 410
Rome
The city of Rome, not the Roman Empire -
Period: 600 BCE to Jan 1, 600
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
Codification of major religions (except Islam), great empires/states emerge, long-distance trade networks develop. Religious/government structure -
Period: 600 BCE to Jan 1, 600
Legalism/Confucianism/Daoism
Chinese Governing Principles -
Period: 600 BCE to Jan 1, 600
Legalism, Confucianism, Daoism
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Period: 600 BCE to Jan 1, 600
Long-Distance Trade Networks Begin to Form
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Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama
Creator of Buddhism- was not content with Hinduism, mostly because of the caste system -
Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
Achaemenid Empire
First Persian empire -
Period: 332 BCE to 395
Greco-Roman Period
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Period: 323 BCE to 31
Hellenism
Starts with Alexander the Great's death and ends when Rome captures Egypt, the last of the Hellenistic areas. -
Period: 322 BCE to 185 BCE
Mauryan Empire
Ashoka & Buddhism -
Period: 304 BCE to 232 BCE
Ashoka
Ruled from 268-232 BC. Indian ruler of the Mauryan Empire. -
Period: 300 BCE to 100
Xiongnu
"Xiongnu. The Xiongnu (Old Chinese: /qʰoŋ.nˤa/, Wade–Giles: Hsiung-nu), were a large confederation of Eurasian nomads who dominated the Asian Steppe from the late 3rd century BCE to the late 1st century CE." -
Period: 247 BCE to 224
Parthian Empire
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Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin Dynasty
First Chinese Dynasty -
Period: 206 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty
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Period: 150 BCE to Jan 1, 600
Teotihuacan
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Period: 100 to Jan 1, 700
Moche Civilization
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Period: 224 to Jan 1, 651
Sassanid (Sasanian) Empire
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300
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes Established
Creds to Ibn Battuta for Early TS Trade. Other TS trade was done by the Songhai, Ghana, and Mali Empires, although this was much later on. -
Period: 300 to 500
Golden Age of India
"The period between the 4th century and 6th century CE is known as the Golden Age of india because of the large achievements Indians made in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, science, religion and philosophy during the Gupta Empire." -
Period: 300 to Jan 1, 1200
Ghana Empire
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Period: 300 to Jan 1, 600
First Wave of Polynesian Migration
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Period: 320 to 550
Gupta Empire
Hinduism -
Period: 330 to May 29, 1453
Byzantine Empire
Began by splitting with western Roman Empire; Conquered by Ottoman sultan Mehmet II -
Period: 481 to Jan 1, 843
Frankish Empire
Charlemagne, Christianity, Second Reich -
Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1450
Regional and Trans-regional Interactions
Rise of Islam and interconnected world (except Americas), trade! -
Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1450
Feudalism
Mostly in Europe -
Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1450
Inventions
Saddles, lateen sails, gunpowder, Champa rice, compass -
Period: Jan 1, 600 to Jan 1, 1450
New Trade Cities Develop
Melaka, Kilwa, Novgorod, Cordoba, Hanzhou -
Jan 1, 605
Construction Begins on the Grand Canal
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Period: Jan 1, 618 to Jan 1, 907
Tang Dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 661 to Jan 1, 750
Umayyad Caliphate
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Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 1, 1200
Muslim Agricultural Revolution
Very rough time period -
Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1258
Abbasid Caliphate
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Jan 1, 1250
Golden Age of Islam
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Period: Jan 1, 790 to Jan 1, 1066
Viking Age
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Jan 1, 800
Pacific-Indian Ocean Trading Begins
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Period: Jan 1, 850 to Jan 1, 1100
Neo-Confucianism
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Period: Jan 1, 882 to Jan 1, 1240
Kievan Rus
Trade; Vikings; Would eventually become Russia; Slavic states -
Period: Jan 1, 960 to Jan 1, 1279
Song Dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to Jan 1, 1300
Second Polynesian Migration
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Jan 1, 1054
The Great Schism of 1054
When Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity parted ways. Catholicism=Rome, Orthodox=Constantinople -
Period: Jan 1, 1192 to Jan 1, 1333
Kamakura Shogunate
Japanese feudal government (ruled by shoguns). -
Period: Jan 1, 1206 to Jan 1, 1368
Mongolian Empire
They're the exception. -
Period: Jan 1, 1206 to Jan 1, 1368
Mongolian Empire
They're the exception -
Period: Jan 1, 1210 to Jan 1, 1526
Delhi Sultanate
"Delhi Sultanate, refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India (1210–1526). It was founded after Muhammad of Ghor defeated Prithvi Raj and captured Delhi in 1192." -
Period: Jan 1, 1235 to
Kingdom of Mali
Began to lose power in the 1400's; Mansa Musa -
Period: Jan 1, 1271 to Jan 1, 1368
Yuan Dynasty
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Period: Jan 1, 1280 to Jan 1, 1337
Mansa Musa
Rich & Hajj -
Period: Jan 1, 1299 to
Ottoman Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1400
Pax Mongolica
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Little Ice Age
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Period: Jan 1, 1347 to
Black Plague
Spread so quickly thanks to the Mongols -
Period: Jan 1, 1350 to
Practice of Devshirme
The Ottoman Empire would take Christian children from their homes, force them to convert to Islam, and force them into military sevice (Janissaries). -
Period: Jan 1, 1358 to
Hanseatic League
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Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
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Period: Dec 24, 1375 to
Songhai Empire
Eastern Saharan Africa -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renaissance in Europe
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Period: Dec 24, 1405 to Dec 25, 1433
Zheng He's Exploration
Ming dynasty -
Period: Jan 1, 1428 to Jan 1, 1521
Aztec Empire
Conquistadores -
Period: Jan 1, 1438 to Jan 1, 1533
Inca Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Global Interactions
Globe encompassed by trade, imperialism -
Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Different Social Classes Created
Mestizo, mulatto, and Creole -
Period: Jan 1, 1469 to
Sikhism Begins
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Atlantic Slave Trade
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Columbian Exchange
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Period: Jan 1, 1497 to
Imperial Britain/British Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
Islam in India -
Period: Sep 29, 1547 to
Miguel de Cervantes
Wrote Don Quixote -
Period: to
Chinese Porcelain Trade Begins
Continues to this day -
Kabuki Theater Begins
Under the Tokugawa Shogunate -
Period: to
Tokugawa Shogunate
Last feudal Japanese military government -
Period: to
Tokugawa Shogunate
last feudal Japanese military government -
Period: to
Qing Dynasty
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Period: to
Enlightenment
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Period: to
Olympe de Gouges
French feminist and political activist -
Period: to
Industrialization and Global Integration
Revolutions! Industrialization! -
Period: to
Capitalism/Socialism
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Period: to
Haitian Revolution
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Period: to
Opium War
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Period: to
Seneca Falls Conference
WOMEN'S RIGHTS- SUSAN B ANTHONY -
Period: to
Taiping Rebellion
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Period: to
Xhosa Cattle Killing
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Period: to
Meiji Restoration
Japanese Industrialization -
Period: to
German Empire
Bismarck -
Social Darwinism First Appears
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Period: to
United Fruit
After a period of financial decline, United Fruit was merged with Eli M. Black's AMK in 1970, to become the United Brands Company. In 1984, Carl Lindner, Jr. transformed United Brands into the present-day Chiquita Brands International. -
Period: to
Accelerating Global Change and Realignments
World wars, globalization