4393537380 | Song dynasty | 960 ce -urbanization -silk road- vessels, silk -canton- busy trading center -methematics/austronomers -inventions- compass, rudder, gunpowder, paper currency, block printing -civil service exam -footbinding- crippled feet | 0 | |
4393537381 | Qing dynasty | 1644 ce - manchu dynasty - empress cixi -increased contact with west (trade) - "spheres of influence" - taiping rebellion- hong xiuquan "young bro of jesus" -tributary system - opium wars - hundred days reform -capital beijing | 1 | |
4393537382 | Ming dynasty | 1368 ce - beijing becomes forbidden city - tributary system (forced 50 states to pay) - zheng he- ships - pottery/porcelain - art- scroll paintings(landscapes) - hong wu and son yongol | 2 | |
4393537383 | Shang dynasty | 1750 BCE - Bronze Age - river civilization ( yellow and Yangtze) | 3 | |
4393537384 | Sui dynasty | 589 CE - before Tang Dynasty | 4 | |
4393537385 | Zhou dynasty | 1027 BCE -mandate of heaven - warring states period - Confucianism and daoism | 5 | |
4393537386 | Qin dynasty | 221 BCE - shi huangdi- "first emperor" - centralized - standard weights and measures - modernized Chinese army- weapons - built Great Wall of china - legalism | 6 | |
4393740511 | Han dynasty | 206 BCE - wu ti- emperor - tributary system - built: roads and forts - silk production - centralized - fall of empire: attack of the Huns | 7 | |
4393882358 | Tang Dynasty | 618 CE - golden age - Indian Ocean/Silk Road (5000 miles) - civil service exam - "kow tow"- bow down to emperor - grand canal -tributary system - fall of empire: pesent rebellions | 8 | |
4393882359 | Yuan dynasty | 1271 CE - pax Mongolia - kublai khan -Genghis khan -Mandarin Chinese (official language) -tributary system - Silk Road - couldn't conquer Japan -Buddhism - fall of empire: bubonic plague | 9 | |
4393882360 | Ashikaga shogunate | 1336 CE - decentralized - feudal period - code of bushido | 10 | |
4393882361 | Tokugawa shogunate | 1603 CE -feudal period - code of bushido - close country edict- exceptions: Dutch and Chinese - haiku poetry - capital: edo - kabuki theater - port Nagasaki - wife must obey husband or death | 11 | |
4393882362 | Meiji restoration | 1868 CE - commodore Mathew perry open Japan to west - signs a treaty with USA (Townsend Harris) to trade - diet- parliment - abolished feudalism - capture Taiwan and Korea - zaibatsu- government sponcers industrialization - port Nagasaki | 12 | |
4393882364 | Kamakura shogunate | 1185 CE - decentralized - feudal period -Code of bushido - Mongols tried to attack Japan but failed because of the kamakazi( Devine wind) | 13 | |
4393899363 | Japan between both world wars | 1900's -controlled by the military - emperor thought he was god - violent - imperialists - believe in honor (die for emperor) | 14 | |
4405382110 | Indus River civilization | 2600 bce - 2 major cities - Harappa and Mohenjo Dara - plumbing - grid like cities - trade with Mesopotamia -handwriting (unknown) -don't know how it fell | 15 | |
4405382111 | Delhi sultanate | 1206 ce - brought Islam to India - Muslim women in India had more rights than Indian women - Timur- warlord | 16 | |
4405382112 | Aryan | 1500 bce - brought Hinduism - brought Sanskrit -caste system - nomadic | 17 | |
4405382113 | Mauryan | 324 bce -Sandra Gupta Mauryan - Ashoka- converted to Buddhism - carved laws Into pillars - caste system - centralized government | 18 | |
4405382114 | British control of India | 1700's - sepoy rebellion - Indian national congress- Gandhi, Nehru - Muslim league -Indians serve in 2 world wars - 1947 independence and partition - green revolution (grow food for developing nations) | 19 | |
4405382115 | Gupta | 184 bce - Hindu temples - carving gods - Buddhist shrines - golden ages of Hinduism - shandra Gupta - pi , concept of zero - small pox vaccine, medicine, surgery - sati -caste system - centralized - fell: attack of white Huns | 20 | |
4405382116 | Heian period | 794 ce - golden age in pre modern Japanese history - contact wth Chinese (early) - centralized | 21 | |
4405382117 | Mughal dynasty | - 1526 ce -gunpowder empire - Babur- conquered India - Akbar the great: - denealahi- worship emperor - revoked jizya - married Hindu princess - unify Hindu and Muslim shah JahAn- Taj Mahal tomb - Aurangzeb: -brought back jizya - persecuted Hindus - akbars grandson Fall of empire: British as a colony | 22 | |
