Regional and Thematic Outlines

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2012 APWH Regional &
Thematic Outlines
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Regional Outlines
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Asia (East & South Asia)
Europe (Eastern & Western)
Latin America
Mediterranean
Middle East
United States 1 & 2
Thematic Outlines
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Demographic
Gender Relations
Global Trade
Religion
Regional Outline for: Sub-Saharan Africa
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
Re-colonization of Africa;
Sierra Leone, Liberia ;
coastal kingdoms ruled by
warlords/merchants;
intertribal war; Revolutions;
White Man’s Burden
End of Atlantic Slave
Trade Islamic states of
West Africa still trade
slaves; rely on slave trade
more; economic slump
Decolonization of Africa;
attempt at representative
government; involved in
WWII; renewed independence
efforts civil war, government
corruption; socialism
Demographic shifts; more
males in the slave trade than
females (females traded
more in the East coast);
depopulated
Rapid population growth
Spanish Flu (global
epidemic); clear black
majority making
decolonization easier
(apartheid in South Africa)
Hellenistic thought,
science/math
manioc, maize, sweet
potatoes (from America);
technology suffered due to
slave trade
Industrialization; guns,
textiles, alcohol (importance
of foreign imports);
Enlightenment
Slow technological
development due to
colonization, mercantilism,
internal instability; miners; no
money for industrial goods
after WWI; oil (Nigeria)
Pyramids, temples,
hieroglyphics
Linguistic, architectural, artistic
version of Christianity;
calligraphy, Mosques, minarets
Islamic art/architecture,
paper making; arts suffered
due to slave trade
Christian/ Islamic arts ;
literary/ artistic forms of the
west
Western artistic forms,
religious art, native art
(export)
Empire
Geography—protected,
unique civilization, not as
urban as Mesopotamia, Nile
river
Islamic urban center, Bantu
Migrations, trade centers,
Trans-Saharan trade route
Part of Triangular Trade
(with Europe and America);
beginnings of European
exploration ; Kongo, Benin,
Mali, Songhay
Open to foreign takeover
due to economic slump;
colonized by Europe
Decolonization new
sovereign nations
Religion
Polytheism , afterlife
(mummification), Book of
the Dead
Islam , Christianity in Ethiopia
and Egypt, animistic,
syncretism,
Islam, Christianity,
animism, ancestor
worshipsyncretism
Islam, Christianity,
animism, ancestor
worshipsyncretism
Islam, Christianity,
animism, atheists
1450-1750 CE
Politics
Pharaoh/queen (living
incarnation of sun god),
internal disorder, invasions
(900 BCE), irrigation
Kingship legitimized by Islam,
‘People of The Book’, Bantu
(stateless societies)
leaders cooperated with
slave traders; monarchy
Economy
Trade with Kush and
Mesopotamia, agricultural
villages engaged in trade.
Trade, with Islam as unifying
factor, trans-Saharan trade
routes; Ghana (gold), Mali;
gold, salt, honey, slaves, ivory,
imports, trade with Byzantine
Empire, agriculture
Triangular Trade/ TransAtlantic Slave Trade; guns
traded for slaves; slave trade
with Mediterranean world
Social
Class/Gender
Patriarchal, but women
manage household, own
property, regents of rulers,
priestesses, scribes, can
divorce, high priest class
Merchants valued; patriarchal
society, rich women more
restricted; Islamic law, ‘People
of the Book’, religious
tolerance, class centered around
age group
Science/Inventions Hieroglyphics, bronze tools,
papyrus, 365 day calendar,
medicine, math, astronomy,
iron
Art/Architecture
Globalized economies;
mercantilism in former
colonies; poverty stricken
countries; international debt
Regional Outline for East Asia (China, Japan, Koreas, Vietnam)
South Asia
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
Politics
Dynasties with emperorsmandate of heaven
Start of
bureaucracy/meritocracy
8000 – 600 CE
Japan borrowed from China
Increased bureaucracy
Tributary system
Constant threat from North
Prince Shotoku then
daimyos
Fall of Ming from
internal/external - Manchu
Japan: Warring States
Period to Tokogawa
Shogunate
Centralized rule
Abdication of Qing,
unification of China
Fight for control with Mao
Japan: abolishes feudalism,
Civil code, regional govs
Nationalism = huge force
Economy
Lots of money flowing in
from Silk Roads
Otherwise agricultural
Paper money
Credit or “flying money”
High taxes cause peasant
revolts
Serfs bound to land
China: trade with
Europeans in Qing
Japan: manufacturing,
merchant class get wealth
and power , urbanization,
population growth
Provide labor for
plantations/mines
Meiji Restoration- quickly
industrialized in Japan
Decolonization from Europe
Nominally democratic
Tensions- China and West
USSR/China split
Birth of Chinese Republic
Japan: parliamentary
capitalism
Modernization of Japan,
Taiwan, South Korea
Post- industrial/high-tech
Less affected by global
depression
Need natural resources
Social
Class/Gender
Patriarchal
Confucian principles
Women only power in court
Scholars/officials  military
 artisans
Few live in cities
Code of Bushido- chivalry
Women lost freedom in Japan
Foreigners allowed in China
Manchus higher than Chinese
Japan: hierarchy becomes
unbreakable, samurai at top
lower class women more free –
upper obey or die
Rigid Tokogawa hierarchy
ended
Middle class grows power
Lower classes- horrible
conditions, taxed a lot
Science/Inventions
Iron Age
Modernized army
Paper, accurate
sundials/calendars, agriculture
improvements (plow)
Gunpowder for military
Boasts = junks
Navigation/block printing
Iron production
Agriculture technique 
population  cities
Gunpowder more prevalent
Globalization of trade
British introduced opium to
China
Westernization of Japan
- steamships/railroads
Communication revolution
Brush painting
Palaces
Infrastructure (roads, inns,
postal stations)
Japan: haiku, pencil sketches,
ink sketches, Noh drama, tea
ceremony
Japan: kabuki theatre replaces
restrained drama,
Woodblock prints = art form,
borrowed Korean ceramics and
western oil painting
Artistic styles change more
rapidly and radically than ever
before
Theme for lit- resisting US
New style= cubism
Movie industry
Use of concrete and glass
New skepticism
Collapse of empires in
China from internal
problems – economic
depression, natural
catastrophe, social unrest
Mongol empires – conquer
China, but fail in Japan 
replaced by Ottoman Turks
and Ju Yuanzahng of Ming
dynasty
Japan empire centralized
Fall of the Manchu empire
Interaction with west =
China – relatively isolated,
Japan- periods of isolation
and acceptance
The fall of China – opium
wars, internal rebellions,
external lasses, Boxer
Rebellion
Japanese imperialismTaiwan, Korea, Russia
Japan- WWII- invades
Manchuria, China, Siberia –
taking over Southeast Asia,
Bomb Pearl Harbor – brings
US into war  atomic
bomb  US occupies Japan
Polytheism, animism ancestor
worship
Confucianism, Legalism
Daoism, also spread of
Buddhism from India
Buddhist missionaries
Shinto religion
Influenced by monotheistic
religions
Neo- Confucian thought
New sects of Buddhism from
China to Japan
Neo- Confucianism increase
(ethnocentric, historicism,
rationalism)
Scientific/secular world
becomes dominant
Religious fundamentalism
Western appreciation for
