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| 2570617034 | Mesopotamia | 3500-2350BCE city-states, stratified, women lost standing, agriculture, participated in trade, cuneiform, ziggurats | 0 | |
| 2570619819 | Nubia | 3000-1500BCE traded gold, copper, and semiprecious stones with Egypt | 1 | |
| 2570717687 | Egypt | 3100-525BCE farmers, involved in trade, Pharaoh | 2 | |
| 2570622030 | Old Kingdom Egypt | 2575-2134BCE Pharaohs and economy strongest, built pyramids | 3 | |
| 2570623007 | Middle Kingdom Egypt | 2040-1640BCE extensive trade, middle class developed, conquered by Hyksos | 4 | |
| 2570624719 | New Kingdom Egypt | 1532-1070BCE expanded territory | 5 | |
| 2570634505 | Indus River Valley | 2600-1900BCE Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa, agricultural, participated in trade, organized government, clear social classes, writing on clay seals | 6 | |
| 2570635876 | Shang Dynasty | 1750-1122BCE metallurgy, silk trade, warrior king | 7 | |
| 2570637726 | Minoans | 2000-1450BCE Island of Crete | 8 | |
| 2570639391 | Mycenaens | 1600-1200BCE Greek mainland, warlike and aggressive, trade on Aegean sea | 9 | |
| 2570642007 | Olmecs | ca. 1250-400 BCE agricultural, cities center of religion and trade, authoritarian and hierarchical | 10 | |
| 2570645015 | Greece | 1100-300 BCE foundation of west, greco-persian wars, peloponnesian wars, polis, agricultural, participated in trade, citizens v. noncitizens, spartan women had more rights | 11 | |
| 2570646833 | Chavin | 1000-200 BCE geographically challenged, agricultural, trade routes | 12 | |
| 2570648841 | Zhou Dynasty | 1100-221BCE written records, extended territories, decentralized, professional bureaucrats, socially stratified, women lost status, shamans and oracle bones, early pictographs, Confucianism | 13 | |
| 2570650936 | Phoenicia | 800-200 BCE maritime trade, alphabet, city-states | 14 | |
| 2570651575 | Roman Republic | 800-31 BCE senate, patricians and plebians, consuls, tribunes | 15 | |
| 2570652587 | Archaemenid Persia | 550-331 BCE Cyrus the Great, Zoroastrianism, Postal/Road system | 16 | |
| 2570654074 | Mauryan Empire | 300-100 BCE Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka-united India, Buddhism | 17 | |
| 2570656292 | Parthian Persia | 247 BCE-224CE Center of trade, located on Silk Road, warred with Rome | 18 | |
| 2570657843 | Qin Dynasty | 221-206BCE unified China, legalist, Great Wall, centralized government, Shi Huangdi, standardized laws and currencies | 19 | |
| 2570658676 | Han Dynasty | 206BCE-220CE golden age, started silk road, coins and paper, educated bureaucracy | 20 | |
| 2570668265 | Roman Empire | 30BCE-476CE codified law, agricultural, patron-client relationships, women had more freedom than Greek women | 21 | |
| 2570669363 | Sassanid Persia | 224BCE-651CE peak of Persian culture, influenced Islam | 22 | |
| 2570670584 | Maya | 250-900CE agricultural, trade not important, cities were religious and administrative centers, clear social classes, human sacrifice | 23 | |
| 2570670585 | Moche | 200-700CE agricultural, highly stratified | 24 | |
| 2570671964 | Gupta Empire | 300-500CE less area than Mauryan, modeled after Mauryan | 25 | |
| 2570941663 | Byzantium | 300-1453CE caesaropapism, Justinian codified law, bureaucracy, women's status worsened, eastern orthodox church, cyrillic writing | 26 | |
| 2570961505 | Umayyad Caliphate | 661-750CE continued to expand, bureaucracy, excluded non-Arab subjects, capital at Damascus | 27 | |
| 2570942595 | Abbasid Caliphate | 750-1258CE Baghdad, shari'a law, vizier, agricultural, urban expansion, participated in trade, madrasas, mathematical knowledge | 28 | |
| 2570943395 | Ghana | 800-1200CE gold trade, converted to Islam | 29 | |
| 2570944445 | Great Zimbabwe | 1000-1400CE | 30 | |
| 2570944446 | Mali | 1200-1600CE Sundiata, griots, controlled African trade, Muslim kings, Mansa Masu | 31 | |
| 2570945928 | Sui | 589-618CE built Grand Canal | 32 | |
| 2570945929 | Tang | 618-906CE capital at Chang'an, extended borders, tributary system, Confucian bureaucracy, elevated status of bureaucrats, Chinese and Turkish culture, Buddhism popular | 33 | |
| 2570948959 | Song | 960-1279CE weakened military, revolutionized agriculture, commerce, paper money, compass, and increased agriculture, champa rice, neo-Confucianism, foot binding | 34 | |
| 2571063888 | Yuan Dynasty | 1271-1368CE Mongols at top of hierarchy, favored merchants, remained separate from Chinese, | 35 | |
| 2570949651 | Nara | 700sCE | 36 | |
| 2570949652 | Heian | 794-1185CE Fujiwara family, Confucian and Chinese influence, Tale of Genji, warriors had government responsibility | 37 | |
| 2570950677 | Delhi Sultanate | 1206-1526CE ruled by Muslim sultans, Indians kept their religion | 38 | |
| 2570951784 | Toltec | 800-1000CE unified Mexico, agricultural, centralized, military power, two rulers | 39 | |
| 2570952723 | Aztecs | 1200-1520CE Tenochtitlan, chinampas, tribute system, military power, social hierarchy, semidivine king, powerful priests, human sacrifice | 40 | |
| 2570952724 | Inca | 1300-1500CE agricultural, mit'a system, ayllu, quipu knot tying, divine ruler, road system, large military, less human sacrifice | 41 | |
| 2570954241 | Safavid | 1501-1700sCE Shi'ite Muslim, hostile with Ottomans, peaked under Abbas I, Russain slave infantrymen, military and religious authority, promoted trade, Turkish and Persian culture, Sufi mysticism | 42 | |
| 2570954242 | Songhai | 1400s-1500sCE agricultural, gold, Muslim leaders | 43 | |
| 2571080350 | Ming Dynasty | 1368-1644CE reinstalled Confucianism, mandarins, eunuchs, began period of isolation, Zheng He's voyages | 44 | |
| 2570955124 | Qing Dynasty | 1644-1912CE Manchu, separate from Chinese, civil service exams, agriculture based, patriarchal, status of scholar-bureaucrats grew, neo-Confucianism | 45 | |
| 2570956031 | Tokugawa Shogunate | 1603-1868CE bafuku, alternate attendance, economic and population growth, Confucian hierarchy | 46 | |
| 2570957130 | Mughal Empire | 1500s-1800sCE Babur, Akbar-religious tolerance, autocratic rulers, Aurangzeb ended tolerance, controlled trade routes | 47 | |
| 2571060002 | Mongols | 1206-late 1300sCE expanded through Asia, fragmented, Pax Mongolica, assimilated to Islam, increased trade in Russia | 48 | |
| 2571291552 | Ottoman Empire | 1299-1922 founded by Osman, peaked in 1500s under Suleiman, sultans were political and military leaders, devshirme system, janissaries, large bureaucracy, vizier, wealthy from trade, mostly Sunni Muslim | 49 |