4405382118 | Ghana | 500 ce - koumbi saleh- capital - west Africa - trans Sahara trade route (Islam) - major supplier of gold - fall- too many people to feed | 23 | |
4405382119 | Mali | 1235 ce - centralized - manse musa - Timbuktu- capital - west Africa - trans Sahara trade - djenne- city along trade routes - sundiata- story how 1st emperor came to power | 24 | |
4405382120 | Songhai | 1400's - trans Sahara trade- Islam - most famous ruler- Askia Mohammed - Timbuktu - centralized- complex bureaucracy - Sunni Ali- first ruler of empire (combined Islam and animism) - fall- civil wars/revolts | 25 | |
4405382121 | Kongo | 1400's - central Africa - King Afonso and Portuguese - Christianity - economy- ivory, cloth, pottery, metal | 26 | |
4405382122 | Ashanti | 1600's - slave trade (for guns) - west Africa - Osei kojo- built a military - threaten European outposts and trade routes on Gold Coast - fall- series of wars against the British | 27 | |
4409990400 | Umayyad caliphate | 661 ce - hereditary monarchy - government in Damascus - spread Islam the most outside Arabian peninsula - bureaucracy -Arabic language -fall- overthrown by Abbasids - dome of the rock | 28 | |
4409990401 | Abbasid caliphate | - 750 ce - golden age of Islam - capital Baghdad -dar al Islam -"all under Islam" - house of wisdom - Persian and Greek texts translated into Arabic - geometric shapes -fall- Mongols overthrew them -mathematics- concept of zero - science - Roman and Greek learning - 1001 Knights -Universities - surgery | 29 | |
4417419666 | Greece and Rome | - 8000-600 ce Athens- democracy -Sparta- military - city states- polis(decentralized because of geography) - Alexander the Great- Hellenism - Greeks and Rome trade (Mediterranean) -olympics, plays, philosophy (Greeks) - aqueducts and Colosseums (Rome) - fight - peace- fight - Roman roads- centralized - fall of Rome: barbarians (decline in trade and learning but Christianity continues) | 30 | |
4417419667 | Dark and Middle Ages | - 600ce - 1450ce - feudalism -manoralism( economic center around manor) - Holy Roman Empire- Charlemagne- Germanic King (defend Christianity) - stop spread of Islam into Europe -Spain: Muslim occupy Spain (Córdoba) - Vikings - crusades(1096) - Renaissance - great schism- Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church split - Christianity and feudalism continuity | 31 | |
4417419668 | Age of absolutism | 1450ce- 1750ce -Spanish kick out Muslim and Jews (reconquista) - Ferdinand and Isabella send explorers: Columbus, Cortez,Vasco de gama - Columbian exchange (change) - Renaissance( continuity) - Catholicism - Protestant reformation - science revolutions - age of enlightment - mercantilism | 32 | |
4417419669 | Industrial Age/ age of revolutions/ imperialism | - 1750 ce- 1914ce - French Revolution - Neapolitan - congress of Vienna - reunification of Germany and Italy (Germany and socialism) - industrial revolution - urbanization imperialism (social Darwinism) - abolition of the slave trade - indentured servants - continuity: woman can't vote, Christianity - change: power comes to Europe | 33 | |
4417473205 | Modern times Western Europe | 1914- present - world wars - Great Depression - European Union (euro currency) - Berlin Wall - Cold War (iron curtain) - racism (continuity) - holocaust - Internet - migration (continuity) - globalization | 34 | |
4419578430 | Byzantine empire 8000-600 ce | 8000-600 ce -carried on Greek, Roman and Christianity - taught the Russians Greek alphabet - Constantinople- was a capital for trade - Hagia Sophia was built - procopius- wrote 2 books: 1) how nice Justinian was 2) how he was cruel, mean and his wife Theodora was a slut | 35 | |
4419578431 | Byzantine empire 600-1450 ce | 600-1450 ce - crusades against the Seljuk Turks (1096) - serfdom - fur trade/ Timur (wood) - continuities: Eastern Orthodox Church and trade networks | 36 | |
4419578432 | Fall of Byzantine empire | 1450-1750 ce - 1453 Byzantine empire falls to the ottomans - ottomans were in full power but decline because they fall behind in technology - serfdom in Russia (continuity) - Islamic empire - middlemen of trade - potatoes (change in people's diets) | 37 | |
4419578433 | Russia | - 1750- 1914 ce - czar (continuity) - pugrums - attack Jews - Jews leave because of antisemitism - Russo Japanese war 1904 -Cremean wars (ottomans+ Russia fight for land) (1853) - Bloody Sunday- czar soldiers shoot people - surfs freed in Russia 1861 - industrialization: rail roads - no middle class!(Romanov rule) | 38 | |
