1: 8000 b.c.e-600 c.e.
2: 600-1450
3: 1450-1750
4: 1750-1914
5: 1914-present
381512769 | 1 | Many located in river valleys | 0 | |
381512770 | 1 | larger cities | 1 | |
381512771 | 1 | monumental architecture and public building projects | 2 | |
381512772 | 1 | written language | 3 | |
381512773 | 1 | complex political organizations | 4 | |
381512774 | 1 | specialization of labor | 5 | |
381512775 | 1 | advanced art and literature | 6 | |
381512776 | 1 | long distance trade | 7 | |
381512777 | 1 | complex irrigation systems | 8 | |
381512778 | 1 | development of legal codes | 9 | |
381512779 | 1 | use of money | 10 | |
381512780 | 1 | scientific knowledge, numbering systems, calendars | 11 | |
381512781 | 1 | intensification of social inequality | 12 | |
381512782 | 1 | most major world religions arise | 13 | |
381512783 | 2 | older belief systems became more important than political organization in some areas | 14 | |
381512784 | 2 | nomadic groups made a huge impact | 15 | |
381512785 | 2 | Islam arises and spreads quickly | 16 | |
381512786 | 2 | by 1450 Europe was becoming a major area of the world | 17 | |
381512787 | 2 | Major empires developed in South America and Meso-America | 18 | |
381512788 | 2 | China was powerful and prosperous | 19 | |
381512789 | 2 | long distance trade increased | 20 | |
381512790 | 2 | urbanization continued and important trade cities emerged | 21 | |
381512791 | 3 | globe was encompassed (east meets west) | 22 | |
381512792 | 3 | Sea based trade rose in proportion to land based trade | 23 | |
381512793 | 3 | European kingdoms emerged and gained world power | 24 | |
381512794 | 3 | importance of nomadic groups declined | 25 | |
381512795 | 3 | labor systems transformed (slave, mita, encomienda) | 26 | |
381512796 | 3 | 'gunpowder empires' emerged in the middle east and Asia | 27 | |
381512797 | 3 | new maritime technologies (compass, astrolabe, ect) | 28 | |
381512798 | 3 | new trade patterns changed crops, diseases, goods, ect. | 29 | |
381512799 | 4 | European Hegemony | 30 | |
381512800 | 4 | European dominance of trade routes | 31 | |
381512801 | 4 | 'have' and 'have not' countries emerge | 32 | |
381512802 | 4 | industrialization | 33 | |
381512803 | 4 | inequalities emerge because of Imperialism | 34 | |
381512804 | 4 | political revolutions- a desire for democracy and/or independence | 35 | |
381512805 | 4 | Suez and Panama canals made travel distance shorter | 36 | |
381512806 | 4 | Large number of people migrated to the Americas | 37 | |
381512807 | 5 | the term 'west' now has a new meaning | 38 | |
381512808 | 5 | increase in international contact (globalization) | 39 | |
381512809 | 5 | the Democratic transition | 40 | |
381512810 | 5 | changes in belief systems (liberalism, nationalism, communism) | 41 | |
381512811 | 5 | questioning of systems of inequality (reform movements) | 42 | |
381512812 | 5 | war and diplomacy | 43 | |
381512813 | 5 | new nationalism (de-colonization) | 44 | |
381512814 | 5 | Revolutions for change (Russia, China, L. America) | 45 | |
381512815 | 5 | Environment changed (deforestation, urbanization, green movements, population increase) | 46 |