science spread
Art/Architecture
Empire
Religion
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
Slow to embrace/tolerate
diversity and individualism
High degree/variety social
services
Rise of feminism- suffrage
Women went worked WWII
Foot binding outlawed
Atomic bombs
Nuclear weaponry
Militarism in Japan
Computer, internet,
biotechnology and genetic
science
South Asia
South Asia
8000-600
CE
600-1450
CE
Politics
Economy
Social Class/ Gender
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Aryans (1500 BCE)
16 states
Then Maurya (321-185
BCE)
Central, powerful military
Then Gupta Empire (320 –
550 CE)
Central control w/ village
gov’ts
Collapse of Delhi sultanate
in 1300’s
Active trade and
communication with Sumer
Ashoka (Maurya) promote
trade with rest areas for
travelers and Buddhist
missionaries
Trade with Mesopotamia –
Silk, cotton, elephants
Silk Road
Warrior aristocracy/ enslaved
Dravidians
Arayans stratify class – Varna –
four classes
Patriarchal
Customs devalued women
More isolated – purdh
Indian Ocean trade and
Trade with Islamic World,
China, East Africa and
Persia
Traded: cotton, silk,
elephants, gems, cinnamon,
and salt
Thrived due to cotton trade
Caste system
14501750 CE
Centralized under Mughal
17501914 CE
Mughal empire, Buhudar
Shahill sent into exile
Indian National congress
Ghandi
European influence
Nationalism
Indian National Congress
Push for independence
(finally get after WWII)
1914Present
8000-600 CE
Science/
Inventions
Pi, Zero, numerical
system, medicine,
European traders
British East India Company
Globalization facilitate and
create greater trade across
the globe
Patriarchal
Treatment of women better
under Akbar (initially) – allowed
widows to remarry and
intermarry between Hindus and
Muslims, portray talents openly
More racial based
Abolish inhumane cultural
traditions (Sati)
Still patriarchal w/ caste system
Art/ Architecture
Empire
Religion
Paintings, temples,
sculptures,
Indus
Hinduism…Buddhism
astronomy, plastic
surgery
600-1450
CE
1450-1750 CE
1750-1914 CE
1914- Present
courtyard
Gunpowder
technology
Blended w/
Muslim
Arches, domes
Taj Mahal
European
education
promotes science/
invention
Roads, railroads,
canals
Mughal
Gunpowder empire
Decline: due to
opening to foreign
control
British colony
After civil war:
India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh
Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism
Islam, Buddhism…
though mostly Hindu
Hindu, Islam,
Buddhism,
Christianity (though
not very popular)
Muslim minority
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
Politics
Religion based
Hierarchal system
Delegation of
responsibility
Bureaucratic
codification
6th century Justinian
rule – restore Rome
Mongol invasion 1237-1241
- Russia divided into small
kingdoms
Tartars control
- left day to day control to
locals
Economy
Byzantine empire
Most important
western terminal of
the Silk Road
Constantinople
located on important
trade routs
Social
Class/Gender
Serfdom began in
Middle Age
Original sin devalues
women
Trade lapsed under Tartars
North-south commerce never
returned
Moscow – trade, tribute
collector
Most part, remained
agricultural
Trades with nomadic people
Influx of jews
Monogamy replaced
polygamy
Fairly free farmers
Boyars-aristocrats-less
political power
Science
Inventions
Ornate churches
Icons, illuminated
manuscripts
Religious art vs. local music,
street performers & theater
Empire
Byzantine Empire
Religion
Animist – gods of
sun, thunder, wind
and fire
Kievan Rus
could not replicate Byzantine
Kievan decline – rival
princes set up regional
governments
Rapid decline of Byzantium
Vladimir I convert to
Christianity
forced conversion
Splendor of Orthodox
religious ceremonies
Religion allowed to have
vernacular languages
1914 - Present
Ivan III/IV Free from Mongols – 1480
Empire expanded eastward
Russia – centralization of authority
Peter the Great – St. Petersburg as
capital
Parliamentary government
Secret police
First Russian navy
Key economy bound to agriculture
Devalued merchant class
Limited commercial exchange
Systemized tax system
Metallurgy and mining
Economics funded military
Russia – tsar continued to be all
powerful
Prussia – remained militaristic and
authoritarian
Duma created, but no real power
Local rulers – zemstvoes regulate
roads, schools
Military officers based on
meritocracy
Backward position in trade
Exported some grain to W. Europe
Trade deficit lessened by increasing
serf output, not improving industry
- realizes the need to industrialize
But sill doesn’t want to be
materialistic
Tsarist regime falls apart
Army in full retreat
USSR formed – collapses following cold war
Soviet troops occupy all of eastern Europe
Gorbachev tries to reform
frees E. European nations
updated authoritarian structure in reality
Feudalism
Peter the Great encourages serfdom
Women and nobles forced to dress
in western fashions
Men shaved beards – denial of
Mongol tradition
Power to upper class women
Focus on Serfs-cheap labor force
Emancipating serfs 1861
-but most indebted, life doesn’t
improve
Increased literacy
Some upper class women have
access to new careers
Pogroms against Jews
Western machinery imported
Outdated agricultural methods –
hard to compete
Muslim population growth
Lenin’s New Economic Policy gave freedom
to small businesses, peasant landowners –
more power
Education started to spread – literacy
impeded invention or new
scientific ideas
John Desarguliers builds first
steam engine outside England
Hagia Sophia
Mosaic
Religion based
Art/Architectre
Regional Outline for Eastern Europe
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
Mendel and some peas, Pavlov
and his dog
Not part of Renaissance due to
illiterate Mongols
Architecture of city done by serfs
Romanov Policy
- Italian artists/architects to work on
churches/palaces
Connection to Byzantine Empire
- married niece of emperor
Expansion – fought Ottoman Empire
Fall of Byzantine Empire (1453)
Beginning of some arts flourish
-Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikivsky
Orthodox Christianity moved to
Moscow
Romanov family – state control over
Russian Orthodox Church
Russification – all Russians had to
convert to Orthodoxy
Nationalist pride through
dictionaries, histories, folktales,
music
COMECON
Economies nationalized
Collectivization under state planned control
Soviet welfare system
Focus on heavy industry
Lenin’s New economic policy
Russia-five year plan
Cold War – Arms race, space race Scientists
highly respected
Research heavily funded
Direction/research determined by government
– want applied science
Art-attacked western style
Classical arts
Literature walked line of angering government
– still discussed patriotism/Russian
Soviet schools taught religion as myth under
Stalin
No church service to under 18
Western Europe
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
Politics
democracy (Greece),
republic (Rome),
Small feudal kingdoms
Decentralization
Holy Roman Empire,
Franks, English
Monarchies
Emerging nationalism
Emerging constitutional
monarchies
rivalries between nations
strong
Experiments with socialism,
communism
Swing between right and left
wings
Economy
Trade within regions,
sometimes trade
through silk road
Manorialism
Self-sufficient
Some Trade
European exploration:
start of mercantilism
colonialism
Columbian Exch.