4419592609 | Modern times Eastern Europe | 1914- present - fall of communism - Warsaw pack (between communists) - attempts for democracy - ethnic conflict (continuity) - end of Romanov dynasty - effected by world wars | 39 | |
4439097618 | Russian revolution causes | Bolsheviks wanted to overthrow czar Nicholas the second. The head of the revolution is Lenin Causes: Russo Japanese war, Bloody Sunday, Crimean war, many years of czarist rule and he didn't care about the people, world war 1, Spanish flu, lack of middle class, poverty and bad working conditions , pugrums | 40 | |
4439097619 | Russian revolution | Effects: Russia becomes communist, Russia pulls out of World War One, monarchy removed and communist replaces it, Cold War- period of tent ion between Soviet Union and Americans, Poland is created, new voting laws, the great purge by Stalin | 41 | |
4439097620 | Chinese revolution | Mao Zedong- leads peasants and promises land reform, five year plans, great leap foward- boost agriculture, communist, sayings in the little red book, formed teen guards to catch whoever was against him, the cultural revolution- targeted enemies of communists in China, one party communist totalitarian state. | 42 | |
4439097621 | Decolonization Kenya in east Africa | - mau mau - terrorist nationalist group and bloody campaign against British rule - British are pressured and give independence in 1963 | 43 | |
4439097622 | Decolonization Morocco in North Africa | -divided under French and Spanish rule in 1912 - rebel throughout 1920's and 1930's - was an area of heavy fighting in world war 2 - French pressured and withdraw in 1955 and independence in 1956 - Spanish withdrew in 1969 | 44 | |
4439097623 | Decolonization Belgian Congo in central Africa | - remove King leopard the seconds control because the Belgians killed many people working in the rubber plantations - education becomes reformed - Belgians are pressure from violence and give independence in 1960 | 45 | |
4439097624 | Decolonization Ghana in west Africa | - strikes, and protests by nationalists - British policy of gradual independence - British give constitution but in control of foreign policy, defense, the economy and law - British are pressure and give independence in 1957 | 46 | |
4439097625 | Decolonization Persian gulf states in Middle East | - British withdrew in 1961 because the cost of defense | 47 | |
4439097626 | Decolonization burma in south east Asia | - made a crown colony in 1938 - sided with British in world war 2 - independence in 1948 | 48 | |
4439097627 | Decolonization Vietnam in south east Asia | - occupied by the Japanese in world war 2 - Declaration of Independence in 1945 - reoccupation by France - French- Indochinese war - communist north Vietnam declared in 1976 | 49 | |
4442123603 | Inca empire European conquest 1532 | - Pizarro was a swine herd, - Andes mountains - inca empire -when reached new world people thought incas were gods with pots on their heads, and wool on their faces (part human part beast) - horses- heneta in Europe - llamas in incas (never used for work only ppl were) -adhualpa- living god (in cahamalka) - he sends presents to conquistadors -80,000 incas ready for war168 conquistadors - swords: longer and stronger (used for a dress sword) - pizzaro uses Cortez's ways of attacking by reading his books - adhualpa told soldiers don't have weapons with the Spanish -pizzaro sends out his priests to first try to convert incas after adhualpa throws the bible on the ground they surprise attack on the incas | 50 | |
4447396440 | 900 ce maya | - calendar - polytheistic - temples - abandon cities - safisticated - human sacrifice - glyphs - scientifically advanced - Stela- sculptures monuments with images of nobles rulers or gods -mathematics - astronomers - invented chocolate - concept of zero | 51 | |
4447396441 | Incas | 1100s Cuzco capital - Manchu picchu -city in mountains for emperor - road system - messengers - sacrificed children to gods - terrace farming - skilled metalworkers - medical achievements- surgery,anesthesia | 52 | |
4447396442 | Aztec 1400-1500 | - tenochtitlan - great temple city center 2 shrines rain and sun gods - built chinampas - canals - fierce fighters - 5-6 million people most farmers - polytheistic - sacrifices children to gods | 53 |
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