Name Five – Geographic
Foundations
600-1450
1450-1750
1750-1914
1. Exploration
2. Encounters /
exchanges
3. Empires
4. Enlightenment
1. Revolutions
(political)
2. Independence
3. Industry
4. Empires
5. Imperialism
1914-Present
Global
Agriculture
River Valley Societies
Class development
Development of world
religions
Writing systems
-Spread of world religions
-Silk Roads
-Indian Ocean trading
network
-Bubonic Plague
North America
-Land bridge migrations
-Olmecs/Toltecs
-Mayans
-Hunter/gatherers in
north
-Maize as staple crop
-Aztecs society
-Bloodletting
-Science/astronomy
-Rule based on tribute
-Columbian Exchange
-Triangular Trade
-European Empires in N.
America (Brit, French,
Spanish, Dutch)
-Fur trade
-Pop decline of natives
-7 Years War
-American Revolution
-US Civil War & westward
expansion
-British control of Canada
(Dominion status)
-Incan society
-polytheistic
-Road system
-Fall of Aztec/Incan
Empires (disease,
weapons, etc.)
-New Spanish/Port. Social
classes (peninsulares,
mestizos, mulattoes, etc)
-Haitian Revolution (slave)
-Mexican Rev’s (1st by
creoles, 2nd by peasants)
-Brazil Rev (bloodless)
-Simon Bolivar across S.
America
-2nd Mexican Revolution
(peasants, land reform)
-Great Depression in US
-PRI ruling party in
Mexico
-Middle Ages
-Feudalism
-Byzantine Empire
-Great Schism
-Crusades: open Europe
to tech/trade of East
-Renaissance
-Absolute Monarchs
(power from God)
-Protestant Reformation
-Scientific Revolution
-Enlightenment
-Est. of joint stock Co’s
-French Revolution
(Congress of Vienna)
-Industrial Rev. (Brits first)
-Nation-status &
nationalism
-Migrations
-Communism arrives
(Marx)
-Imperialism
-WWI, WWII, Cold War
South America / Latin -Agriculture
-Olmecs/Toltecs
America
-Mayan
Europe
-Greece/Roman Empire
-Greek philosophers
-Spread of Christianity
-Fall of W. Roman Empire
/ rise of Byzantine
-WWI, WWII, Cold War
-Nuclear Proliferation
-Globalization
-Epidemics (flu, AIDS,
malaria)
-Decolonization /
economic liberalization
Africa
-Nile River Valley
-Bantu migrations
-Alexandria, Egypt
-N. Africa ; spread of
Islam
-Trans Saharan Trade
Routes (gold, ivory,
slaves)
-Ghana, Mali, Songhay
-Mansa Musa
-Ibn Battuta
-Songhay Empire (W.
Africa)
-Kongo Empire (taken by
Portugal / convert to
Christianity / slaves)
-Trans Sah Trade Routes
-Slave trade / African
Diaspora
-European imperialism
(Belgian Congo, British
Cape to Cairo, French W.
Africa)
-Egypt splits from
Ottomans (Muhammad
Ali)
-Suez Canal built
-African involvement in
WWI and WWII
-Decolonization
movement (1960s – the
Decade of Africa)
-Kenyatta, Mandela
-Rwandan Genocide
-Sudan / Darfur
Name Five – Geographic (Cont.)
Foundations
Southwest Asia
-Mesopotamia
(Hammurabi esp.)
-Hebrews/Judaism
-Persian Empire
-Hellenistic Age
South Asia
(India)
-Dravidians
-Aryan migrations
-Harappans/ Indus Valley
-Hinduism develops
-Buddhism – rise and
spread
East Asia
(China & Japan)
-Yellow River Valley Civ.
