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13712514134Key concept 1Vedic traditions were codified into patterns of rituals and sacrifices in South America0
13712519451Key concept 1Olmecs and Chavin civilizations thrive1
13712557828Key concept 1Zoroastrianism and Hebrew Monotheism form2
13713701846Key concept 1Pastoralism and agriculture emerge and increase human populations3
13713708638Key concept 1Production of pottery, textiles, and metallurgy skills first appear4
13713728408Key concept 1The development of systems of writing lead to literary traditions such as the Rig Veta and Homer's Epics5
13713777788Key concept 1Civilizations emerge mainly in river valleys6
13713790761Key concept 1Surpluses of food first lead to stratified, patriarchal societies7
13713802590Key concept 2Persian empires create highly centralized empires with the king as a deity8
13713818460Key concept 2Migrating Huns add to the decline of empires in South Asia, East Asia, and Europe9
13713832197Key concept 2Hellenism spreads to Central Asia and forms syncretic cultures there10
13713846949Key concept 2Migrations into South Asia spread religious ideas and rituals associated with Vedic poetry and song11
13713856914Key concept 2The cities of Persepolis, Carthage, Rome, Chang'an, and Teotihuacan serve as major centers of trade and political administration12
13713872291Key concept 2Confucianism is adopted as the official state ideology for entry into China's bureaucracy13
13713892768Key concept 2Buddhism spreads into Central and Southeast Asia due to government edicts, missionaries, and relics14
13713902055Key concept 2Greek colonies facilitate an exchange of commerce and culture in the Mediterranean15
13713916232Key concept 2The Eurasian Silk Roads are the dominant trade system in the world16
13713926620Key concept 2Nestorian Christianity spreads to China and Mahayana Buddhism spreads across Eurasian trade routes. Both experience cultural syncretism.17
13713958205Key concept 2The first centralized government rises in China18
13713970412Key concept 2Daoism influences Chinese culture in the areas of architecture, poetry, and medical practices19
13713987848Key concept 2Mauryans develop a centralized state in South Asia; the Gupta create advanced numbering systems and mathemathics20
13714009062Key concept 2Christianity and Buddhism are codified in core civilization while shamanism and animism continue to thrive outside of them21
13714022957Key concept 3The Chinese invade Vietnam, discover quick-ripening champa rice, and experience a population increase22
13726930512Key concept 3Islamic Caliphates first rise23
13726939142Key concept 3Using their longboats, the Vikings raid western Europeans who develop local institutions for security24
13726947213Key concept 3Chinese and Roman civilizations each combined innovations with their own proven traditions to make more enduring political systems25
13726965029Key concept 3Eurasian nomads create the largest continuous empire in history. Silk Road trade is revitalized26
13726983125Key concept 3As women gain some economic rights in European guilds, the yoke of patriarchy becomes more intense in China.27
13726992597Key concept 3Major trade cities include Novgorod, Timbuktu, Malacca, and Kilwa28
13727005055Key concept 3Eurasian land trade routes continue but are surpassed in volume by maritime routes in the Indian Ocean29
13727017587Key concept 3The Grand Canal, a major state funded project to stimulate the economy, is created by the Sui Dynasty in China30
13727031993Key concept 3After the Battle of Talas, paper technology spreads from the Chinese to Muslims31
13727037940Key concept 3After Mohammad's visions, Islam unifies Arab people and creates a durable monotheistic civilization.32
13727052736Key concept 3Arabic numerals and Greek scholarship pass to Europe after Christian military campaigns to take Jerusalem from Muslims33
13727067705Key concept 3On the Lake Texcoco, the Aztecs build a decentralized state based on the collection of tribute and an agricultural system situation on raised islands called chinampas34
13727086660Key concept 3Invasions, disease, and a "Little Ice Age" decimate Eurasian urban centers, which later recover after improvements in transportation, rising commerce, and the end of invasions35
13727107706Key concept 3China and the Byzantine Empire experience significant revolts of free peasants36
13727196034Key concept 3Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta travel and interpret the world through their cultural lenses37
13727244587Key concept 3Buddhists and Daoist ideas blend with Confucianism to form Neo-Confucianism, the new state ideology in China38
13727270311Key concept 3A collection of city-states along the east coast of Africa reach their peak in Indian Ocean trade39
13727286820Key concept 3Trade is facilitated by paper currency in Asia, and bills of exchange and credit in the Dar al Islam40
13727302759Key concept 3Polynesians, Arabs, and Bantu people migrate, spreading their languages and foods41
13727427857Key concept 4European Christianity forms syncretic religions with indigenous Latin American and Caribbean faiths42
13727440978Key concept 4An exchange of crops, culture, animals, and disease pathogens begins between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas43
13727454958Key concept 4Portugal creates a trading post empire in the India Ocean44
