Period 1 Technological & Environmental Transformation up to 600 BCE
Period 2 Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies 600 BCE-600 CE
Period 3 Regional & Transregional Interactions 600 - 1450 CE
Period 4 Global Interactions 1450 - 1750
Period 5 Industrialization & Global Integration 1750 - 1900
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The establishment of sedentary farming villages.
What was a major effect of the Neolithic Revolution?
100
Oracle bones, Daoism, and the Mandate of Heaven characterize this early civilization.
What is China?
100
The result of the Mongol invasions of Russia.
What is the Russians were cut off from most of western Europe?
100
Decline in religious unity in Europe was a direct result of this movement that criticized the selling of indulgences by Catholic priests.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
100
This conflict resulted in the Treaty on Nanking, British control of Hong Kong, and sphere of influence in China.
What is the Opium War?
200
The geographic feature that had the greatest impact on the establishment of early civilizations.
What are river valleys?
200
Fasting during Ramadan, the Hajj, and alms characterize this religion.
What is Islam?
200
A blending of Christian beliefs, with Greek art & philosophy, an extension of Roman engineering achievements, and the preservation of literature and science texts, characterize this empire.
What is Byzantium?
200
In colonial Spanish America, this system was developed to support plantation agriculture.
What is the economienda system?
200
The principles of this philosophy support the idea that the proletariat (working class) must replace the bourgeois (business owners) by violent revolution to create a "classless society".
What is communism?
300
In India, Bangladesh, and much of Southeast Asia, agricultural productivity is most affected by these.
What are seasonal monsoons?
300
The most important contribution of the Greek city-state of Athens.
What is development of direct democracy?
300
A result of Zheng He's voyages of exploratio to Arabia and the east coast of Africa.
What is Chinese merchants began trading with Africa?
300
During this transitional time period, Europeans changed their thinking about the role of government.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
The cause of mass migration from Ireland in the 1840s.
What is potato famine?
400
The contribution of the Bantu migration that has had the greatest impact on the development of modern Africa.
What is the spread of languages?
400
The belief system that was the basis for the civil service exams given during the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties.
What is Confucianism?
400
Knowledge of astronomy was used by Muslims to fulfill religious obligations and was one achievement of this time period in Muslim history.
What was the Islamic Golden Age?
400
Resulted in principles of limited government bbeing established in England (1688).
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
An effect of Europeans seeking markets for their manufactured goods.
What is imperialism?
500
The cause of the development of many small independent Greek city-states.
What is the (geography) mountainous terrain caused separate settlements to develop?
500
Creation of colorful murals in the Ajanta caves, development of a decimal system and the concept of zero, and trade with Persia and East Africa occurred during this Indian dynasty.
What is the Gupta Empire?
500
Religious tolerance in this region of Spain encouraged the growth of a rich and diverse culture.
What is Muslim Spain (Al-Andalus) on the Iberian Peninsula?
500
Council of Trent, Society of Jesus, and the Inquisition were results of this movement.
What is the Catholic Counter-Reformation?
500
The appointment of Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor, the Austro-Prussian War 1866, and the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1 let to this.