Introduction to the
GeoHistoGram
Objectives: Students will be able to:
• Identify the elements of the
GeoHistoGram
• Explain how the
GeoHistoGram organizes
knowledge
• Identify historical eras and
major events in each
What We Think We Know
All this boils down to:
•Have students use stuff
(maps, pictures, data)
•Translate to remember
(see it, say it, do it, use it)
Eras on the GeoHistoGram
Mark the Eras on the GeoHistoGram
(through Era 7)
Label with title of Era
Discuss the questions in your group
Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society
Pre-history - Homo sapiens spread across the world
ERAS OF WORLD HISTORY
Era 1: The Beginnings of Human Society: (10,000BCE to 4,000 BCE)
Era 2: Early Civilizations and Cultures: (4,000 BCE to 1,000 BCE)
Era 3: Classical Traditions and Major Empires: (1,000 BCE to 300 CE)
Era 4: Expanding and Intensified Hemispheric Interactions: (300 CE to
1500 AD)
Era 5: The Emergence of the First Global Age: (15th through 18th
Centuries)
Era 6: An Age of Global Revolutions: (18th century through 1917)
Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement
Era 8: The Cold War and its Aftermath: (20th Century)
Era 9: The Future: (21st Century)
Era 8: Cold War and Aftermath
Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement
Era 6: Age of Global Revolutions
Era 5: Emergence of 1st Global Age
Era 4: Expanding Hemispheric
Interactions
Era 3: Classical Traditions and Major
Empires
Era 2: Early Civilizations and
Emergence of Pastoral Peoples
Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society
Pre-history - Homo sapiens spread across the world
Era 9: 21st Century?
Era 8: Cold War and Aftermath
Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement
Era 6: Age of Global Revolutions
Era 5: Emergence of 1st Global Age
Era 4: Expanding Hemispheric
Interactions
Era 3: Classical Traditions and Major
Empires
Era 2: Early Civilizations and
Emergence of Pastoral Peoples
Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society
Pre-history - Homo sapiens spread across the world
Pictures on the
GeoHistogram
Identify the era for each
picture. Place its number
on the GeoHistoGram in
the correct era and region.
3
Pre-history - Homo sapiens
spread across the world
Lucy:
3.2 million
years ago
Era 1: The Beginnings of
Human Society
Walls of
Jericho:
8000 BCE
9
5
Era 2: Early Civilization;
Pastoral Peoples
The Great
Sphinx:
~2500 BCE
Era 3: Classical Traditions;
World Religions; Major
Empires
Great Wall:
476 BCE – 1644 CE
11
Roman
Coliseum:
80 CE
13
8
Era 4: Hemispheric
Interactions
Marco Polo:
1292 CE
4
Origin of Islam
~600 CE
2
Era 5: First Global Age
British
Empire:
18th-19th
Century
10
Columbus:
1492 CE
Era 6: Global Revolutions
American
Revolution
1775 - 1781
1
12
Russian
Revolution
1917
6
Era 7: Global Crisis and
Achievement
World War II
1939-1945
Era 8: Cold War and After
7
Dismantling
the Berlin
Wall
1989
7
6
1
12
2
13
10
4
Era 9: 21st Century?
Era 8: Cold War and Aftermath
Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement
Era 6: Age of Global Revolutions
Era 5: Emergence of 1st Global Age
4
Era 4: Expanding Hemispheric
Interactions
8
13
11
Era 3: Classical Traditions and Major
Empires
Era 2: Early Civilizations and
Emergence of Pastoral Peoples
5
Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society
9
3
Pre-history - Homo sapiens spread across the world
Era 9: 21st Century?
Era 8: Cold War and Aftermath
Era 7: Global Crisis and Achievement
Era 6: Age of Global Revolutions
Era 5: Emergence of 1st Global Age
Era 4: Expanding Hemispheric
Interactions
Era 3: Classical Traditions and Major
Empires
Era 2: Early Civilizations and
Emergence of Pastoral Peoples
Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society
Pre-history - Homo sapiens spread across the world
This is the basic form
of the GeoHistoGram –
seven vertical bars.
The
GeoHistoGram
has no definite
beginning date.
Time goes up the side,
from the distant past on the
bottom to the present at the top.
The time before
Era 1 is labeled
Pre-history.
Space goes across the
diagram,
from west on the left
to east on the right.
The bars
represent
major world
regions,
from the
Americas in the
west
to Polynesia in
the east