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Snapshot Chart: World History - to 600 B.C.E.
Read Martin (5 Steps to a 5) pp. 53-75 and Armstrong,et al. (The Princeton Review: Cracking the AP World History Exam 2013) pp. 90102, and complete the following chart.
North America
P
E
R
S
I/A
N
Tribal governments
 Clovis
 Chumash
Hunting & gathering
(foraging)
Shamanism
Neolithic village
organization
Clovis point
technology
Migrated from Asia
(b/t 30,000-15,00
ya)
Polytheism
Nomadism
Canoe (tomol)
Cultivation of maize
Mesoamerica
 Olmec
 City-states
Latin America
Andean So. America
 Norte Chico,
Chavin
 Regional
kingdoms
Cultivation of maize
(Mesoamerica) &
potato (Andean So.
America)
Stratified societies
Polytheism
Copper metallurgy
Use of slaves
Complex temples
(Chavin)
Geography & lack of
domestication
limited trade
Foraging (San)
Polytheism
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Tribal governments
Pastoralism
Regional kingdoms
Root crop
agriculture
(sorghum & yams)
Kinship or lineage
societies
Animism
“stateless” societies
Iron working
Trans-Saharan trade
Monumental head
sculptures, terraced
pyramids & writing
system (Olmecs)
Spread of BantuAncestor veneration speaking languages
N/A
Scattered
throughout No.
America
Did NOT develop in
major river valleys
Emerged in areas
with rugged terrain
near coastlines
(small streams &
rivers)
Bantu people
gradually migrated
east & south from
homelands in
present-day Nigeria
& Cameroon;
gradually populated
east, central, &
southern Africa
Middle East/
North Africa
Mesopotamia
 Sumerian citystates (godkings)
 Akkadian &
Babylonian
Empires
 Code of
Hammurabi
 Kingdom of
Israel
Egypt
 Pharaohs (godkings)
 Kingdoms of
Egypt & Kush
Mesopotamia
 Cereal
agriculture
(grains)
 irrigation
 Wheel
 Trade w/ Indus
Valley & Egypt
Polytheism
Urbanization
Judaism
(Kingdom of Isreal)
Stratified society
Patriarchy
Slavery
Egypt
 Cereal
agriculture
(barley)
 irrigation
 Iron working
 Trade w/
Sumer & Persia
Mesopotamia
 Cuneiform
writing
 Ziggurats
 Epic of
Gilgamesh
Egypt
 Pyramids
 Mummification
 heiroglyphics
Paleolithic cave art
Neolithic village
governments
Europe
Cereal agriculture
Iron working
Polytheism
Neolithic village
societies
Venus figurines
Animism
Early Greek citystates (Minoans,
Myceneans, etc.)
Monumental
architecture (ex.
Stonehenge)
Early Greek fresco
painting & mosaic
Russia/
Central Asia
East Asia
Tribal governments
Dynastic Rule :
China
 Shang
 Zhou
Pastoral Nomadism
Polytheism
Trade facilitators w/
settled societies
Animism
Rice, millet agric.
Paleolithic tribal
organization
Urbanization
Bronze crafts
Ancestor veneration
Bronze & iron
metallurgy
Stratified society
Limited trade w/ So.
& SW Asia
Bureucracy
Egypt emerged in
the fertile Nile River
Valley which
flooded annually &
peacefully; natural
barriers prevented
invasion.
Early Neolithic
communities
scattered across
Western & Central
Europe
1st civilizations
emerged on Greek
islands in
Mediterranean Sea
Vast plains across
Central Europe,
Ukrain, & Russia
Huange He (Yellow)
River Valley
“All Under Heaven”
Oracle bones
Patriarchy
Mandate of
Heaven
Venus figurines
Mesopotamia
emerged in TigrisEuphrates River
Valley with
unpredictable
flooding & a lack of
natural barriers for
protection.
Pottery & silk
production
Isolated by deserts
(Gobi), mountains
(Himalayas), & seas
South Asia
Urban centers
 Harappa &
MohenjoDaro
 Strong central
gov’ts (priestkings)
 Uniformly
planned on
precise grid
 Sewer
systems &
running water
Cereal agriculture
(grains)
Trade w/
Mesopotamia
(Sumer)
Polytheism
Belief in
reincarnation
Urbanization
Patriarchy
Epic religious poems:
 Vedas
 Upanishads
Caste system based
on varna & jati
Indus River Valley
w/ its violent &
unpredictable
flooding
Massive mountain
chain (Himalayas &
Hindu Kush) to
north provides
natural barrier
Sanskrit written
language
Khyber Pass
provides outlet to
outside world
Aryan invasions
Root crops
Regional kingdoms
& empires
Southeast Asia
N/A
Neolithic village
organization
N/A
Polytheism
Paleolithic tribal
organization
Paleolithic cave art
Fruit production
(bananas, etc.)
N/A
Trade w/ So. Asia
Oceania
Tribal governments
(Australia’s
Aborigines)
Regional chiefdoms
(ex. Hawaiii)
Foraging
Animism
(Dreamtime)
Indonesians
migrated to Austrial
by boat c. 60,000
years ago
Austronesians
migrated into
Pacific settling
islands c. 3,500 ya