Big Era 1
Humans in the Universe (13 Billion - 200,000 Years ago)
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Formation of earth, processes and chronology
Evolution of homo sapiens
Creation myths
Plate tectonics and the formation and mutability of geographic features
Early organisms, the evolution mechanism, photosynthesis
Reptiles  mammals  primates  hominids
Early hominid social organization, technology (close-knit, fire, stone tools)
o Human culture/nature
Big Era 2
Human Beings Almost Everywhere (200,000-10,000 Years Ago)
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Global human migration
Emergence of language & writing
Life as hunter-gatherers
Big Era 3
Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies (10,000 - 1000 BCE)
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Neolithic Revolution; agriculture & domestication
Early river civilizations & complex societies
Models of agriculture and population growth
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus, Huang He, Americas
Big Era 4
Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounter (1200 BCE - 500 CE)
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Greece and India (identity and caste in territorial societies)
Rome, Han China, Persian, Mesoamerican empires
Silk Routes and Roads
Emergence of
Big Era 5
Patterns of Interregional Unity (300-1500 CE)
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European feudalism & the manor system
Christianity & the role of the Church in MAE
Islam and the growth of the Muslim empire
Reconquista & the crusades
Growth of towns & trade guilds
Trans-hemispheric trade networks
Mongol empire & the black death & decline of feudalism
Byzantine & ottoman empires
Early Americas & spheres of interaction in the Americas
Big Era 6
The Great Global Convergence (1400-1800 CE)
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Reasons for and results of Iberian & Chinese voyages of exploration
Columbian exchange and its consequences
The great dying and the Atlantic slave trade
Encomienda & the restructuring of American society
Mercantilism & the rise of powerful states & absolute monarchies
Creation of a global economy
Scientific revolution
Reformation & counter-reformation
Big Era 7
Industrialization and its Consequences (1750-1914 CE)
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Industrial revolution & ideological responses (liberalism, utopianism, Marxism)
Enlightenment & the Atlantic political revolutions
Political liberalism, nationalism, and the fight for self-determination
Peoples & their governments (?)
19th century migrations (?)
Global empires and the experience of colonialism
o Scramble for Africa, Berlin conference
Nationalism, religion & identity
Big Era 8
A Half-Century of Crisis (1900-1950 CE)
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Causes & consequences of WWI
o Ottoman empire
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o Scramble for Africa
o Total war & technologies
o Armenian holocaust
o Treaty of Versailles
Search for peace and stability in the 20s and 30s
o League of Nations
o Russian Revolution
o Europeans’ re-formation of the Middle East
The great depression
Social change & resistance in colonial empires (?)
Causes & consequences of WWII
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