6761696546 | 6 | The Russian and Ottoman Empires collapse | 0 | |
6761696547 | 2 | Persian empires create highly centralized empires with the king as a deity | 1 | |
6761696548 | 4 | European Christianity forms syncretic religious beliefs with indigenous Latin American and Caribbean faiths. | 2 | |
6761696549 | 5 | The Russian Empire emancipates serfs in order to create a new labor force | 3 | |
6761696550 | 1 | Vedic traditions were codified into patterns of rituals and sacrifices in South Asia | 4 | |
6761696551 | 3 | The Chinese invade Vietnam, discover quick ripening champagne rice, and experience a population increase | 5 | |
6761696552 | 5 | A slave revolt in the Caribbean creates a free black republic | 6 | |
6761696553 | 4 | An exchange of crops, culture, animals, and disease pathogens begins between Afro- Eurasia and the Americas | 7 | |
6761696554 | 2 | Migrating Huns add to the decline of empires in South Asia, East Asia, and Europe | 8 | |
6761696555 | 6 | South Asia is partitioned into two states because of irreconcilable religious differences | 9 | |
6761696556 | 1 | Olmecs and Chavin civilizations thrive | 10 | |
6761696557 | 4 | Portugal creates a trading post empire in the India Ocean | 11 | |
6761696558 | 3 | Islamic Caliphates first rise | 12 | |
6761696559 | 5 | A substantial number of Asians migrate to the Americas for agricultural labor | 13 | |
6761696560 | 3 | Using their longboats, the Vikings raid western Europeans who develop local institutions for security | 14 | |
6761696561 | 2 | Hellenism spreads to Central Asia and forms syncretic cultures there | 15 | |
6761696562 | 3 | Chinese and Roman civilizations each combined innovations with their own proven traditions to make more enduring political systems | 16 | |
6761696563 | 4 | New radical classifications, such as mestizo, mulatto, and creole, emerge in colonial Latin America | 17 | |
6761696564 | 5 | The 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 | 18 | |
6761696565 | 6 | Human population increases due to medical and scientific advances such as antibiotics and polio vaccinations | 19 | |
6761696566 | 2 | Migrations into South Asia spread religious ideas and rituals associated with Vedic poetry and song | 20 | |
6761696567 | 4 | The Spanish, Dutch, French, and British establish sea- based empires in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans | 21 | |
6761696568 | 5 | Migration leads to cultural enclaves in major urban areas. They often experience legal discrimination. | 22 | |
6761696569 | 3 | Eurasian no ands create the largest contiguous empire in history. Silk Road is revived | 23 | |
6761696570 | 6 | Women's suffrage movements are successful in Europe and North America | 24 | |
6761696571 | 1 | Zoroastrianism and Hebrew Monotheism form | 25 | |
6761696572 | 5 | A second wave of imperialism pushes Europeans to colonize the continent of Africa and to protect power in much of Asia | 26 | |
6761696573 | 4 | Networks of communication and exchange become truely global | 27 | |
6761696574 | 6 | The most rapid and numerous independence movement in history occurs, some through armed conflict, others through negotiations | 28 | |
6761696575 | 2 | The Cities of Persepolis, Carthage, Rome, Chang'an, and Tenochtitlan serve as major centers of trade and political administration | 29 | |
6761696576 | 1 | Pastorialism and agriculture emerge and increase human populations | 30 | |
6761696577 | 5 | Groups such as the Marathas in South Asia and the Taiping in East Asia challenge imperial rule | 31 | |
6761696578 | 3 | As women gain some economic rights in European guilds, the yoke of patriarchy becomes more intense in China | 32 | |
6761696579 | 6 | Religious fundamentalism forms in the Americas and Middle East as reactions to, respectively, new scientific theories and political frustrations | 33 | |
6761696580 | 4 | In several major civilizations, there are changes in the power of elites who serve as intermediaries between the ruler and the ruled (I.e, zamindars, boyars) | 34 | |
6761696581 | 2 | Confucianism is adopted as the official state ideology for entry into China's bureaucracy | 35 | |
6761696582 | 6 | Experiments in state managed economies take place in China and Russia | 36 | |
6761696583 | 4 | Rather than a unified Dar al Islam, Muslim civilization is characterized by several empires strengthened by their use of firearms | 37 | |
6761696584 | 3 | Major trade cities include Novgorod, Timbuktu, Malacca, and Kilwa | 38 | |
6761696585 | 5 | Banana Republics, whose economies focused on a single export, formed in Latin America | 39 | |
6761696586 | 3 | Eurasian land trade routes continue but are surpassed in volume by maritime routes in the Indian Ocean | 40 | |
6761696587 | 5 | Slavery is replaced by indentured servitude as the primary source of agricultural labor in he Americas | 41 | |
6761696588 | 1 | Production of pottery, textiles and metallurgy skills first appear | 42 | |
6761696589 | 4 | European merchants in Southeast Asia must depend upon Asian women to gain access to trades | 43 | |
6761696590 | 2 | Buddhism spreads into Central and Southeast Asia due to government edicts, missionaries and relics | 44 | |
6761696591 | 6 | Pro-democracy movements are successful in Eastern Europe but crushed in East Asia | 45 | |
