Thematic Approach
Beginning to 4000 BCE
Kingdoms and Innovations
4000-1000
4000-1000
An Age of Empires and
Interaction: 1000 BCE - 300 CE
Interaction: 1000 BCE - 300 CE
A World of
Changes: 300 CE-1750 CE
Changes: 300 CE-1750 CE
100
This refers to ways in which the peoples of the world have been drawn together by historical factors.
What is Integration?
100
Apes that went on to become modern humans
What were hominins?
100
people who lived off the livestock they herded and often came into their local city-state to trade.
Who were pastoral nomads?
100
The largest empires were the Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Empire.
What were the largest empires?
100
a time when thought and society became more secular, or non-religious
What is the Enlightenment?
200
The way people and the area around them relate to each other.
Human-Environment Interaction
200
Africa’s climate got worse about 160,000 years ago
Why did some modern humans leave Africa?
200
when writing was invented
Why did the pace of historical change in certain parts of the world begin to speed up?
200
What is The Pantheon?
200
476
When did the Western Roman Empire collapsed and a number of small kingdoms took its place.
300
Groups of people are doing well and making advancements in society.
What is Rise of Civilizations?
300
cave painting, old weapons, buildings
What kinds of evidence help scientists learn about our ancient ancestors?
300
these rulers taxed people from both cities and rural areas to pay for bureaucracies, armies, irrigation works, and architecture.
Why were some people taxed by their rulers or monarchs?
300
Land and Sea
What were the two routes of the Silk Road?
300
300 C.E.
When were the Romans facing trouble?
400
human-environment interaction, rise of civilizations, growth and changes in societies, development of political institutions and ideas, belief systems, and interconnectedness of societies.
What are the 6 themes in world history?
400
because they did not need to hunt as much and they had more free time.
What new innovations and inventions resulted from humans beginning to farm?
400
these rulers taxed people from both cities and rural areas to pay for bureaucracies, armies, irrigation works, and architecture.
Why were some people taxed by their rulers or monarchs?
400
Trade, spread ideas, and religion.
What was the Silk Road used for?
400
Europe experienced its own renaissance in the 15th to 16th centuries.
What happened as civilizations across the world continued to develop?
500
• the development of trade networks
• the improvement of the written language
• artistic and architectural advancements
• the unification of smaller states
• the prominence of patriarchal societies
What evidence remains of the success of these civilizations?
500
about two million years ago, driven by population gains and increased competition for food. Additionally, they began to farm, which led to new inventions and innovations.
Why did Early humans moved across the Earth and most continents?
500
These warring societies were sometimes ruled by monarchies that had vastly expanded their control over agricultural regions. Those who were not ruled by these monarchies may have remained in small villages or lived as hunter-gatherers or pastoral nomads.
What did war break out between the farmers and the monarchies?
500
The Silk Road’s land and sea routes created a huge web of trade routes that connected empires across the Eastern Hemisphere.
What was the Silk Road?
500
This period was notable for how places exchanged ideas and goods through trade. However, it was also marked by the spread of devastating war and enslavement across continents. Along with the development of the Enlightenment, these events, ideas, and other ways of understanding the past continue to have an impact around the world today.
What major changes that took place across the world from 300 to 1750 C.E.?