-Xia-Shang-Zhou
-Period of Warring States
-Conf/Daoism/Legalism
-Qin/Han – restore
central. Authority
-Silk Roads / contact with
Rome
600-1450
1450-1750
1750-1914
-Islam: 5 Pillars,
Muhammad
-Abbasids and Umayyads
-Sunni/Shia split
-Spread of Islam
(conversion, conquest,
trade, Sufis)
-Sultanate of Delhi
-Indian Ocean trade
network
-“Islamification” of
Indian Ocean
-Gunpowder Empires
(Ottomans, Mughals,
Safavids) – Islam, great
military, expansion,
toleration
-Constantinople  Istanbul
-Suleyman (Ottomans)
-Mughal Empire (Akbar,
great leader)
-Religious toleration
-Coastal trade (Europeans)
-Shah Jahan  Taj Mahal
-Tang / Song Dyn.
-Gunpowder, porcelain,
compass, paper, printing
-Japanese feudalism
-Mongol Yuan Dyn. (rise
and fall)
-Ming revives Chinese
culture
-Ming Dynasty (promotion
of all things Chinese) – econ
problems from inflation
-Qing Dynasty (closes-off &
isolates China) – no foreign
-Tokugawa Shogun in Japan
(isolates Japan)
-Decline of Ottomans
(weak rulers, military
losses)
-Ottoman reforms (Muh.
Ali westernizes Egypt,
Tanzimat reforms)
-“Sick Man”
-Mughal India
-European (esp. British)
imperialism – cotton,
pepper, markets for sale
-“Jewel in the Crown”
-Sepoy Revolt – direct
British rule
-Qing Dyn. Isolates
-Opium War leads to
unequal treaties
-Spheres of influence
-China loses sovereignty
-Japan reform: Meiji
Restoration: Industry!!
1914-Present
-Break-up of Ottoman
Empire
-Turkey independence
(Kemal westernizes)
-Mandate system
-Israeli/Palestinian
conflict
-Indian independence –
1947: partition with
Pakistan
-Nehru’s 3rd Path
-Indira Gandhi and the
Green Revolution
-Chinese Civil War
(Communists v.
Nationalists) – Mao wins
-Mao’s 5 Year Plan, Great
Leap Forward, Cultural
Revolution
-Japan’s “economic
miracle” post WWII
Southeast Asia
(Vietnam, Cambodia,
Laos, Thailand)
-Spread of Hinduism and
Buddhism
-Vietnam conquered by
Han but independent
during Tang
-Distinct language,
culture
-Buddhism
-Dutch claim much of East
Indies
-British influence in Melaka
(Singapore)
-
-French colonize
Indochina
-British get Burma,
Malaya, Singapore
-Dutch in East Indies
North & Central Asia
(Russia & the “stans”)
-Huns
-Nomadic pastoralists
-Silk Roads
-Mongols (Yuan Dyn)
-Steppe nomads
-Russian serfdom
-Peter the Great &
“Westernization”
-St. Petersburg for warm
water port
-Russia loses Crimean
War (behind Europe)
-Alexander frees serfs
-Industrialization efforts
(Sergei Witte) – gov’t
led, Railroads, industry
-Russia loses RussoJapanese War
-Decolonization in
Indochina / war with
French
-Ho Chi Minh est.
Communism / fights
French/US
-Communism spreads –
Laos, Cambodia (Pol Pot)
-Soviet Communism
-Break-up of Soviet Union
– 1991
-Independence for “Stan”
countries
Name Five – Thematic
1. Human
Environmental
Interaction
-Demography
-Disease
-Migration
-Patterns of
Settlement
-Technology & Science
Foundations
600-1450
1450-1750
1750-1914
1. Bantu Migrations
2. Indo-European
migrations
3. River Valley societies
4. Iron / Bronze
metallurgy
5.
