5820366868 | Early humans migrated from East Africa | Period 1 | 0 | |
5820366869 | Discovery of fire | Period 1 | 1 | |
5820367555 | Neolithic Revolution | Period 1 | 2 | |
5820368583 | Mesopotamia ancient river valley civilization | Period 1 | 3 | |
5820371821 | Nile River Valley/Sub-Saharan Africa (Nubia) civilization | Period 1 | 4 | |
5820371822 | Indus River Valley | Period 1 | 5 | |
5820373916 | Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa | Period 1 | 6 | |
5820376313 | Shang Dynasty | Period 1 | 7 | |
5820379442 | Yellow/Huang He River valley civilization | Period 1 | 8 | |
5820380548 | Olmec and Chavín (Mesoamerica and Andes) | Period 1 | 9 | |
5820380549 | Development of Pastoralism | Period 1 | 10 | |
5820382680 | Domestication of crops and animals | Period 1 | 11 | |
5820382681 | Emergence of Agriculture | Period 1 | 12 | |
5820386651 | Surpluses of food (due to emergence of Agriculture) result in first specialization of labor | Period 1 | 13 | |
5820387854 | First developments in metallurgy | Period 1 | 14 | |
5820406760 | Hittites learn how to use iron | Period 1 | 15 | |
5820406761 | Sumerians, Assyrians, Akkadians, Babylonians | Period 1 | 16 | |
5820409840 | Ziggurats, cuneiform | Period 1 | 17 | |
5820412305 | Epic of Gilgamesh, Rig Veda | Period 1 | 18 | |
5820412306 | Development of Zoroastrianism | Period 1 | 19 | |
5820414161 | Codification of Hebrew Scriptures-->Judaism | Period 2 | 20 | |
5820415981 | Emergence of Buddhism from Hinduism | Period 2 | 21 | |
5820415982 | Codification of Hinduism | Period 2 | 22 | |
5820421744 | Emergence of Caste System | Period 2 | 23 | |
5820424314 | Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism emerge (out of Warring States Period) | Period 2 | 24 | |
5820425316 | Persian Empires: Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid | Period 2 | 25 | |
5820425317 | Qin Dynasty | Period 2 | 26 | |
5820426226 | Han Dynasty | Period 2 | 27 | |
5820426235 | Emergence of Civil Service examination | Period 2 | 28 | |
5820426936 | Mauryan and Gupta Empires | Period 2 | 29 | |
5820427556 | Edict of Milan | Period 2 | 30 | |
5820429149 | Classical Greece/Hellenistic influence | Period 2 | 31 | |
5820429150 | Roman Empire | Period 2 | 32 | |
5820430660 | Alexander the Great | Period 2 | 33 | |
5820430661 | Emergence of Eurasian Silk Roads | Period 2 | 34 | |
5820432725 | Emergence of Trans-Saharan caravan routes | Period 2 | 35 | |
5820434243 | New technologies: yokes, saddles, stirrups | Period 2 | 36 | |
5820435169 | New technologies: Lateen sail and Dhow ships | Period 2 | 37 | |
5820435170 | Indian Ocean Sea Lanes: knowledge of monsoon winds | Period 2 | 38 | |
5820443949 | Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, | Period 2 | 39 | |
5820454047 | Codification of Islam | Period 3 | 40 | |
5820455885 | Height of Byzantine civilization | Period 3 | 41 | |
5820458709 | New form of governments: caliphates (Umayyad and Abbasid) | Period 3 | 42 | |
5820460628 | Caesaropapism | Period 3 | 43 | |
5820460629 | Code of Justinian | Period 3 | 44 | |
5820461517 | Theme System (Byzantine) | Period 3 | 45 | |
5820461518 | Sui Dynasty and Grand Canal | Period 3 | 46 | |
5820462686 | Tang Dynasty | Period 3 | 47 | |
5820463928 | Champa rice from Vietnam to Tang China | Period 3 | 48 | |
5820465195 | Taika Reforms | Period 3 | 49 | |
5820465196 | Song Dynasty | Period 3 | 50 | |
5820466583 | Neo-Confucianism | Period 3 | 51 | |
5820467507 | Decentralized Feudalism in Western Europe | Period 3 | 52 | |
5820467508 | Divine right of kings | Period 3 | 53 | |
5820468209 | Crusades | Period 3 | 54 | |
5820468210 | Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta | Period 3 | 55 | |
5820469827 | Establishment of Hanseatic League | Period 3 | 56 | |
5820471474 | Spread of Islam to Sub-Saharan Africa | Period 3 | 57 | |
