Mrs. Osborn’s APWH
PERIODS 1 & 2: to 600 CE
1) Paleolithic Age – 205 million BCE – 10,000BCE a. Gender b. Settlement c. Neanderthal Man vs. Cro Magnum Man
2) Neolithic Age 8000BCE – 3000BCE a. Food? b. Settlements? c. Cities?
3) Sumerian City States 3000BCE a. Ur…
Early River Civilizations
4) Sumerian Empires a. Babylonian b. Hittites, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Hebrews
5) Egypt 3000BCE – 1100BCE
6) China a. Shang on the Huang (1700BCE – 1100BCE) b. Zhou – 1100BCE
7) Indus Valley: 3300 BCE – 1700 BCE
8) Religions a. Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Classical Civilizations
9) Greeks
10) Alexander the Great
11) Rome
12) Zhou, Qin, Han
13) Mauryan and Gupta India

PERIOD 3: 600 CE – 1450 CE
1) China a. Sui b. Tang c. Song d. Yuan
2) Byzantine Empire
3) Islam and Dar-al-Islam
4) Western Europe
5) Indian Ocean Trade & Southeast Asia
6) Japan
7) Golden Age of Nomads a. Vikings b. Seljuk Turks c. Mongols
8) Crusades
9) Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
10) Americas a. Mayans b. Aztecs c. Incas
11) Ming China
12) West African Empires a. Ghana b. Mali
13) East African States a. Mogudishu b. Kilwa c. Safala

PERIOD 4: 1450 CE – 1750 CE
1) Ming China
2) Tokugawa Japan
3) Ottoman Empire
4) Mughal India
5) Safavids Empire
6) Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment
7) Portugal
8) Spain
9) Dutch
10) France
11) England
12) African a. Benin - Eware the Great b. Kongo – King Afoso c. Asante – Osei tutu
13) East African a. Zanzibar
14) Americas (including Columbian Exchange & African Slave Trade)
15) Russia
PERIOD 5: 1750 – 1900
1) The Rise of the West
2) The Wannabes a. Russia b. Japan
3) Age of Revolutions a. United States b. French c. Haitian d. Latin American
4) Industrial Revolution a. Technological Advances b. Factory conditions c. Living conditions d. Changes in Social Structure
5) Imperialism
6) Scramble for Africa, East Asia (China and Japan), West Asia (India)
7) Meiji Japan
8) Vienna and Berlin Conferences
9) Zulu War, Boar War, Russo/Japanese War, Crimean War
10) Suez and Panama Canals
11) Effects of Revolution on Women

PERIOD 6: 1900 – Present
1) Causes of World War I a. Militarism b. Alliances c. Nationalism d. Imperialism e. Assassination
2) Woodrow Wilson a. 14pt speech b. League of Nations
3) Treaty of Versailles
4) Acts of Aggression prior to WWII
5) Axis Powers
6) Neville Chamberlain vs Winston Churchill
7) Munich Pact, Hitler-Stalin Pact
8) Blitzkrieg
9) Pearl Harbor
10) Atomic Bomb
11) 20th Century Revolutions a. Mexican b. Russian c. Chinese d. Cuban e. Iranian
12) Decolonization after WWII a. Violent Revolutions and Civil Wars b. Non-Violent c. Both violent and non-violent
13) Decolonization a. Middle East and the creation of Israel in 1948 b. Algeria c. Indian Independence movement d. Kenya e. Egypt f. South Africa
14) Cold War a. FRG vs. GDR b. US vs. USSR c. Containment d. Truman Doctrine e. Marshall Plan f. Berlin Blockade g. Berlin Wall h. Iron Curtain

i. Korean War j. Vietnam War k. Cuban Missile Crisis
15) Fall of Communism a. Poland b. Czechoslovakia c. Hungary d. East Germany e. Romania f. China (Tiananmen Square Massacre) g. Gorbachev i. Glasnost ii. Perestroika
16) International Terrorism a. Osama Bin Laden and September 11th b. Afghanistan c. Iraq d. Global Terrorism
17) Creation of United Nations
18) NATO
19) European Union
20) Genocides a. Armenian b. Holocaust c. Cambodia d. Rwanda e. Bosnian Muslims