Ancient Era
The introduction of this led to food surplus, an increase in population, and the beginning of permanent settlements.
Agriculture
This Classical era empire, starting in a small coastal village in Italy, conquered much of Europe and the middle east.
Rome
This new religion helped to spread trade and the five pillars through its holy text: The Quran
Islam
This explorer crossed the Atlantic in 1492, in search of spices. But found something much more valuable... The Americas.
Christopher Columbus
This early America stone tool was used to hunt.
Clovis point
This early civilization, built on the Nile river, is remembered for its hieroglyphs, pharaohs, and giant pyramids
Egypt
This overland trade route specialized in luxury goods and connected parts of Asia, the middle east and Europe.
Silk Road
This West African King was considered the richest man in the world, and became famous for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mansa Musa
This South American system of coerced labor was structured around European Feudalism, and forced Indigenous Americans to work for Spanish imperialists.
Encomienda
This exam gave citizens the ability to become bureaucrats, and offered social mobility to lower classes.
Civil service exam
This period of low temperatures created new land bridges and allowed for humans to migrate into new places.
Ice Age
This man, born a Jewish peasant in Jerusalem, went on to found the largest monotheistic religion in the world.
Jesus Christ
This resilient crop, imported from Vietnam, allowed populations in East Asia to sore.
Champa Rice
This silver deposit, located in modern day Bolivia, greatly increased Spanish wealth and led to an increase in coerced labor for indigenous Americans
Potosi
This set of rock pillar edicts, installed by the emperor of the Mauryan empire in the 3rd century BCE, were an early form of communication between leaders and their people.
Pillars of Ashoka
The earliest examples of these were used by humans to build, hunt, and butcher animals.
Stone tools.
This Indian religion, which promoted ideas of karma and reincarnation, spread quickly into other parts of Asia.
Buddhism
This medieval, Western European, political system had lords, knights, and peasants, who were bound to work land.
Feudalism
This disease was responsible for the death of many indigenous Americans, due in large part to their lack of immunity.
Smallpox
This language is a mix of African language structure and Arabic text, showing the impact of Muslim traders on Africa.
Swahili
These geographic features were located next to all early civilizations and allowed easy access to travel and other key requirements for survival.
Rivers.
This empire lasted 400 years and used Confucianism to bring stability to East Asia, leading to population growth and increased trade.
Han
This empire, led by Genghis Khan, conquered the majority of Afro Eurasia in a span of less than 25 years.
Mongol
This section of the Atlantic system was the deadliest, and transported enslaved people from west Africa to the Americas.
Middle Passage
This messenger system allowed word to spread quickly around the vast Mongol empire
Yam