13727464131Key concept 4New radical classifications, such as mestizo, mulatto, and creole, emerge in colonial Latin America45
13727475589Key concept 4The Spanish, Dutch, French, and British establish sea-based empires in the Atlantic and Indian oceans46
13727485946Key concept 4Networks of communication and exchange become truly global47
13727506939Key concept 4In several major civilizations, there are changes in the power of elites who serve as intermediaries between the ruler and the ruled48
13727522603Key concept 4European merchants in Southeast Asia must depend upon Asian women to gain access to trade49
13727524962Key concept 4An influx of American silver funds monumental architecture in Mughal India, such as the Taj Mahal50
13727566506Key concept 4China experiences a population surge due to the transplanting of American crops and the global flow of American silver51
13727586859Key concept 4Europeans learn the astrolabe from Muslims, develop the caravel, and navigate around the southern tip of Africa52
13727597510Key concept 4Colonial economies in the Americas depend on a wide range of coerced labor53
13739847858Key concept 4Rather than a unified Dar al Islam, Muslim culture is characterized by several empires characterized by several empires strengthened by their use of firearms54
13727606835Key concept 4The Manchus overthrow the Ming and establish the Qing dynasty in China55
13727612924Key concept 4The Ottoman army, based on conscripted janissaries, clash with their Shia Safavid neighbors56
13727629399Key concept 4The new Russian Empire encourages peasant settlement into its eastern regions57
13739623587Key concept 5The Russian Empire emancipates serfs in order to create a new labor force58
13739630232Key concept 5A slave revolt in the Caribbean creates a free black republic59
13739647177Key concept 5A substantial number of Asians migrates to the Americas for agricultural labor60
13739650212Key concept 5The Tanzimat Reform in the Ottoman Empire provokes conservatives by its attempt to secularize education and define society as a collection of individuals equal before the law.61
13739658326Key concept 5Migration leads to cultural enclaves in major urban areas. They often experience legal discrimination62
13739663133Key concept 5A second wave of imperialism pushes Europeans to colonize the continent of Africa and to project power in much of Asia63
13739669479Key concept 5Groups such as the Marathas in South Asia and the Taiping in East Asia challenge imperial rule64
13739676021Key concept 5Banana Republics, whose economies focused on a single export, formed in Latin America65
13739680122Key concept 5Slavery is replaced by indentured servitude as the primary source of agricultural labor in the Americas66
13739684044Key concept 5After being humiliated by the British, China experiences a massive millenarian rebellion against the rule of the foreign Manchus67
13739692923Key concept 5National identities form out of common cultural, ethnic, linguistic or religious traits68
13739699708Key concept 5Enlightenment ideas about liberty and political legitimacy lead to independence movements and revolutions in Europe and the Americas69
13739703918Key concept 5Japan is pulled out of its isolation, quickly industrializes, and is accepted as an equal power by the empires of Europe70
13739710838Key concept 5Massive urbanization and industrialization in Europe lead to smaller families and lower fertility rates71
13739715776Key concept 5The needs of the "Second Industrial Revolution" lead to copper mining operations in Mexico72
13739719015Key concept 5Industrial production is critiqued by both economic liberals and communists73
13739725947Key concept 5The Self-Strengthening Movement is not successful in reforming China74
13739729064Key concept 5Ottoman and Chinese civilizations must balance industrial reform with their traditional indenties75
13739733087Key concept 5Sepoys revolt against British rule in India76
13739736622Key concept 5Colonization is intensified by evolutionary theories of race77
13739739856Key concept 6The Russian and Ottoman Empires collapse78
13739744269Key concept 6South Asia is partitioned into two states because of irreconcilable religious differences79
13739748517Key concept 6Human population increases due to medical and scientific advances such as antibiotics and polio vaccinations80
13739756441Key concept 6Women's suffrage movements are successful in Europe and North America81
13739761180Key concept 6The most rapid and numerous independence movement in history occurs, some through armed conflict, and others through negotiations82
13739775252Key concept 6Religious fundamentalism forms in the Americas and Middle East as reactions to, respectively, new scientific theories and political frustrations83
13739783866Key concept 6Experiments in state managed economies take place in China and Russia84
13739788350Key concept 6Pro-democracy movements are successful in Easter Europe but crushed in East Asia85
13739796571Key concept 6Global power structure is characterized by bi-polar struggle between opposing economic ideologies86
13739800975Key concept 6Global commerce is so interconnected that states become less relevant87
13739805625Key concept 6Trading blocks of nations form; global organization emerge to facilitate rates88
13739810405Key concept 6Global conflicts reap unprecedented civilian casualties89

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