Tom White, Nikitha
Lattupally, Matt
Massaro, Jessica
Thomas
Geographic Ranges
Mesopotamia
 Egypt
 Indus (India)
 Shang (China)
 Mesoamerica
Andean South America
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Geographical Maps
The map shows the geographical range during Alexander Empire
and the Hellenistic World.
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8000 B.C.E.-The Current Era
8500-3500Development
of farming in
Middle EastAgricultural
Revolution
5000
Domesticatio
n of maize in
Mesoamerica
5000-2000 Age of
innovation in Middle
East: writing, bronze,
metalworking, wheel,
plow
3100
Rise of
Egyptian
civilization
2500-1750
Babylonian
Empire in Middle
East
2500-1500-India
civilization in South
Asia
2000-1500Decline of the
Middle Kingdom
in Egypt, civil war
•2000-1000-Greeks
begin to settle along the
Mediterranean
8000 B.C.E.- The Current Era
17601122
Shang
Dynasty
in China
Greek defeat of
Persia; spread of
Athenian Empire
Growth of
empire in
Egypt
1750 Persia
begins to
expand its
powerbase
1029 258
Zhou
dynasty
753
Rome is
founded
431-404
Peloponnesian
Wars
500
Greek War
against
Persians
1 C.E. to 600 C.E.
30
Crucifixion
of Christ
27
Official
beginning
of the
Roman
Empire
146
Roman
conquest
of Greece
476
313
Last
Conversion of
Roman
Emperor
emperor
330
Constantine to
Capital of Roman deposed,
Christianity
Empire moved to fall of
Constantinople Rome
300-400
Invasion of
Europe by
the Germanic
tribes
527-565
Justinian,
Eastern
Emperor
390
589-618
Rome
319Sui dynasty
Sacked
540
in China
by Gauls
Gupta
Empire 335
395
Roman Empire divided
Rise of
into two halves, the
Alexander
Western half- Byzantine
the GreatHellenistic and the Eastern half
period
Shifting cultivation
Metalworking
Migratory farmers
Domestication
Nomadic pastoralism
Centralized rule
Decentralized rule
Pastoralist
Irrigation
Neolithic Revolution
Settled agriculture
Gautama
Buddha 563 to
483 B.C.E.
•Religious leader
Jesus
Confucius 551-478
B.C.E.
•Chinese philosopher
•influential
Justinian
•Eastern Roman
Emperor
•Project to
restore the
empire
Alexander the Great
356-323 B.C.E
• successful ancient
Greek military
commander
Abraham
•Christian, Jewish,
and Islamic religions
•Father of the people
of Israel
Sargon
•Created an empire
•Founder of Akkad Dynasty
Trajan
•Roman emperor, 98-117
Cyrus
•Founder of the Persian
empire
•“Father of Iran”
Hammurabi
•First king of the Babylonian
empire
•Wrote a set of codes
Emperor Wu of Han
•7th emperor of Han dynasty
•Territorial expansion
Ashoka the Great
•Indian emperor
•Buddhist
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Transition of agriculture
Irrigation systems
Introduction of religions
calendars, pottery containers, baskets, storehouses,
weaving
introduction of bronze, metalworking
Feudalism
Slavery
Iron-plows, weapons
Social classes
Artisan classes
Settled agriculture
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Political hierarchies
Trading networks
Conversion to agriculture in northern Europe, Southern
Africa
Writing was developed in China
Cultivation of maize, potatoes, domestication of turkey
and dogs
China began to build the Great Wall of China
Invention of paper and the compass
Root crops were introduced to Southern Africa through
trade
Porcelain developed in China
Universities were established in India