mercantilism really took
off
mass production of goods
global trade
Globally interconnected
Capitalism
Industrialized nations better
Germanic tribes
Serfdom
Slaves, citizen, free
women inferior
Feudalism/ Chivalry
Power by land owners
Peasants tied to land
Hierarchical system
based on race and
ethnocentrism
women devalued
Enlightment ideas gave
women rise
end of slave trade
racism still exists
Feminism
Attempts to end racism
persecution jews, minorities
meritocracy
Gutenberg – Printing
Press
Lateen Sails
Scientific Revolution
Navigation technology
Industrial Revolution
Assembly line, mass
production, technology in
general
nuclear power,
Internet,
Domed, ideal human
form, literary works,
such as Epic by Homer
Gothic style
Polyphonic music
Renaissance
Humanism
beginning of modern
art—abstract art, cubism,
impressionism
New uses of concrete and glass,
Movies, Cubism
Empire
Greece, Rome
Holy Roman Empire
England, Iberia…
nation states emerge
Imperialism
always expanding and
colonizing
Empires broken up colonies
independent, self determination
Religion
polytheism, animism
Roman Catholic
Protestant
reformation—
Calvinism, Anglican
Church,
Huguenots
Protestant religions
Better religious tolerance
Social
Class/Gender
Science/Inventions Pythagoras, created
field of medicine
Art/Architecture
1914 - Present
Regional Outline for Latin America
8000 – 600
CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1450-1750 CE
1914 - Present
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The leaders are related to
divinity (priests)
Hierarchal system
- Arrival of Cortes (1518)
- Annihilates existing political
system
- Codified laws
- Colonization
- Implement own government
(Europeans immigrate)
- Religion (Catholic) plays a
strong influence in gov’t
Economy
-
Little trade
Internally based
Mostly agriculture
Large marketplaces
- improved technology
- dependent
- Europe sucks natural
resources/profits
- monoculture
Social
Class/Gender
-
priests rules
hierarchal
patriarchal (though women
appreciated)
Cortes – trading
Encomiendas
Haciendas
Trade of crops
Brought beasts of burden 
improved agriculture
- more hierarchal (by race)
- depreciation of women (European
influence)
- Continued hierarchy
- New castes created (creoles,
mestizos )
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Society opens up
More egalitarian
Some meritocracy
Existing racism
Science/Invention
s
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Calendar
No wheels
Road system
Chinampas
- medical advances (longer life
span)
- Wheel brought in (levers, pulleys)
- Brought in writing system (for
Incan empire)
- primitive anesthesia
- tools for probing, incision,
organ extraction
- blood letting
- transfer of European
inventions/influenced
-
innovation continued
beginning industrialization
extracting natural resources
science/inventions gotten
through trade
Art/Architecture
-
Ziggurats
Religion-based
- Western/religion (Christian based) art
- Mix of original Spanish and Western art
Empire
-
Aztecs
Incas
Mayans
Toltecs, etc.
- decimated (guns, germs, steel)
- Iberian rule
- Spanish/Portuguese empire
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1949)
- Portuguese King moves to
Brazil
- Some French influence
Religion
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Animism
Polytheism
Worship of nature, etc.
-
- Christianity heavily encouraged
Politics
-
600 – 1450
CE
-
West considered Gods
Lose belief in previous Gods
West brought Christianity
Influenced (little syncretism:
superstitions created)
- Decolonization
- Majority rules
- Series of juntas/dictatorships
-
Europe cannot maintain
Monoculture
Difficulty industrializing
Heavily dependent on natural
resources (Venezuela)
- Combination of European,
indigenous, and Christian arts.
- split into many countries
- General Boliva: legacy of anti
American, influenced many
countries
- No strong institutions due to
dependency
- Atheism agnostics increased
- Legacy of Catholicism
- Society more free to choose
religion
Regional Outline for Mediterranean
8000 – 600 CE
Politics
Economy
Social
Class/Gender
Science/Inventions
Art/Architecture
Empire
Religion
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
- Persian Empire: governors
and law code
- Greece: city states (Athenian
democracy)
- Roman Republic (510 - 23
BCE): Senate/Assembly
-Roman Empire (23 BCE – 576
CE): bureaucrats
Trade – among Med (1st
controlled by Phoenicians/
Greeks), and also with Africa
(Trans-Saharan) and Silk
Roads (connected to China)
-necessary b/c large scale
agriculture impossible
Classes:
- citizens (adult males)
- free people (no pol rights)
- noncitizens, slaves
or patricians, plebians, slaves
Women: inferior (marry in
teens) but role in religion
Medicine
Astronomy (Ptolemy)
Engineering (Roman roads,
aqueducts)
Philosophy
*slavery – applied sci behind
Byzantine: absolute authority
Secular rulers
Justianian Code
600 – 1450 CE
Spain: Ferdinand + Isabella
(Christian North + Muslim
South) = nation state
East Byzantine: trade
- at crossroads
- commercial, cultural
connections
- Byzantines not dominant
- Iberian wave of exploration
-start off strong, later replaced
by more W. Europe
- Got lots of wealth, but spent
just as quickly
- N. Italian city-states rich
- Women: Overall Europe some
awareness of injustices
- limited opportunities
- Unification of Italy – Victor
Emmanuel (1870) (helped by
Revolution of 1848) - Italy
before (mid 1800s): foreign
controlled small kingdoms
– power of nationalism
- Iberian colonies freeing selves
- Italy: Triple Alliance
- N. Italy industrializes
- Portuguese coastal settlements
(esp. India), and quite harsh
w/ African colonies
- Italy – not really colonizing
(humiliating loss to Ethiopia)
WWI - Conflict in Balkans
Italy changes sides for alliances
– want N territories controlled
by Austria (later got some,
but not all they wanted)
Interwar – Fascist Italy,
Mussolini – aggression
* no absolutes!
Interwar period – global econ
crisis
Fascists want to protect
enterprise
Economic Globalization – Italy
in G-8
Women: some movement to
equality (esp. industrialization)
- also w/ indus.: changes in
classes (rise of middle)
Fascists (unlike Communists)
don’t want to eliminate
private property, class
distinctions
Women: roles changed during
war - suffrage
Printing press – Gutenberg
(1436): increased impact of
new ideas
1252: Gunpowder to Europe
-Muslims in Spain maintained
Greek/Roman learning
- (Muslims) Preserved past –
added to math and science
- Navigational tech
- Scientific Revolution
Many associated w/ Industrial
Revolution
Mussolini – attempts to
modernize Italy (brought
medicine/tech to backward
parts)
Classical – pillars, arches
- realistic human statues
- literature (Homer)
Rome borrowed from G
-Greek Orthodox Church:
Blend of Greek & Roman
elements
Domes
Icons
Cathedrals – Romanesque,
Gothic
- Exploration/colonization
ensured spread of culture
- Renaissance (esp. Italy) Humanism
Artists experimented with new
styles
New literary trends
(Romanticism, realism)
Media used for propaganda
(e.g. for war) – Advertisements
More new styles (cubism)
Alexander the Great
Collapse of Roman
-split into east and west
- internal/external factors
East Roman  Byzantine
(Justianian reconquest of N.
