Basics+of+each+area+divided+by+era

** 3500 – ** ** 500 BCE ** **// Ancient //** || - Bands and tribes - Hunting and gathering - Traditional society - Populated last on globe - POLYTHEISTS || - POLYTHEISTS || - Mostly bands and tribes - Some H&G, some farm - Traditional society - POLYTHEISTS - Bantu Migrations - Pastoralism & farming - POLYTHEISTS - Herding and farming - POLYTHEISTS * **HARRAPPA on Indus** - Aryan migrations || - Bands & tribes - POLYTHEISTS || - Ancestor Worship - POLYTHEISTS - Confucius - Lao Zu (Daoism) || ** 500 BCE -500 CE ** **// Classical //** || - Still bands & tribes - Teotihuacan Mexico - Mayans in Yucatan - Chavin Cult in Andes (South America) || - Greek city states and empire - Roman city state, republic, and empire - Jesus and the spread of Christianity - West Europe connected to the Roman Empire || - Still mostly bands & tribes - North Africa part of Greek and Roman Empires - East Africa connected to Indian Ocean trade || - Arab merchants dominate trade - Part of Greek and Roman Empires - Judaism - Jesus of Nazareth - SILK ROAD TRADE || - Evolving Hinduism - Rise of Buddhism - Mauryan Dynasty (321 – 185 BCE) - Gupta Dynasty (320-550 CE) - Political disunity due to geography - SILK ROAD TRADE || - Bands & tribes - POLYTHEISTS - Merchants trade with Indian Ocean - Indian ideas spread - Rajas - Hinduism - Chinese dominance via tributary relationships || - Period of chaos - Qin unify w/Legalism - Han China blends legalism & Confucianism - Technology = paper, silk, porcelain - SILK ROAD TRADE - Fall of Han = Chaos - Spread of Buddhism || ** 500-1500 CE ** **// Post-Classical //** || - High point of Mayans (600 – 800) - Toltecs in Mexico (950 – 1150) - Mexica migrate to  Mexico around 1200 - Tenochtitlan by 1300 - Aztec and Inca Empires (by around 1430) - Columbus 1492 || - Feudal West Europe - Lords, vassals, serfs, knights - Not connected - Roman Cath. Church - Crusades & Islamic Spain connect a bit - Byzantine East Europe - Caesaropapism - Declining after 600s - SILK ROAD trade - Rise of regional states - Voyages of exploration || - West African Kingdoms - Ghana (400s–1200s) - Mali (1200s-1400s) - Arrival of Islam via trade - Trans Sahara = West - Swahili city states = East Africa - Blended traditional religion and Islam due to Sufis (syncretism) - Slavery - African slavery - Muslims & East - Start of European || - Rise of Islam - Nomadic/tribal nature of the region - Muhammad - Vision 610 - Death 632 - Rise of Sunni v. Shia - Umayyad Dynasty = Arab dominated - Abbasid = Baghdad Cosmopolitan & Sophisticated - Ottoman Turks establish dynasty 1300s || - Islam spreads to India - Umayyad reach the Indus River - Islamic Kingdoms in the North (Delhi) - South mostly Hindu - Sufi mystics or missionaries spread Islam & allow blending - Center of Indian Ocean trade (Emporia) - Hinduism changes and wins back Buddhists (devotional cults) - SILK ROAD TRADE || - Buddhism spreads to Southeast Asia via trade - Blending of Hindu & Buddhism - Islam reaches Melaka by mid 1400s - Competition between a variety of regional kingdoms || - SUI Dynasty re- establishes Empire & builds Grand Canal - TANG expand & strengthen military - SILK ROAD TRADE - SONG de-emphasize military but strong Confucian culture - Ming restore China to traditional values - Voyages of Admiral Zheng He || ** 1500-1750 ** **// Global Age of Interaction //** || - Cortez conquers Aztecs (1519 – 1521) - Pizzaro conquers Inca (1532 - 1533) - Columbian Exchange - Atlantic System of trade (“Triangular Trade”) - Plantation economies - Spanish Land Empire - Settler colonies (Brits) || - European trading-post empires in Indian Ocean - Portuguese, Dutch, British - Transformation = - Protestant Ref. 1517 - Rise of strong states - Absolute France, Spain, Russia, etc. - Constitutional England & Holland - Enlightenment - Euro dominance of Atlantic Trade & cash crops (slavery) || - Decline of West African states & rise of slave trading coastal tribes - European conquest of Swahili city-states - 20 million slaves sent across the Atlantic - Rise of polygamy & other social disruptions - New foods increase pop || - Rise of Turkish Ottoman Islamic Empire - Expansion of territory via strong military using gunpowder - Strong Bureaucracy || - Rise of Mughal Empire (1526-1858) - Muslim minority rules over a Hindu majority - Blending of Islamic and Hindu traditions || - Still dominated by competing regional kingdoms - Europeans begin to control regions via trading post empires - Dutch dominate spice trade in Java (Indonesia) || - Ming China rules until 1644 - Qing Dynasty run by  invading Manchurians until 1910 - Tokugawa centralization over Feudal Japan - Expulsion of Christians from Japan || ** 1750-1914 ** **// Age of Revolution & Industry //** || - American Revolution (1776) - Haitian Revolution (1791) - American Industrialization (1820+) || - French Revolution (1789) - Industrialization - Britain (1765+) - Belgium, Holland, Germany, France (1800+) - Russian attempt via Witte (1850+) - Communist Manifesto (1848) || - Atlantic Slavery cont. - Slavery abolished, leading to South Asian indentured laborers in Africa - European colonization of Africa (1884-1885) || || || || - European dominance over Qing Dynasty - Treaty of Nanjing ends Opium Wars (1843) - Meiji Restoration in Japan after fall of Tokugawa Shogun(1868) - Fall of Qing Dynasty (1911) - Chinese Communist Party Established (1921) || ** 1914-Present ** **// 20th Century //** || - America enters WWI (1917) - Pearl Harbor (1941) - D-Day entry into WWII in France (1944) - Hiroshima & Nagasaki & start of Cold War (1945) - Korean War (1950) - Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro (1962) - Fight in Vietnam (1954- 1975) - Iran Hostrage Crisis (1979) || - WWI (1914-1918) - Marxist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia (1917) - Global Economic Depression - Hitler Chancelor of Germany (1933) - WWII (1939-1945) - West Europe joins NATO (U.S. team) - East Europe joins Warsaw Pact (Soviets) || - Africans fight in WWI for colonial masters - Africans hope for independence, especially after Woodrow Wilson talks about National Self- Determination at Versailles - Rise of Nationalist movements, such as the African National Congress (ANC) - Africans fight in WWII for Europeans - Nationalism leads to further discussion of decolonization. - Bandung Conference for small counties seeking non-alignment (1955) - The Year of Africa where many countries gain independence (1960) - Algeria fights French - Apartheid South Africa - African countries suffer under rulers who have very little training and education. - Mostly military generals - Many are corrupt and attempt to replace European rule. || || - Gandhi fights against unfair treatment of Indians in South Africa - Indian Sepoys fight in WWI on Western Front - Rise of Indian National Congress after war seeking independence - Indians fight in WWII for British. - Gandhi leads movement of non-violent non- cooperation against the British - Indian Independence granted (1947) || || - Japanese Empire building to survive the Great Depression, aka Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1930s) ||
 * ** PERIODIZATION ** || ** Americas ** || ** Europe **  || ** Africa **  || ** West Asia **  || ** South Asia **  || ** SE Asia **  || ** East Asia **  ||
 * * EGYPT on Nile ** || - Many tribes
 * * MESOPOTAMIA on **
 * Tigris & Euphrates ** || - Dravidian
 * * XIA, SHANG, ZHOU **
 * on Yellow River **
 * - MONGOLS conquer **
 * Russia **
 * - MONGOLS **
 * - MONGOLS dominate **
 * China **** as YUAN **
 * ** PERIODIZATION ** || ** Americas ** || ** Europe **  || ** Africa **  || ** West Asia **  || ** South Asia **  || ** SE Asia **  || ** East Asia **  ||