1. Maritime technology
(astrolabe, mag
compass, lateen sail)
2. Block printing (from
China)
3. Spread of Islam
(political, cultural,
military)
4. Bubonic Plague
5. Grand Canal in
Tang/Song China
1. Columbian Exchange
2. European diseases
decimate native
populations
3. European colonization
of New World
4. African Diaspora
-European migrations to
New World (Irish potato
famine)
-British to South Africa
-Chinese to new world
(labor migrations)
-Industrialization as
primary technological
advancement
1914-Present
2. Interaction of
Cultures
-Religions / Belief
Systems / Philosophies
-The arts / architecture
1. Polytheism (usually
assoc. with nature)
2. Development of 5
major world religions
(Hindu, Judaism,
Buddhism, Christianity,
Islam)
3. Confucianism /
Legalism / Daoism
4. Greek/Roman
architecture
1. Emergence of Islam
2. Sunni-Shia split of
Islam
3. Great Schism
(east/west split in
Christianity)
4. Renaissance in
Europe
5. Crusades
6. Marco Polo, Ibn
Battuta, Zheng He)
1. Renaissance in Europe
2. Reformation of
Christian Church
3. Scientific Revolution
4. Enlightenment
-French revolution /
Marxist movement both
have anti-religious core
-Imperialism in 1800s is
more economic than
religious
-Religious reforms in
Ottoman Empire (more
secular)
3. State-building,
expansion, conflict
-Political structures
-Empires
-Nations / Nationalism
-Revolts, Revolutions
-Regional,
transregional, global
structures &
organizations
1. Law Codes
(Hammurabi, Ten
Comm., Roman Law)
2. Persian Empire
3. Roman Empire
4. Qin/Han Dynasty
5. Monarchies /
autocratic rule
1. Holy Roman Empire
in Europe
2. European feudalism
3. Mongol Empire
4. Tang/Song China
5. Sultanate of Delhi
1. Gunpowder Empires
(Mughal, Ottoman,
Safavid)
2. Ming Dynasty
(exploration/trade)
3. Qing Dynasty
(foreigners out, Conf)
4. Tokugawa Shogunate
in Japan (no foreigners)
5. British, Spanish,
French, Portuguese
empires grow
-Era of revolutions
-Marxist communism
developed in response
to industrialization
-Fall of Qing Dyn
-Tokugawa to Meiji
Japan
-Nationalism across
Europe (Italy/Germany)
-League of Nations
-United Nations
-NATO/Warsaw Pact
-Cold War –
Soviet/American
empires
Name Five – Thematic (Cont.)
Foundations
600-1450
1450-1750
1750-1914
1914-Present
1. Creation,
expansion,
interaction of
economic systems
-Agriculture
-Trade / Commerce
-Labor Systems
-Industrialization
-Economic Systems
1. Localized trade
2. Silk Roads
3. Roman Road system
4. Slavery in most parts
of world
5. Early Indian Ocean
sea lanes / trading
network
1. Development &
transformation of
social structures
-Gender roles
-Family structures &
kinship
-Racial & ethnic
constructions
-Social & economic
classes
1. Patriarchal societies
2. Sati ritual (India)
3. Chinese –
Veneration of
Ancestors
4. Indian Caste System
1. Indian Ocean trade
network
2. Vikings in N. Europe
3. Feudalism in W.
Europe
4. Marco Polo’s travels
5. Ibn Battuta’s travels
6. Zheng He’s travels
1. Footbinding in
Tang/Song
China
2. Women’s rights
in early Islam
3. Feudalism ends
in Europe after
plague
4. Filial piety
(respect for
elders) in China
1. Atlantic Slave trade
2. Triangular Trade
3. Columbian Exchange
4. Joint Stock Co’s
5. Russian
Westernization w/ Peter
the Great
-Era of industrialization
-Crops continue to
spread across world
(pop. Increases)
-Formal slavery
outlawed in most
countries (1800s)
-Economic imperialism
-Post WWII: World
Bank, IMF
-“Economic Miracle” in
Japan, Singapore, Hong
Kong
-Collapse of Soviet
Communism,
continuation of China
1. Americas: New
social classes
(mestizos,
mullatoes,
zambos, creoles)
2. Muslim
Gunpowder
Empires &
toleration
-New rights for women
-Traditional roles for
women change during
Industrialization
-Serfdom ends in Russia
-Slavery outlawed in
most parts of world
-Women voting rights –
post WWI industrial
countries
-New roles for women in
world wars
-Revolutions from below
in former colonies – new
social rights