Africa, Italy, Spain coast)
Originally polytheistic
- Constantine: Edict of Milan
(313 CE) legal status to
Christianity
- Byzantine
- 800 CE Holy Roman Empire
starts in West
- Greece/Rome essentially
forgotten
- Weakening of Byzantine
Byzantine = Greek Orthodox
Church
West = Roman Catholic Church
(1054 Great Schism)
Spain –ties w/ Catholic church
Spanish Inquisition for heretics
Protestant Reformation/
Catholic Reformation
Splitting into different
countries (e.g. new nation
of Italy)
Greece, Egypt launch
independence movements
Eastern Question – decline of
Ottoman
Mostly continuities – e.g.
Scientific Rev. challenged
aspects of Roman Catholicism,
but people learned to be both
Spanish Civil War (training
ground for new weapons) –
not so directly involved in
WW
No longer a unifying empire,
but separate countries
– hard to make generalizations
Now most of the area = Roman
Catholic, but some Eastern
Churches (Orthodox, etc), some
Sunni Muslim
Serfdom
Women: domestic participate in
trade/craft
Regional Outline for Middle East
8000 – 600 CE
Politics
Economy
Social
Class/Gender
Science/Inventions
Art/Architecture
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
-city-state
- controlled city and
surrounding area
Caliphs
-political unrest
-succession
-problem
Islam-Theocratic Rulerscodified Islamic law
Sultan
-Provincial gov’t
-centralized power
-Ottoman decline
-centralized, but
-not around economy
-Turkish state
-Sultan kicked out
Ataturk- father of the Turks
Trade
-great traders
-agricultural
Participated in trade
-Trans Sahara Trade
-Silk Road/Route
-Indian Ocean Trade
-Initially dominated trade
(beginning)
-Indian Ocean, African Coast
-Trade still go on
-no longer dominant
traders/master traders
WWI- join central power (lost)
-“Attempted” Industrialization
-Iran, Iraq- Oil supply (econ
based)
-Men work (more freedom)
-Women confined to home
-Slavery (owned slaves)
-from E.Africa
Education- more opportunities
Women- married at puberty
- equal before Allah
Women
-stayed same, had some
property rights
-not really property of men
-hardly any rights
-devalued
Women
-Even with pressure from West.
Stayed same
-negative effect, treatments
-still had to wear the clothes to
cover the whole body
-Independent innovations
-4000BCE Bronze, Copper
-Wheel, irrigation canals
-number system (from India,
improved)
-Navigation tools
Mathematics
-Algebra, Geometry…etc
Science -Objective experiment
-classification
-navigation: astrolabe
improved
-Medicine
-Calligraphy, designs
-Minarets
-Mosques
-Literature
-Poetic works: Arabian
Nights”
Harems established
-female slaves, women had
some rights
Social Class: 1)Sultan 2)Gov’t
Officials 3)Reg Officials
4)General people (peasants,
Merchants..)
Military Tech
-canons, guns
-advanced medically
-Medicines
-Science- navigation tools,
atstronomy
-Affected by western science
-overtaken (no longer
dominant
-stayed isolated
-Fall of USSR
-start accepting west influence
-Mosques
-Minarets
-Mosaics
Arts
-still had Mosques
-Minarets
-Mosaics
-styles still there, but
-due to decline of empire,
corruption, little time for art
“Sick man of Europe”
-decline of Ottoman Empire
-Balkans
-seeking independence
Arts
-still have, but not much
developments
improvements
Islam
-still the unifying force
-tensions between Sunni vs.
Shi’a still occur
-still tolerant of other religions
to some extent
Islam
-more focused on religion
-tried to become like before
Architecture
-Ziggurats
-glory of civilization
Empire
Regional Kingdom
-Babylonians
-Acadians…etc
-Islamic
-regular civil wars
-1258 Mongols overran
Islamic empire
Ottoman Empire
-“Gunpowder Empire”
-Safavid Persia
Religion
-Polytheistic
-Animistic
-Many gods
Islam
-Suffi’s
-respect for Jews/Christians
-People of the book
Islam
-divided
-Sunni vs. Shi’a
Young Turks
-Secularization, sceiences
technology
-Iran vs Iraq
-Turkey formed
Regional Outline for ___United States___________
8000 -1450 CE
Politics
Economy
Social
Class/Gender
-depending on regions (tribal societies)
-different region had different way of controlling their people
-no central authority
-pastoral/hunter gather societies- tribes
- agriculture- have lots of great farmers, producing their regional
crops
-class determined by age (the oldest receive more respect and
power)
-people who owed a lot of horses, equipments, crops, families
-matrilineal societies
Science/Inventions
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
-democrats imposed on citizens
-men- allowed to vote, no
suffrage rule yet
-John Locke- social contract
inspired
-“self-determination”
1776- Declaration of
Independence
-1787- Constitution (three
branches or checks and
balance)
-democracy- unbalanced among
genders for suffrage
remained democracy
1965- all women can
vote
-richest nation with
huge power
sphere of influences
Columbian Exchange- new
food source, animals, resources
transferred between Europe and
Americas
African Slave Trade- benefits
US for its cheap labor
-involved in trades
-WW1- war creditors
-one of the top 5 trading empire
-benefit through colonization,
exploited natural resources
WW2- rose to dominate world
due to other countries were
destroyed in the war
-highly industrialized
-earned a lot of profit with
imports/exports
Women- inferior to men
-Enlightenment ideas-push for
freedoms/rights of women
-peasants, wealthy, nobility
Women’s reform- 1830s for
family, divorce law
Women’s sphere
Moving toward suffrage
Class determined by races
Huge middle class groups
-patriarchal societies
-women have more job
opportunity in the modern
period
-suffrage- given 1965
-class determined by wealth
borrowed a lot from the
Chinese, Arabs and Islamic
world
1800s- textile factory system
brought from Europe
Technological innovationspurred industrialization
-more advance navy, militarily
equipments, creators and
producers of luxury products
Borrowed ideas from various
empires/countries such as
Indian, Europeans, China etc…
influenced by European/ Asian
architectureRenaissance/Indian building
styles
still borrowed ideas from
Europe artists/architects
fragmented regions, no central
authority to rule and combine
all areas together yet
Monroe Doctrine 1823
-used British navy
Spanish American Empire
-controlled Philippine, Guar,
Puerto Rico
Christianity
Christianity dominated,
some still polytheists, animists,
or secular
Still a big empire
distributed products
to earn
influenced on other
nations to invest in
US
powerful
Christianity remained strong,
some minority – remained their
own traditional religions
-develop own farming equipments
Art/Architecture
- depending on regions
- teepee, thatch roof house, huts etc…
Empire
No empire- series of tribe societies
Religion
-most were animist
-some don’t believe in god at all
Regional Outline for the United States of America
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
Exploration/Colonization by
mostly northern European
nations (France, England,
Dutch)
-English colonial politics
based on strong local
government
Incorporation into global
trading network Beginning
of Columbian Exchange
(African slaves to southern
plantation, etc)
Emergence of England as
preeminent colonial
powerAmerican
Revolution = 1776
(Confederation more
centralized presidential
democracy) Civil War
1800s = Initial
industrialization of textile
full fledged industrialization
-Tech spurred improvement
of infra
Cold War (world =
ideological battlefield b/w
USSR and US) ‘Police
officer/Peace negotiator of
the world’
Patriarchal
Now, based on European
social system: patriarchal
Racism among peoples,
particularly toward African
Americans
-Industrialization =
women’s rights slowly ^
Acceleration of women’s
rights (suffrage, divorce,
economic rights,
Feminism) Greater civil
liberties (Civil Rights Movt)
For the most part, behind the
rest of the world (Cause:
geographical location =
independent invention)
Still behind for the same
reasons (Some astrological
technology diffused from
Mesoamerica)
Huge one-way technological
diffusion to Native
Americans from Europeans
Tech spurred improvement
in infrastructure (rail)
-Industrialization = new
technology
Various tech that improved
econ; Military weaponry
Physics (A-bomb)
(Einstein), Rocketry (Space
race), Computer (Internet
Architecture: Crude, natural
materials for basic shelter
Art: If any, probably based
on nature
Moundbuilders of North
America (current day
Mississippi area)
European based art
(paintings, engravings) and
architecture
American regionalism,
expressionalism (Hopper,
Rockwell), and
abstractionism (O’Keefe,
Dove, Burchefield)
Architecture = steel 
larger building
Art New, independent
form of American writing,
movies, art, etc
Empire
N/A
N/A
European colonial empires
(biggest = New England)
Religion
Most likely, animism
Animism
New religion/ religious
fervor (Pilgrims) /
conversion (missionaries)
Expansionist domestic
policy (expansion into
West);Isolationist foreign
policy(Hesitant to enter
WWI)Spanish Am.
