Time Periods & Civilizations
A Journey Through Time
Nomadic
Hunted Animals
Lived in Caves
No Writing
Gathered Food
Stone Tools
No Organized Government
Paleolithic
“Old Stone Age”
Permanent Settlements
Herding Animals
Surplus for Trade
Farming
Domestication of Plants & Animals
Writing
Job Specialization Religion
Laws
Organized Government
Neolithic
“New Stone Age”
Pyramids
Nile River
Tutankhamun
Polytheism
Hieroglyphics
Pharaohs
Monumental Building
Ancient Egypt
Sumerian Civilization
Babylonians
Euphrates River Tigris River
Polytheism
Hammurabi Code of Laws
Cuneiform Writing
Ziggurat
Mesopotamia
“The Fertile
Crescent”
Harappa
Concept of Zero
Moenjo-Dara
Sewer System
City Planning – Grid System
Ancient India
Indus
River Valley
Civilization
Yellow River
Shi Huangdi
Gunpowder
Compass
Chin Dynasty
Sun Tzu – “The Art of War”
Zhou Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Ancient China
Expert Horsemen
Conquered
Eastern Europe
Mongol
Empire
Conquered China
Genghis Kahn
Pax Mongolia
City-States
Athens & Sparta
Dual Monarchy
Democracy
Alexander the Great
Philosophy
Plato & Aristotle
Socrates
Ancient Greece
The Arch
Twelve Tables
Coliseum
Roads
Republic
Augustus
Julius Caesar
Dictator
Ancient Rome
Dark &
Middle
Ages
Feudalism
Magna Carta
Manorialism
Crusades
Roman Catholic
Church Powerful
Knights
Cathedral Building
Low Education Rates
Renaissance
Scientific Revolution
Humanism
Rebirth of
Roman & Greek Culture
Protestant
“The Prince” Machiavelli Reformation
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Gallileo
Newton
Laws of Gravity
Heliocentric Model
Scientific Method
Copernicus
Scientific
Revolution
Martin Luther
95 Theses
Indulgences
Royal Power Grows
Roman Catholic Church Power Declines
Protestant
Reformation
Aztec Civilization ends
Columbus
Mayan Civilization ends
Columbian Exchange
Cortes
Magellan Inca Civilization ends
Age of
Exploration
The Age of Absolutism
Theory of Divine Right
Louis XIV
Catherine the Great
Henry VIII
Peter the Great
Maria Theresa
Versailles
The Enlightenment
John Locke
Natural Rights
Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
The Social Contract
“Two Treatises of Government”
Consent of the Governed
The French Revolution
Louis XVI (16th)
Storming of the Bastille
Tennis Court Oath
The Directory
Robespierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
3rd Estate
Nationalism
Unification Germany 1871
Unification Italy 1861
Fascism
Mussolini – Italy 1920s
Pride & Devotion
Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Break up of Austria-Hungary Empire
Imperialism
Natural Resources
“The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”
Scramble for Africa
Opium Wars
Japan’s Ports Opened
Industrial Revolution
Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)
Victorian Age
Social Darwinism
Queen Victoria / Great Britain
Survival of the Fittest
Herbert Spencer
The Great Stink – London 1858
Eugenics
Frankenstein, Dracula, Oliver Twist
Imperialism
Alliances
World War 1
Militarism
Nationalism
The Spark – Assassination Archduke Ferdinand
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Russian Revolution
Czar Nicholas II
Lenin
End of Monarchy in Russia
Bolsheviks
Marxism / Communism
Soviet Union
Totalitarianism
Great Depression
Roaring 20s
Inter-War Years
Stock Market Crash 1929
Speakeasy
Economic Boom
End of Treaty of Versailles
Rise of Hitler - Germany
World War 2
Adolf Hitler
Axis Powers
Mussolini
Hiroshima
Winston
Churchill
Germany
Invades Poland 1939
Holocaust
Holocaust
The Final Solution
6 Millions
Jews Killed
Genocide
Adolf Hitler
S.S. / Einsatzgruppen
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
5 Million (Gypsies, Communists,
Homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah Witness) Killed
Cultural Revolution
People’s Republic of China
Chairman Mao
Little Red Book
Industrialization
Modernize China
Red Guard Terror
Chinese Culture Supressed
The Cold War
Vietnam War
Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev vs. Kennedy
Gorbachev vs. Reagan
Berlin Wall
Threat of Nuclear War
India & Pakistan
Post-World War II
Rwanda Independence Movements
Hutsi - Tutsi
Egypt
Apartheid Ends
North & South Korea
Break-Up of
Yugoslavia into the
Balkan States
Apartheid
South Africa
Equal Rights
Nelson Mandela
F.W. DeClerk
Legal Discrimination
U.N. Economic Sanctions
Minority Government
Human Rights Violations
Stalin – Soviet Union
Apartheid – South Africa
Rwanda Genocide - Africa
Hitler - Holocaust
Armenian Genocide - Turkey
Tiananmen Square - China
Bataan Death March – Japanese WWII