5820471475 | Mongol Empire (reconnects Silk Roads) | Period 3 | 58 | |
5820475069 | Incas, Aztecs and Mayans | Period 3 | 59 | |
5820497917 | Renaissance | Period 4 | 60 | |
5820500303 | Influential technologies (not necessarily invented in this period): compass, astrolabe, new types of ships | Period 4 | 61 | |
5820501867 | Invention of Printing Press | Period 4 | 62 | |
5820502995 | Protestant Reformation | Period 4 | 63 | |
5820504096 | Counter-Reformation (Catholic Church) | Period 4 | 64 | |
5820504097 | Martin Luther and 95 Theses | Period 4 | 65 | |
5820505084 | Jesuits (Society of Jesus) | Period 4 | 66 | |
5820506270 | Portuguese school of navigation | Period 4 | 67 | |
5820507174 | Emergence of joint-stock companies (EIC and VOC) | Period 4 | 68 | |
5820508128 | Zheng He | Period 4 | 69 | |
5820510132 | Columbus "discovers" Americas | Period 4 | 70 | |
5820511782 | Columbian exchange | Period 4 | 71 | |
5820513060 | First global currency: silver (Pesos de ocho) | Period 4 | 72 | |
5820519225 | Ottoman Empire: Janissaries, Devshirme | Period 4 | 73 | |
5820520133 | Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Empire | Period 4 | 74 | |
5820523360 | Russian Empire: Peter the Great and his reforms | Period 4 | 75 | |
5820526730 | Boyars, Zamindars | Period 4 | 76 | |
5820529212 | Manchus (Qing Dynasty) | Period 4 | 77 | |
5820529227 | Mughal India (emergence) | Period 4 | 78 | |
5820531405 | Shan Jahan | Period 4 | 79 | |
5820534522 | Akbar the Great | Period 4 | 80 | |
5820537300 | Emergence of Sikhism | Period 4 | 81 | |
5820539398 | Portuguese: Indian Ocean trading post empire | Period 4 | 82 | |
5820541210 | Chattel slavery, encomienda, hacienda, mita systems | Period 4 | 83 | |
5820544357 | Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattos, Native Americans, Africans | Period 4 | 84 | |
5820545949 | Thirty-Years War (role of French) | Period 4 | 85 | |
5820549487 | Dutch and British competition over spice trade in Indian Ocean | Period 4 | 86 | |
5820549488 | Taj Majal | Period 4 | 87 | |
5820552473 | Significant role of gunpowder in empire dominance | Period 4 | 88 | |
5820554471 | Spread of literacy | Period 4 | 89 | |
5820558776 | Enlightenment | Period 5 | 90 | |
5820558777 | American Revolution | Period 5 | 91 | |
5820559784 | Declaration of Independence | Period 5 | 92 | |
5820559785 | French Revolution | Period 5 | 93 | |
5820560918 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | Period 5 | 94 | |
5820562470 | The idea of a nation-->nationalism | Period 5 | 95 | |
5820566177 | Napoleonic Wars | Period 5 | 96 | |
5820568423 | Haitian Revolution | Period 5 | 97 | |
5820572314 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | Period 5 | 98 | |
5820575855 | Simon Bolivar | Period 5 | 99 | |
5820575856 | Jamaica Letter | Period 5 | 100 | |
5820576877 | Latin American independence movements | Period 5 | 101 | |
5820576903 | Father Hidalgo | Period 5 | 102 | |
5820578606 | Industrial Revolution | Period 5 | 103 | |
5820579637 | Liberalism (John Stuart Mill) | Period 5 | 104 | |
5820580943 | Capitalism (Adam Smith) | Period 5 | 105 | |
5820582057 | Invention of steam engine | Period 5 | 106 | |
5820583952 | Second Industrial Revolution: electricity and copper mining | Period 5 | 107 | |
5820585413 | Banana Republics | Period 5 | 108 | |
5820586392 | Prominence of nuclear family | Period 5 | 109 | |
5820586393 | Urban migrations | Period 5 | 110 | |
5820587461 | John Snow in London | Period 5 | 111 | |
5820590008 | Resistance to industrialization: Qing and Ottoman | Period 5 | 112 | |
5820590876 | Imperialism | Period 5 | 113 | |
5820590877 | Social Darwinism | Period 5 | 114 | |
5820590878 | Scientific Racism | Period 5 | 115 | |
5820591912 | Opium Wars | Period 5 | 116 | |
5820593352 | Industrial nations exploited people for raw materials | Period 5 | 117 | |
