Tom White, Nikitha Lattupally, Matt Massaro, Jessica Thomas

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Foundations of World History 8000 B.C.E. to 600
C.E.

• Tom White, Nikitha Lattupally, Matt Massaro,
  Jessica Thomas

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Geographic Ranges

• Mesopotamia
• Egypt
• Indus (India)
• Shang (China)
• Mesoamerica
• Andean South America

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Geographical Maps
The map shows the geographical range during
Alexander Empire and the Hellenistic World.
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Geographical Maps
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8000 B.C.E.-The Current Era
8500-3500-Development of farming in Middle
East-Agricultural Revolution
2500-1750 Babylonian Empire in Middle East
2000-1500-Decline of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt,
civil war
5000-2000 Age of innovation in Middle East
writing, bronze, metalworking, wheel, plow
5000 Domestication of maize in Mesoamerica
3100 Rise of Egyptian civilization
2500-1500-India civilization in South Asia

• 2000-1000-Greeks begin to settle along the
  Mediterranean

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8000 B.C.E.- The Current Era
Greek defeat of Persia spread of Athenian Empire
1760-1122 Shang Dynasty in China
Growth of empire in Egypt
753 Rome is founded
431-404 Peloponnesian Wars
500 Greek War against Persians

1029 - 258
Zhou dynasty
1750 Persia begins to expand its powerbase
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1 C.E. to 600 C.E.
527-565 Justinian, Eastern Emperor
476 Last Roman emperor deposed, fall of Rome
313 Conversion of Emperor
Constantine to Christianity
146 Roman conquest of Greece
30 Crucifixion of Christ
330 Capital
of Roman Empire moved to Constantinople
390 Rome Sacked by Gauls
589-618 Sui dynasty in China
319-540 Gupta Empire
300-400 Invasion of
Europe by the Germanic tribes
27 Official beginning of the Roman Empire
395 Roman Empire
divided into two halves, the Western half-
Byzantine and the Eastern half
335 Rise of Alexander the Great-
Hellenistic period
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Key Vocabulary
Metalworking Domestication Pastoralist
Irrigation Neolithic Revolution Settled
agriculture
Shifting cultivation Migratory farmers Nomadic
pastoralism Centralized rule Decentralized rule
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Key People

• Gautama Buddha 563 to 483 B.C.E.
• Religious leader

Jesus

• Confucius 551-478 B.C.E.
• Chinese philosopher
• influential

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Key People

• Justinian
• Eastern Roman Emperor
• Project to restore the empire

• Alexander the Great 356-323 B.C.E
• successful ancient Greek military commander

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Key People

• Abraham
• Christian, Jewish, and Islamic religions
• Father of the people of Israel

• Sargon
• Created an empire
• Founder of Akkad Dynasty

• Trajan
• Roman emperor, 98-117

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Key People

• Cyrus
• Founder of the Persian empire
• Father of Iran

• Hammurabi
• First king of the Babylonian empire
• Wrote a set of codes

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Key People

• Emperor Wu of Han
• 7th emperor of Han dynasty
• Territorial expansion

• Ashoka the Great
• Indian emperor
• Buddhist

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Major Developments

• Transition of agriculture
• Irrigation systems
• Introduction of religions
• calendars, pottery containers, baskets,
  storehouses, weaving
• introduction of bronze, metalworking
• Feudalism
• Slavery
• Iron-plows, weapons
• Social classes
• Artisan classes
• Settled agriculture

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Major Developments

• Political hierarchies
• Trading networks
• Conversion to agriculture in northern Europe,
  Southern Africa
• Writing was developed in China
• Cultivation of maize, potatoes, domestication of
  turkey and dogs
• China began to build the Great Wall of China
• Invention of paper and the compass
• Root crops were introduced to Southern Africa
  through trade
• Porcelain developed in China
• Universities were established in India