War=the US Empire
(Monroe Doctrine)
Christianity = prominent
religion Introduction of
new religions/beliefs by
immigrants (Judaism)
WWIWWII (expansion
b/c of conflict w/
Axis)Cold War (world =
ideological battlefield b/w
USSR and US) ‘Police
officer/Peace negotiator of
the world’
Christianity still dominant
Spread of other religions by
immigrants
Decentralized tribes and
villages led of chiefs
Decentralized tribes and
villages led of chiefs
Highly localized agriculture
Even though less so
economy is still rather
localized agriculture
(Most likely) Patriarchal
Science/Inventions
Art/Architecture
Politics
Economy
Social
Class/Gender
1914 - Present
Interwar Period = Great
Depression
(protectionism)Rebuilding
after WWIIEconomic
globalization
Thematic Outlines
Demographic Shifts
Consider the Following: Disease, immigration – push/pull factors, attractive regions, infant mortality rates, life expectancy, diet, colonization, scientific advancements, war, forced
servitude, urbanization
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
East Asia
1. Shang dynasty = Hwang He
– infanticide.
2. Zhou Dynasty = feudal
system.
3. Qin: iron weapons
4. Han = paper, sundials, oxplow.
5. Han Collapse: internal
8000 – 600 CE
1. Trade spread disease, black
plague.
2. Mongols facilitated trade.
3. Vietnam = Champa Rice.
4. Japan = isolated, 4 main
islands.
5. Mongol tech: siege weapons
= catapults, exploding balls.
6. Ming = extensive agriculture.
7. Tang/Song: junks,
gunpowder, flying $, magnetic
compass, sternpost rudders.
1. Asia to Euro = yellow fever,
malaria, small pox.
2. Malaysia + Indo + Sing =
colonized.
3. Ming = brief exploration, but
pull back = isolated.
4. Qing/Manchu Dynasty
5. Tokugawa Japan = united
Japan, pop growth, rain grain
production increase, urbanized,
quality weapons.
6. Pop growth in China
1. China = sweet potato.
2. Japan = improve in nutrition,
medical care, strain in natural
resources, industrialize, fewer
people working in agriculture,
national infrastructure.
3. China = opium trade.
Western Europe
1. Mediterranean
2. Greece = city-states, have
slaves, Persian War,
Peloponnesian War.
3. Roman Republic: geography:
protected from northern
invasion by land (Alps),
conflict: Punic Wars – defeat in
3rd one open Medit to Rome.
1. Growth of cities = pop
increases.
2. Specialization of labor.
3. Dark Ages.
4. Feudalism – serfs = similar
to slaves.
5. Few tech advances.
6. Vikings = raided Europe.
1. Syphilis
2. Growth of urban pop.
3. China + Japan colonized.
4. Exploration, colonization,
imperialism.
5. Port: colonize Goa, Malacca,
Sri Lanka.
6. Spain = Columbus.
7. English fight wars with
Spain for territory.
8. France = colonized India.
9. Dutch = Indonesia, Africa
Cape Colony.
10. Extract natural resources.
11. Colonize Americas.
12. Spanish + Port = bring in
African Slaves to Americas.
13. Renaissance, Protestant
Reformation, Scientific Rev,
enlightenment.
Eastern Europe
4. Roman Empire: initially
empire expands, large
landowners use slaves, cities
overcrowded = displaced small
farms.
5. Reliance on slavery = tech
fall behind.
6. Science: Pythagoras,
Hippocrates: Father of
1. Byzantine
2. Coined $.
3. Between medit and Black
Seas.
4. Rise of towns, enclosure of
open fields.
1.Trade with nomads of Central
Asia.
2. Cossacks: recruited peasants.
3. Russia = isolated from West,
pushed eastward.
4. Not part of Renaissance.
5. Catherine the Great =
enforced serfdom.
1. Industrialization.
2. Famine = Ireland.
3. Push = poverty.
4. Urbanization.
5. Live expectancy rose –
improve medicine, Louis
Pastuer Germ theory.
6. Diet improve.
7. Cholera + TB.
8. Tenements = bad living
conditions.
9. Major pollution.
10. Increase in pop = more
food.
11. Enclosure movement =
common area gone.
12. New sources of energy =
steam, petroleum.
13. New materials = steel.
14. Interchangeable parts.
15. Steam locomotive.
16. Birth of middle class.
1. Emancipation of serfs = but
still have to work on land to
pay off, so not really free.
2. Not industrializing.
3. Not borrowing from West
Euro = fairly isolated.
1. Korea = highest population
density.
2. Jap = address pop increase
through birth control &
abortion.
3. Asia industrializes &
mechanizes.
4. Nagasaki & Hiroshima =
bombed.
5. Firebombings of Japanese
cities.
6. Comfort women in Korea &
SEA.
7. Mao = kill many people.
8. Great Leap Forward =
collectivization.
1. Spanish Flu = Global
epidemic.
2. Guest workers = labor
shortages, seek workers from
outside = low wages &
discrimination.
3. WWII = total war, civilians
as targets.
4. Blitzkrieg.
5. Poverty, shortage of food,
clothing.