5820594141 | Berlin Conference | Period 5 | 118 | |
5820594142 | Congress of Vienna | Period 5 | 119 | |
5820595089 | Scramble for Africa | Period 5 | 120 | |
5820597808 | Emergence of settler colonies in Algeria by French | Period 5 | 121 | |
5820598923 | Marathas challenge Mughal rule | Period 5 | 122 | |
5820598924 | Sepoy Rebellion | Period 5 | 123 | |
5820601416 | Millenarianism | Period 5 | 124 | |
5820601417 | Xhosa Cattle killing movement | Period 5 | 125 | |
5820602389 | Tanzimat reforms | Period 5 | 126 | |
5820603781 | Taiping Rebellion | Period 5 | 127 | |
5820605222 | Boxer Rebellion | Period 5 | 128 | |
5820606014 | Self-strengthening movement (China) | Period 5 | 129 | |
5820606015 | Crimean War | Period 5 | 130 | |
5820607063 | Emancipation of serfs | Period 5 | 131 | |
5820609218 | Communism (Karl Marx) | Period 5 | 132 | |
5820609219 | Meiji Japan | Period 5 | 133 | |
5820610411 | Sino-Japanese War | Period 5 | 134 | |
5820611543 | Russo-Japanese War | Period 5 | 135 | |
5820613408 | "The White Man's Burden" | Period 5 | 136 | |
5820613409 | Matthew Perry | Period 5 | 137 | |
5820618123 | U.S. Civil War (and effects on Egypt) | Period 5 | 138 | |
5820622048 | Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Montesquieu | Period 5 | 139 | |
5820626225 | Trench warfare | Period 6 | 140 | |
5820626226 | Invention of machine gun | Period 6 | 141 | |
5820627257 | World War I | Period 6 | 142 | |
5820628422 | Battle of the Somme | Period 6 | 143 | |
5820629551 | Bolshevik Revolution | Period 6 | 144 | |
5820631222 | Wilson's 14 points | Period 6 | 145 | |
5820631223 | League of Nations | Period 6 | 146 | |
5820633544 | Women's suffrage | Period 6 | 147 | |
5820633545 | Collapse of Ottoman Empire | Period 6 | 148 | |
5820636863 | Division of the Middle East (Jews vs Muslims) | Period 6 | 149 | |
5820636865 | Religious fundamentalist movements | Period 6 | 150 | |
5820637673 | Vladimir Lenin | Period 6 | 151 | |
5820638985 | Theory of Relativity | Period 6 | 152 | |
5820641647 | Significant impact of technologies: telegraph, railroad | Period 6 | 153 | |
5820643632 | Great Depression | Period 6 | 154 | |
5820643633 | New Deal | Period 6 | 155 | |
5820643634 | Fascism | Period 6 | 156 | |
5820644813 | Mohandas Gandhi | Period 6 | 157 | |
5820644814 | Ho Chi Minh | Period 6 | 158 | |
5820647392 | Invention of airplanes | Period 6 | 159 | |
5820648597 | Use of atomic bombs | Period 6 | 160 | |
5820648598 | The United Nations | Period 6 | 161 | |
5820648599 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Period 6 | 162 | |
5820653491 | Cold War | Period 6 | 163 | |
5820653492 | Korean War | Period 6 | 164 | |
5820653493 | Vietnam War | Period 6 | 165 | |
5820655482 | Pan-Arabism, Pan-Africanism | Period 6 | 166 | |
5820655484 | Independence of India | Period 6 | 167 | |
5820656591 | Rise of al Qaeda | Period 6 | 168 | |
5820658212 | Containment doctrine | Period 6 | 169 | |
5820662640 | Governments sponsored organizations to spread free market: IMF, World Bank, WTO | Period 6 | 170 | |
5820664056 | UNICEF, Red Cross, Amnesty Int. | Period 6 | 171 | |
5820664057 | EU, NAFTA, ASEAN | Period 6 | 172 | |
5820667661 | Medical advancements: antibiotics, heart transplants, etc. | Period 6 | 173 | |
5820667662 | Green Revolution | Period 6 | 174 | |
5820669867 | New resources and environmental problems | Period 6 | 175 | |
5820669868 | Baby Boom | Period 6 | 176 | |
5820671508 | Civil Rights Movement | Period 6 | 177 | |
5820675569 | Allies (U.S. Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, etc.) vs Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) | Period 6 | 178 | |
5820683429 | Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire) vs Allies (Serbia, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy, U.S.) | Period 6 | 179 |
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