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