6. Holocaust.
7. Welfare systems, econ
prosperity, scientific +tech =
advance.
8. Emphasize consumerism.
1. Refugees = displaced during
WWII.
2. Pull: Economy + politics =
repressive.
3. WWI = destruction of
eastern Euro empires.
4. Communism.
5. Political instability.
6. Russia lost Latvia, Lithuania,
medicine.
7. Movement of
Huns+Germans – Great Age of
Migrations.
8. Huns to Mongolia.
9. Germans = along Roman
frontier.
10. Germanic peoples = defeat
Rome.
11. Rome Collapse = internal +
external.
South Asia
Latin America
Middle East
Africa
Estonia, Poland.
1. India: millet & barley.
2. Indus Civ.
3. India tech: pi, zero, Arabic #
system.
4. Aryan Invaders = base class
on race.
5. Hinduism = caste system.
6. Indus Collapse: external.
1. Maize, beans, squash.
2. Mesoamerica + Andean
South America = slavery.
1. Aztecs = tribute empire =
sacrifice people.
2. Maya, Aztecs, Incas =
agricultural societies, peasants
+ slaves.
3. Maya: Pyramids, cotton +
maize, ridged field system.
4. Aztec: Pyramids,
Chinampas, maize & beans,
large urban capital.
5. Inca: communication through
roads, terrace farming, animal
husbandry.
1. Mesopotamia
1. Arabs = captured slaves &
force into bondage.
2. Trade with Africa – Swahili
Coast.
1. East Africa = 1st to migrate =
search for food. 2. Green
Sahara = dries up, seeds to
forests.
3. Plantains, beans, squash.
4. Egypt = Nile River.
1. Bantu Migration – change
pop from hunter-gatherer to
agricultural based.
2. Farming + pastoralism,
follow Congo river, spread
knowledge of iron-working.
1. Mughal India = Gunpowder
Empire = use weapons to
maintain regional power.
2. Conflict between Hindus &
Muslims.
3. Decline of power =
vulnerable to outside influence.
4. Brit East India Company.
1. India = learn western value.
2. Colonized.
3. India: Brits = build roads &
canals, urbanization increased.
4. Paving path toward
independence = Indian National
Congress.
1. India & Pakistan = split =
1000’s pep displaced.
2. Arab-Israeli War = hundreds
of thousands of Palestinians.
3. India Green Movement.
4. Migration from South Asia
to Arab oil-producing nations.
1. Measles.
2. Monoculture.
3. Domestication of animals.
4. Exploitation of natural
resources.
5. Columbian exchange.
6. Pop increase.
7. Horses = new method of
labor.
8. Encomienda system = Am
Feudalism.
9. Food: squash, beans, corn,
potatoes, cacao = population
growth.
10. Euro disease kill Ams.
11. Huge Estates = Haciendas.
1. Abbasid Caliphate = lose
power.
2. Gunpowder empires:
ottoman, safavid.
3. Influence Ren in Euro = go
back to ideas of Greek and
Romans.
1. Colonized = used as slaves.
2. Monoculture = destroy land.
3. Boundary = total disregard
for societies that existed before.
1. Massive Urbanization.
2. Bad living + working
conditions.
3. Import Substitution.
4. Immigration w/in and to US
– legal & illegal.
5. Pep live in shantytowns.
6. Settlements incorporated into
city.
7. Migration for employment.
8. Urbanized peasants = no
access to industry.
1. Ottoman Empire = Middle
Eastern Question.
2. Want to keep stable or else
will be chaos.
3. Balkan Crisis.
4. Egypt + North Africa taken
from Ottoman Empire.
1. Atlantic slave trade = slaves
taken from Africa = deplete
population.
2. Triangular Slave Trade –
slaves from Af in Middle
Passage = many died, Euro give
guns to Af.
1. Islamic states of West Africa
= keeps slaves.
2. End of Atlantic Slave Trade,
but 2 mill still traded.
3. Loss of pop from trade.
4. Intro of guns = increase
likelihood of inter-tribal war.
1. Forced migration due to
Peace of Paris – Turks to
Turkey.
2. Pop increase.
3. Ethnic divisions.
4. Military coups.
5. Pop explosion.
6. Poverty.
7. Lack of fresh water.
1. Legacies of colonization.
2. Civil wars between ethnic
groups.
3. Population explosion.
4. Low per capita income.
5. Lack on capital for
infrastructure.
Major
Themes/Turning
Points
Applies to all:
1. Ice Age = big game gone &
usable land.
2. Alter skin color & Race type
3. Environ = more suitable for
growing crops so settle down.
4. Diet better
5. 3 classical emps: pep live
closely now & settle next to
rivers.
6. Milder conditions, warmer
temps, higher ocean levels.
7. Foraging vs. Pastoral
societies
8. Foraging = disease, famine,
natural disasters, no permanent
shelters, limit on how much
land can feed
9. Pastoral: domesticate
animals, mountain regions,
insufficient rainfall, small scale
agri.
10. Migratory vs. slash
and burn.
11. Irrigation
12. Fermentation of alcoholic
beverages.
13. Create cities
14. Land = reconfigured to fit
needs of humans – divert water,
clear land for farming, roads
built, build monuments.
15. Religious diffusion.
1. Atlantic Slave Trade.
2. Crusades = huge migration
of people.
3. Urban growth.
3. Euro & Africa in Columbian
exchange= horses, pigs, goats,
chili peppers, sugar cane.
4. Africans = separated from
families.
5. Sierra Leone + Liberia = safe
haven for slaves.
6. Cotton gin = need more
slaves to work.
7. Scramble for Africa.
6. Urbanization.
7. Huge debtloads.
1. Rise of nation states = rivalry
between nations for territory.
2. World Trade.
3. Columbian exchange –
disease = unintended part =
bubonic plague.
4. Growth of urban population
== famine, enclosure
movements.
1. Industrialization.
2. End of Atlantic Slave trade.
3. Colonization.
4. Asians + Africans = provide
labor.
5. New Birth rate patterns in
Western Euro.
6. Raw materials = depleting.
7. Increased pollution.
1. Immigration.
2. Threat to environment =
deforestation.
3. Global warming.
4. Warfare: WWI WWII –
people=homeless, chemical
warfare.
5. Terrorism.
6. NGOs – Green Peace &
WWF.
7. Communication revolution =
world closer together.
8. Dictatorial regimes = killed
many people.
9. Separation of ethnic groups.
10. Cold War: World = divided
between US & USSR.
11. Globalization: relocation to
new cities/countries, find
cheapest labor, lower wages,
sudden unemployment.
12. Xenaphobia.
Thematic Outline for Gender Relations
Consider the Following: Inheritance, Infanticide, Rituals, Divorce, Marriage (Age), Suffrage, Leadership, Profession, Education, Religion (missionaries, deities, authority), Sexuality
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
East Asia
China- patriarchal society,
emperor can have more than
1 wife.
Matrilineal before Shang
Dynasty.
Women able to gain
prestigious jobs, although
remain inferior to men. Can
Divorce and marry again.
Expected to provide sons.
