Eary Civ
Early Civ II
Post Classical
Middle Ages
No Unit Civ
100

Simple stone tools

Cave Art

Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers

Old Stone Age

Developed Fire & Oral Lang

Paleolithic Era

100

Royal Road

Empire in Fertile Crescent

Treated captured peoples fairly

Zoroastrianism

War with Athens/Sparta

Persia

100

Eastern half of the Roman Empire

Capital of Constantinople

Emperor Justinian

Hagia Sophia –  Church with dome

Orthodox Christianity

Byzantine Empire

100

Nomadic warriors

Genghis Khan

Conquered most of Asia 

& Russia

Mongols
100

A group of islands (archipelago ) East Asia

Shinto

Zen Buddhism

Influenced by China and Korea

Japan

200

Indus and Ganges Rivers

Protected by the Himalayas

Invaded by Aryans

Hinduism

Buddhism

Influenced Southeast Asia

India

200

Built Pyramids as tombs

Located on Nile River

Hieroglyphics 

Pharaohs

Theocracy

Egypt

200

Mecca & Medina

Prophet Muhammed

Qur’an

Five Pillars

Spread to North Africa

Islamic Empire

200

“Barbarians”

Norsemen

Scandinavia

Reach Iceland/Russia

Used ships

Vikings

200

Built Pyramids for rituals

Central Mexico

Empire/Emperor

Economy based on agriculture

Advances in mathematics

Tenochtitlan

Aztecs 

300

Domestication of Plants & Animals

New Stone Age

Complex stone tools

Settled permanent communities

Weaving and pottery

Neolithic Era

300

Sumer and Babylon

Fertile Crescent

Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

Hammurabi’s Code

Cuneiform

Mesopotamia

300

Muslim nations

Traded gold and salt across the Sahara

City of Timbuktu

Located on Niger River

Ghana, Mali, Songhai
300

Frankish Kingdoms

Charles Martel – Battle of Tours

Hugh Capet – Paris

Hundred Years’ war

Joan of Arc

France

300

Built Pyramids

Mexico and Central America

City-states with trade

Economy based on agriculture

Advances in mathematics

Chichén Itzá

Mayans

400

Monotheism

Jordan River/Canaan/Israel

Torah

Abraham

Moses

10 Commandments

Hebrews

400

Silk Road/ Porcelain & Paper

Buddhism

Great Wall

Mandate of Heaven

(Huang He) Yellow River Valley

China

400

Influenced by Slavs, Vikings, and Byzantines

City of Kiev

Orthodox Christianity

Ivan the Great

Tsar/Czar

Russia

400

Angles & Saxon invaders

William the Conqueror

Henry II – Common law

King John – Magna Carta

Parliament

Hundred Years’ War

England

400

Ferdinand & Isabella

Expulsion of Jews/Muslim Moors

Empire expanded under Charles V

Spain

500

Alphabet

Major Trading network

Mediterranean  Sea

Shipbuilders/sailors

Colonies

Phoenicians

500

Aegean/Ionian Seas

Persian Wars

Peloponnesian Wars

Polis – Sparta/Athens

Democracy

Parthenon

Greece

500

Christian Kingdom in East Africa

Axum

500

Charlemagne

Unified politics and religion by the Pope of the Catholic Church

Holy Roman Empire

500

Andes Mountains

High altitude farming

Built Roads

Machu Picchu

Empire/Emperor

Incans

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