389014132 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | Many located in river valleys | 0 | |
389014133 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | larger cities | 1 | |
389014134 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | monumental architecture and public building projects | 2 | |
389014135 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | written language | 3 | |
389014136 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | complex political organization | 4 | |
389014137 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | specialization of labor | 5 | |
389014138 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | advanced art and literature | 6 | |
389014139 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | long distance trade | 7 | |
389014140 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | complex irrigation system | 8 | |
389014141 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | development of legal codes | 9 | |
389014142 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | use of money | 10 | |
389014143 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | scientific knowledge, numbering systems, calendars | 11 | |
389014144 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | intensification of social inequality | 12 | |
389014145 | 8000 BCE - 600 CE | most major world religions arise | 13 | |
389014146 | 600-1450 | older belief systems became more important than political organization in some areas | 14 | |
389014147 | 600-1450 | nomadic groups made a huge impact | 15 | |
389014148 | 600-1450 | islam arises and spreads quickly | 16 | |
389014149 | 600-1450 | by 1450 Europe was becoming a major area of the world | 17 | |
389014150 | 600-1450 | major empires developed in South America and Meso-America | 18 | |
389014151 | 600-1450 | China was powerful and prosperous | 19 | |
389014152 | 600-1450 | long distance trade increased | 20 | |
389014153 | 600-1450 | urbanization continued and important trade cities emerged | 21 | |
389014154 | 1450-1750 | globe was encompassed (east meets west) | 22 | |
389014155 | 1450-1750 | sea based trade rose in proportion to land based trade | 23 | |
389014156 | 1450-1750 | European Kingdoms emerged and gained world power | 24 | |
389014157 | 1450-1750 | importance of nomadic groups declined | 25 | |
389014158 | 1450-1750 | labor systems transformed (slave, mita, emcomienda) | 26 | |
389014159 | 1450-1750 | "gunpowder empires" emerged in the middle east and asia | 27 | |
389014160 | 1450-1750 | new maritime technologies | 28 | |
389014161 | 1450-1750 | new trade patterns changed crops, diseases, goods, etc | 29 | |
389014162 | 1750-1914 | European hegemony | 30 | |
389014163 | 1750-1914 | European dominance of trade routes (unequal treaties) | 31 | |
389014164 | 1750-1914 | "have" and "have not" countries emerge | 32 | |
389014165 | 1750-1914 | industrialization | 33 | |
389014166 | 1750-1914 | inequalities emerge because of Imperialism | 34 | |
389014167 | 1750-1914 | political revolutions-a desire for democracy and/or independence | 35 | |
389014168 | 1750-1914 | Suez and Panama canals made travel distances shorter | 36 | |
389014169 | 1750-1914 | large numbers of people migrated to the Americas | 37 | |
389014170 | 1750-1914 | larger gap between rich and poor in industrialized nations | 38 | |
389014171 | 1914-present | the term "west" has a new meaning | 39 | |
389014172 | 1914-present | increase in international contact (globalization) | 40 | |
389014173 | 1914-present | the democratic transition | 41 | |
389014174 | 1914-present | changes in belief systems(liberalism, nationalism, communism) | 42 | |
389014175 | 1914-present | questioning of systems of inequality (reform movements) | 43 | |
389014176 | 1914-present | war and diplomacy | 44 | |
389014177 | 1914-present | new nationalism (de-colonization) | 45 | |
389014178 | 1914-present | revolutions for change (China, Russia, L.America) | 46 | |
389014179 | 1914-present | Environment changed (deforestation, urbanization, green movement, population increase) | 47 |
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