Rome-Pater FamiliasCentered around eldest
Male. Women have
influence on family:
supervising family business
Greece-Patricians,
Plebeians, Slaves-had say in
religious rituals, married
early and virgin till marriage
NO INFORMATION
Japan- women live with
increased restrictions on
daily lives, obey husband or
face death.
Women educated at home.
Known as Warring Period
Queen mothers ran royal
house, kept relations with
foreign nations and
controlled marriage alliance.
Exploration & colonization
ensures spread of
Spanish/Portuguese
language, culture,
Catholicism
Russia- nobles adopt
Western European culture
thru language (some spoke
French) and dressing style,
but ordinary peoples remain
the same.
Mughal outlaw Sati,
encourage widows to
remarry, Hindu-Muslim try
for better relations.
Women=Aristocrats, able to
supply income (all castes)
Changes brought by
Europeans, Coloumbian
Exchange, slavery
encouraged, European
disease diminish Aztec and
Incan culture and peoples.
Harems-complex social
network, originally nonIslamic slaves/prisoners,
mothers had influence if son
represented in court-became
members of sultan’s
extended family
Women have little freedom,
society corrupted because of
Opium Trade leads to war
with British Empire in
Canton, Macau
Western Europe
China- Had growing number
of infanticide if child was
female. Males regarded as
lucky-Primo Geniture.
Wives and young girls had
foot binding.
Patriarchal society but
women could get power if
were upper class aristocrats
or monarchs/member of
royal family.
Industrial Revolution- Poor
women who had taken care
of home/worked in fields
shifted to
factories/sweatshops. More
and more children working
now, people moving to
cities, immigrants o US,
Australia
Emancipation of Serfs in
1861 brings massive
changes; Russia modernizes,
but changed precedent of
tsars because of unrest
among lower class.
British try to outlaw both
Sati and Caste System, still
both illegally continued.
Violence between Hindu
and Muslims also persist.
Boys + few girls educated
Social inequalities persist in
spite of laws against it,
People of mixed race,
Indians, blacks victims of
informal prejudice, slavery
continued into 19th Century
Merchants contribute to
expanding economy based
on trade with Europeans,
South Asians and East
Asians
Men and Women seem
almost equal-voting rights,
job interviews, and day-today rights. Can choose when
to get married and not
dependable on family to
make choices. Well
Educated- most prominent
place for women
Women still subordinate to
men; however, both are
required to work. Orthodox
Church doesn’t encourage
divorce. Both males and
females educated.
Still extremely patriarchal
but women can work + have
good jobs, expected to
provide sons. Not as
auspicious as male babies
Eastern Europe
South Asia
Women gained little rights
as “needed supervision”
from males
Patriarchal- Sati
Couldn’t own property
Latin America
No clear-cut indications;
however, most likely
patriarchal society based on
Latin American history.
Middle East
Men were hunters, women
were food gatherers. Ruled
by elite, rulers, priests, and
patriarchal society. Women
can gain power in courts,
priestesses, scribes, small
business
Women treated as inferior to
men, but could have say in
family life. Both men and
women work, mostly
agricultural style. Serfdom=
work for protection
Women remain subordinate
to men. Caste system
decides each person’s place
in society. Males educated if
Brahmin, women not
educated, worked at home.
Aztec/Inca ruled. Women
could become priestess or
work under the royal family.
Human Sacrifice common
for gods.
Women initially able to
conduct businesses and hold
certain jobs (Mohammad’s
Wife), Women don’t need to
veil themselves, divorce is
not tolerated
Rise of Feminism, more
than just legal equality and
right to vote (cultural and
economical), Cuban
government limits rights of
women: Communism
Laws still very religious
(Shari a) but some women
can have businesses, males
can have up to 4 wives if
they can provide substantial
lifestyle for each
Global Trade/Interactions
Consider the Following: Major players, dominant vs. dominated regions, how goods traded, technological innovations, what was traded (disease, ideology, religion, materials), role of
merchants, currency, routes, cultural exchange
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
1450-1750 CE
East Asia
China: silk cloth; roads
constructed; Han-Silk Road
trading increased; Iron Age;
modernized army (iron
weapons, etc.); paper,
accurate sun
dials/calendars, use of
metals, ox-drawn plow.
China controlled east trading
zone; traded: silk,
porcelain,& paper, military
tech, Buddhism, Islam,
Christianity; Japan traded:
silver; China refocused on
Indian Ocean trade in 15th
century; expeditions by
Zheng He; junks; Mongols;
Port of Canton;
China: many navigational
inventions[sternpost rudder,
lanteen sails, astrolabe,
magnetic compass]; relied
on regional trade; Japan:
prohibited foreign trade
Opium Trade;1st China
greatly benefits from trade;
China opens up to Europe;
Japan industrializes;
Japanese ports open up
(1854) b/c second Perry
expedition. Industrialization
Western Europe
Internal trade mostly; trade
&cultural diffusion by boat;
wine and olive products for
grain in Greece; barter
system replaced w/ money
system;Hellenism; roman
culture spread; rds.
connected to silk rd.
Crusades; Hanseatic
League: trade monopoly
established; begins to trade
with Islamic world;
Trade no longer land based
only; Hanseatic League;
European exploration and
colonization; new
navigational technology
utilized for voyages; British
East India Company; stole
info. From
Spanish/portuguese
European dominance of the
world; seized trading
networks from local/regional
control.
Eastern Europe
not much contact with the
outside world; traded very
little
Hanseatic League: trade
monopoly established;
Mongol Empires; crossroads
of Europe and Asia; didn’t
have much interest in
Western goods;
Exported grain to Europe for
western machinery; # 4 in
steel production;
Indian Ocean Trade;
Mauryans: promoted trade;
rds. connected w/ Silk Rd.;
Buddhist missionaries sent
out; Guptas: “Arabic” #
system, inoculation of
smallpox, sterilization during
surgery, astronomy.
Indian kingdoms controlled
Middle trading zone; ports in
India; trades: gems,
elephants, salt, cotton cloth
& cinnamon
Russia: forced to establish
agencies in Moscow/St.
Pete; traded primarily with
nomads of central asia;
Ottoman Empire: European
traders formed colonies with
Constantinople; dismissed
western tech and trade.
India encouraged to trade
with West but was more
preoccupied with imperial
expansion.
Didn’t trade much yet.
Lots of roads; didn’t really
trade.
South Asia
Latin America
Exploration of Portugal;
Spain headed WestColumbus’s voyage;
Reconquista delayed
Spanish exploration; Vasco
de Gama, Dias, Ferdinand
Magellan; haciendas formed;
1750 – 1914 CE
Exclusive trade over India
with British East India
Company; increase of
urbanization due to British
colonialism; roads and
canals built in; raw materials
exported to Britain, finished
materials imported back to
India;
LA trade increased
significantly; sugar, cotton,
cacao plantations, beef
exports-refrigerated boxcars;
used for natural resources.
1914 – Present
Japanese silk exports
reduce; rubber exports
damaged; China prospered
during Global trade;
Vietnam: leading rice
exporter; Japan supplied
food &raw materials, cars,
electronics, etc; Korea:
cheap textiles;, steel, cars;
Taiwan: textiles; Singapore:
4th largest port.
