Thematic Approach
Beginnings to 4000 BCE
Kingdoms and Innovations 4000-1000 BCE
An Age of Empires and Interactions 1000 BCE- 300 CE
A World of Changes
300 - 1750 CE
100

What did historians use themes for?

What is to identify patterns in history?

100

Early humans moved across the Earth about how many years ago?

What is about 2 million years ago?

100

City-states were often ruled by...

What is kings and sometimes queens?

100

New empires became much more efficient at controlling people’s...

What is lives, habits, and gathering taxes?

100

What continent did Christianity spread across rapidly? 

What is Europe?

200

Many communities developed into early...

What is city-states?

200

How many years ago did the Great Ape family split into apes and monkeys?

What is about 25,000 years ago? 

200

Sometimes wars broke out between...

What is urban and rural societies?

200

Why was metal money created?

What is it helped interactions among ancient people?

200

What did the Aztec and Incas build?

What is complex systems, cities, and advanced infrastructure?

300

Belief systems often brought...

What is great social and political changes?

300

Natural resources were worth defending from invaders because...

What is access to resources led to increased probability of survival?

300

What were people called who lived off the livestock that they herded?

What is pastoral nomads?

300

What did the Silk Road's land and sea routes create?

What is a web connecting empires across the Eastern Hemisphere?

300

Islam created conflicts with other regions, which led to...

What is the golden age?

400

The way in which people have organized and governed themselves says...

What is a great deal about human society?

400

Modern humans are derived from what group of apes?

What is hominins?

400

Pastoral nomadism allowed humans to...

What is adapt to climate in large numbers by relocating when farmland was poor?

400

The Romans controlled which entire sea?

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

400

The Tang and Song dynasties in China restored what style of government?

What is Han style?

500

What are the six themes in world history?

What is human-environmental interaction, rise of civilizations, growth and changes in societies, development of political institutions and ideas, belief systems, and interconnectedness of societies?

500

What are the 3 types of today's apes?

What is Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and Gorilla's?

500

Name two inventions or ideas created between 4000 - 1000 B.C.E?

What is the wheel, writing, metal working, codes of law, mathematics, and astronomy?

500

What are the two largest empires?

What is the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire?

500

Which period is known as a time when thought and society became more secular, or non-religious?

What is Enlightenment?

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