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Regional review

• 3500BCE - 1450

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Region
3500-600 BCE
600 BCE AD 600
600-1450
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West Asia/Middle East
3500-600 BCE Mesopotamia Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Persians Phoenicians, Hebrews Egyptians
600 BCE AD 600 Persians (Achaemenid, Sassanid) Roman territories- Byzantine territories
600-1450 Umayyad Abbasid Caliphate Seljuk Turks Mongols Timur - Ottomans
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South Asia
3500-600 Indus Harappa Mohenjo-Daro Indo-European invasions Aryan Vedic Age jana-rajyapada (regional Kingdoms) Hindu Caste foundations
600-600 Alexander the Great Hellenistic Mauryan Empire Gupta Empire
600-1450 Political Fragmentation Delhi Sultanate North (Islam) Hindu Temple Economy Merchant Guilds Indian Ocean Trade
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East Asia
3500-600 BCE Huang He Valley Shang Zhou Warring States period 100 Schools of Thought Mandate 0f Heaven, Dynastic Cycle
600 BCE AD 600 Qin Legalism Shi Huangdi Han ConfucianismSilk Road Daoism private lives Crisis of Late Antiquity -Buddhism
600-1450 Sui unification, Tangwarrior aristocrats, urban, Song technological development Mongol Yuan Dynasty Korea Bridge, Japan - Feudalism
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Eastern Europe
3500-600BCE Minoan, Mycenae Phoenician colonies
600 BCE AD 600 Ancient Greece - Balkans Roman Territories Byzantium -Constantinople Strategic position on straits Byzantine Empire - Justinian Eastern Orthodox Christianity
600-1450 Kiev Cyrillic Alphabet Mongols- Golden Horde Development of modern Russia- Muscovy
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Western Europe
3500-600BCE Phoenician Greek colonies Tiber River Valley Rome Etruscans
600 BCE AD 600 Roman Republic Empire Punic Wars , Mare Nostrum Huns Visigoths, Vandals, Lombards
600-1450 Merovingian, Carolingian-Charlemagne Roman Catholicismpower ,corruption Feudalism (Social, Political) Manorialism High Middle Ages (Crusades) Late Middle Age (Crises)
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Sub-Saharan Africa
3500-600 BCE Bantu Migrations Diffusion of people technology
600 BCE AD 600 Jenne-Jeno innovative site West Africa, Tribalism, Animism Diffusion sites (Kush, Axum- Christian)
600-1450 West Africa Gold for Salt trade Ghana, Mali, Songhai East Africa - Indian Ocean Trading city-state Islam - Swahili
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Americas
Innovative sites No large draft animals Slower Development
Meso-America Olmecs, Mayas, Teotihuacán Slash Burn agriculture Foundation for Aztecs
South America Chavin Cult, Mochica State Mountains Need for interdependence Foundation for Incas