Surrenders export
dominance to US/Japan
(WWI); Common Market;
US: huge exports; creditor
nation; food, wheat, corn,
fast food; NAFTA;
advertising= diffusion of
products and culture;
development of economic
unions;
Still agricultural & exports to
W. Europe; COMECON;
industrialization; cut off from
world trade because refusal
to join “Bretton Woods
System”;
SW Asia joins in int’l drug
trade; cheap textiles; exports
clothing; became world’s
largest democracy
Great Depression kills export
economy; US=Cuba’s
leading trade partner ‘til
1959; Columbia: int’l drug
exchange; Brazil: exotic
woods; Mexico: oil;
Venezuela: member of
OPEC
Middle East
Great traders in
Mesopotamia; traded with
Egypt some; Silk Road
Trade; trans-Saharan trade;
adopted Sumerian beliefs;
Africa
East Africa linked to
Southern China through
Indian Ocean Trade; TransSaharan Trade: use of
camel/camel saddle;
exchange of salt and palm
oil; N. Africa supplied Rome
with olives, wheat, and wild
animals; Egyptian culture
spread.
Major
Themes/Turning
Points
Silk Road; Iron Age
Arabs dominated trade;
controlled western trading
zone; traded: textiles,
carpets, glass & Arabian
horses; Crusades; TransSaharan trade routes; Islam
spread; Mongols;
Trans-Saharan trade routes;
salt, gold, honey, slaves,
ivory (exports); copper,
horses, textiles, figs, iron
(imports);
Colonies formed here by
western Europe. Traded with
West but more interested in
expanding empire;
Trade with Islamic world
decreased; dependent on
European imports; discovery
of oil gains lots of money.
Oil; westernization; ASEAN
; joins int’l drug trade;
migration;
Internal Africa not explored,
Europeans too scared.
Trans-Atlantic slave trade
ended but slavery still
continued illegally; coastal
regions important for limited
trade: stopping points for
merchant ships; center for
slave trade; established
outposts, naval bases and
small colonies; diamond
deposits; exported cotton to
Britain;
After WWI no money to
purchase industrial goods,
S. African miners prosper
from gold mines; after WWII
rely on sales of cash
crops/minerals; Niger: oil
producer, member of OPEC;
exports native arts
Silk Road connected
everyone; east to west
(1200-1600); Crusades;
Mongols; Indian Ocean
trade; Trans-Saharan trade;
Marco Polo; Global Trade
Network; Rise of Islam
Silk Road connected
everyone; east to west
(1200-1600); Renaissance;
gunpowder; European
colonization and exploration;
Commercial Revolution;
Atlantic Slave Trade; ships
used for trade; Crusades
End of trans-Atlantic slave
trade; industrial revolution;
European dominance of
world; communication and
transportation revolution.
WWI & WWII; Great
Depression; globalization;
Religion
Consider the Following: Polytheism (pantheon) vs. monotheism, enumerated laws, relation to state (theocracy), gender roles, missionaries, major ideologies, schisms, syncretism,
economic interests, persecution of minority religions
8000 – 600 CE
600 – 1450 CE
East Asia
Ancestor worship (China,
Japan)
Spirits of nature (China)
Confucianism, Daoism,
Legalism.
women treated as subservient
(food binding)
Western Europe
Polytheism- many gods
Animism- believe in animals
Monotheism- single god
Christianity, Judaism
Eastern Europe
Animism
Christianity- monotheism
Judaism- monotheism
Some influence of Islam – due
to Mongol influence
Christianity (Tsar)
Orthodox Christianity
Animism
Spirits of nature
Caste system- through
Hinduism
Codified laws
Ashoka-Buddhism, classicalreligion flourished
Subverted caste systemBrahmans angry
Latin America
Animism
Polytheism
Native American religious
Sun god- sacrifice
Losers of the battle sacrificed
to the Gods.
Middle East
Polytheistic
Greater women’s right
(Muhammad’s wife higher)
Islam- submission
Acceptance of people of the
book
(Christianity, Judaism)
Allow converts (Malawi)
Ulama- fundamentalist
Sharia- Islamic laws, veiling
South Asia
1450-1750 CE
1750 – 1914 CE
1914 - Present
Neo-Confucianism
Daoism, Confucianism,
Legalism= philosophies/semi
religion
Ancestor worship

Leaders- Mandate of Heaven
Foot binding less due to silk
road
Christianity spread- Crusades
Theocratic
Church powerful economic
entity(no tax)
Influence of BuddhismSamurais detachment from
pain.

Neo Confucianism
Religion through trade.
Women increased restrictions,
lower class better
Christianity Japan
Agnostics- believe in god but
no religion.
Global
State sponsored religionShintoism 
Both open up
Atheism- no god in China
Shintoism, sects of Buddhism,
and some belief of
Confucianism (a combination
of all)
Reformation- split in church
Protestant, Catholic
Enlightenment
Scientific revolution- less
religious, secular
Inquisition-kill heretics
Christianity
Influx of Muslim
Freedom of religion
Orthodox Christianity Tsar
supported by Church
Ortho- right correct doxthinking, Third Rome
Women- dressed like Western

Gupta-caste system, Hinduism
Classical-religion flourished
Islam-major force
Out law sati, female aristocrats
Persecute Judaism- (later Nazi)

Increasing beliefs in deism and
Atheism – due to
Enlightenment and affects of
Bubonic Plague
Protestant (counterreformation)
Strong revival in Roman
Catholicism (counterreformation)
Continued strong belief in
Orthodox Christianity
Persecute Jews- pogroms
Islam continues to grow
British colonization affects
religion, Christianity
1917-1991- Atheism
Christian revival
More freedom in religions
Still strong belief in Orthodox
Christianity
Existing influence of Islam
Second largest Muslim nation
Hinduism main
India split, Pakistan and India
Missionary dominant force to
conversion
African belief systems (due to
slave trade) Christianitydominant
Christianity dominant
Less of traditional gods.
Restricted religion
Christianity- limited role
(however, strong legacy of
Christianity behind)
Conservative movements
Gunpowder nations - Ottoman
Empire- tolerant of nonMuslims.
Govern variety – Orthodox,
Nestorian, Coptic, Catholic,
Protestant , Sunnis, Shiites
Harems
Ottoman Empire
Islam
Secularized- scientific
knowledge instead of clergy
complaints
Tanzimat reforms- religious
tolerance, schools for women
Persecution of Jews
Majority Islam – Sunnis vs.
Shiites
Major
Themes/Turning
Points
Nation-states- need for
organized religion
Something to hold them
together.
Islam- Arabs held by religion
Spanish-Christianity
Mohammed
Spread of trade
Persian Ulama- conservative
back lash
Spread of trade (Mongol, silk
road)
Schism- great split Orthodox
and Catholic
Reformation-protestant and
Catholic
Against catholic abuseintellectual movements
Atlantic trade
Colonization
Missionaries
Secular
Industrialization
More trade
Globalization
Flat world
Technology- internet
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