6761696592 | 3 | The Grand Canal, a major state funded project to stimulate the economy, is created by the Sui dynasty in China | 46 | |
6761696593 | 1 | The development of systems of writing lead to literary traditions, such as the Rig Veda and Homer's Epics | 47 | |
6761696594 | 3 | After the battle of Talas, paper technology spreads from the Chinese to the Muslims | 48 | |
6761696595 | 5 | After being humiliated by the British, China experiences a massive millenarian rebellion against the rule of foreign Manchus | 49 | |
6761696596 | 6 | Global power structure is characterized by a bi-polar struggle between opposing economic ideologies | 50 | |
6761696597 | 3 | After Muhammad's visions, Islam unifies Arab people and creates a durable monotheistic civilization | 51 | |
6761696598 | 4 | An influx of American silver funds monumental architecture in Mughal India, such as the Taj Mahal | 52 | |
6761696599 | 3 | Arabic numerals and Greek scholarship pass to Europe after Christian military campaigns to take Jerusalem from Muslims | 53 | |
6761696600 | 5 | National identities form out of common cultural, ethnic, linguistic, or religious traits | 54 | |
6761696601 | 1 | Civilizations emerge mainly in river valleys | 55 | |
6761696602 | 3 | On Lake Texcoco, the Aztecs build a decentralized state based on the collection of tribute and an agricultural system situated on raised islands called chinampas | 56 | |
6761696603 | 4 | China experiences a population surge due to the transplanting of American crops and the global flow of American silver | 57 | |
6761696604 | 3 | Invasions, disease, and a "Little Ice Age" decimate Eurasian urban centers, which later recover after improvements in transportation, rising commerce, and the end of invasions | 58 | |
6761696605 | 5 | Enlightenment ideas about liberty and political legitimacy lead to independence movements and revolutions in Europe and the Americas | 59 | |
6761696606 | 3 | China and the Byzantine Empire experience significant revolts of free peasants | 60 | |
6761696607 | 6 | Global commerce is so interconnected that states become less relevant | 61 | |
6761696608 | 2 | Greek colonies facilitate an exchange of commerce and culture in the Mediterranean | 62 | |
6761696609 | 4 | Europeans learn the astrolabe from Muslims, develop the caravel, and navigate around the southern tip of Africa | 63 | |
6761696610 | 3 | Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta travel and interpret the world through their cultural lenses | 64 | |
6761696611 | 4 | Colonial economies in the Americas depend on a wide range of coerced labor | 65 | |
6761696612 | 2 | The Eurasian Silk Roads are the dominant trade system in the world | 66 | |
6761696613 | 5 | Japan is pulled out of its isolation, quickly industrializes, and is accepted as an equal power by the empires of Europe | 67 | |
6761696614 | 6 | Trading blocks of nations form; global organizations emerge to facilitate trade | 68 | |
6761696615 | 4 | The Manchus overthrow the Ming and establish the Qing dynasty in China | 69 | |
6761696616 | 3 | Buddhist and Daoist ideas blend with Confucianism to form Neo-Confucianism, the new state ideology in China | 70 | |
6761696617 | 5 | Massive urbanization and industrialization in Europe lead to smaller families and lower fertility rates | 71 | |
6761696618 | 5 | The need of the "Second Industrial Revolution" lead to copper mining operations in Mexico | 72 | |
6761696619 | 2 | Nestorian Christianity spreads to China and Mahayana Buddhism spreads across Eurasian trade routes. Both experience cultural syncretism | 73 | |
6761696620 | 5 | Industrial production is critiqued by both economic liberals and communist | 74 | |
6761696621 | 5 | The Self-Strengthening Movement is not successful in reforming China | 75 | |
6761696622 | 2 | The first centralized government rises in China | 76 | |
6761696623 | 5 | Ottoman and Chinese civilizations must balance industrial reform with their traditional identities | 77 | |
6761696624 | 5 | Sepoys revolt against British rule in India | 78 | |
6761696625 | 2 | Daoism influences Chinese culture in the areas of architecture, poetry, and medical practices | 79 | |
6761696626 | 1 | Surpluses of food first lead to stratified, patriarchal societies | 80 | |
6761696627 | 5 | Colonization is intensified by evolutionary theories of race | 81 | |
6761696628 | 4 | The Ottoman army, based on conscripted janissaries, clash with their Shia Safavid | 82 | |
6761696629 | 3 | A collection of city-states along the east coast of Africa reach their peak in the Indian Ocean trade | 83 | |
6761696630 | 2 | Mauryans develop a centralized state in South Asia; the Gupta create advanced numbering system and mathematics | 84 | |
6761696631 | 3 | Trade is facilitated by paper currency in Asia, and bills of exchange and credit in the Dar al Islam | 85 | |
6761696632 | 4 | The new Russian Empire encourages peasant settlement into its eastern regions | 86 | |
6761696633 | 6 | Global conflicts reap unprecedented civilian casualties | 87 | |
6761696634 | 2 | Christianity and Buddhism are codified in core civilizations while shamanism and animism continue to thrive outside of them | 88 | |
6761696635 | 3 | Polynesians, Arabs and Bantu people migrate, spreading their languages and food | 89 |
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