Time Period Characteristics Flashcards

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