1. Final Review
EVERYTHING!!!

2. Agricultural Revolution
Fertile Crescent
Sedentary life
Domestication of animals
Surplus of food
Specialization labor
Social stratification
Disease pools
Environmental changes
Urbanization

3. River Valleys
Mesopotamia
Nile
Indus
Yellow

4. Ages… based on tools
Stone
Bronze
Iron

5. Belief Systems The Biggies: Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Judaism
Zoroastrianism
Hellenism
Christianity
Later (622), Islam
Show spread of religions clip.

6. Bronze Age 3000-1200BCE Sumerians Akkadians Old Babylonians Mycenaean
Minoans
Mohenjo Daro and Harappa
Egypt
Nubia
Shang
Zhou
Phoenicians and their alphabet

7. Hammurabi’s Law Code Law code
Consistent set of laws to govern society… first of its kind.
Fair?
Punishments based on class

8. Iron Age Empires
Mediterranean Dark Age at the beginning of the Iron Age… sea people?
Hittites
Neo-Assyrians
Persians
Zhou
Romans
etc

9. Alexander the Great Legacy? Hellenized Persia… How do we know?
Stone pillars, Greek ideas, Greek mythology

10. Classical Age 1000BCE-600CE Rome Han Gupta
Sims: patriarchal systems, agricultural based economies, extensive urbanization, expanding trade, complex governments, territorial expansion, powerful military
Diffs: Belief systems, systems of social stratification, theater state vs. dynasty vs. republic/empire.

11. End of Classical Age Rome falls and…??? Han falls and…???
..but the Eastern Roman Empire remains (Byzantine Empire)
Han falls and…???

12. 600-1450 Mediterranean Trade System weakens. Why?
Rise of Indian Ocean network
Islamic expansion Dar al Islam  Ibn Battuta
Less demand in Europe Germanization of Europe

13. Islam

14. Indian Ocean Trade Trade Diasporas Entrepot Dhows
Spread of IslamIndonesia
Monsoons

15. Other Trade Routes
Silk Road
Trans-Saharan trade network

16. The Americas Olmec- Mother culture Maya- city-states
Aztec- Blood and tribute
Inca- Andes, Mita
Locations, belief systems, trade goods, downfall?

17. In Europe?
Viking Raids by 800
Feudalism
Weakens following Black Death

18. Crusades In Spain? To the Holy Land! Why? Success? Effects?
Diffusion of ideas
Crusader states trade with Fatimid Caliphate
Access to Indian Ocean Trade denied!

19. Mongols Pastoralists Trade Tolerance toward religions Khanates
West converted to Islam (Golden Horde)
Kublai Khan – Yuan (reunites China)
Marco Polo?

20. Effects of the Mongols Diffusion of ??? Pax Mongolica Black Death
Goods
Gunpowder
Tactics
End of the heavy cavalry
Pax Mongolica

21. Black Death Impacts East and West Effects Population decline
Humanism-Aristotle
Advancement in medicine
societies weakened in the Middle East  Rise of gunpowder empires

22. Zheng He (15th Century)

23. Rise of Gunpowder Empires
Safavid- Ishmael, Red Heads, Shia
Ottoman- Sunni, Janissaries, Suleiman, Vienna
Mughal – Akbar, Divine Faith, Taj Mahal, Muslim minority ruling over a Hindu Majority

24. Spain and the New World Columbus’ adventure
Why?
Effects?
Why didn’t the Portuguese send him?
Vasco Da Gama and armed trading in the Indian Ocean

25. Trans-Atlantic Trade System
Columbian Exchange
Effects in Europe and Asia?
Effects in Africa and the Americas?
Sugar, Silver, and Slaves
Changing Labor Systems?

26. Absolutism

27. Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Describe each
Impact of each?
Enlightenment Ideals play a significant role in late 18th century and early 19th century revolutions.

28. Racism, Social Darwinism and Eugenics
When do these appear?
Why?

29. British Imperialism Colonies in the New World Charter Companies
Wars with France
American Revolution…

30. Revolutions 18th – 19th C. The Big Three: American Revolution
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
Similarities and Differences? Go back and review… just in case.

31. Napoleon’s Wars Effects Independence Movements in Latin America
Balance of Power in Europe
The Great Trek
Further British Expansion
British East India Company

32. Industrialization Key Commodity? Cotton!!! Nationalism?
India clothed the world in 1700, but by 1800 the British were in the process of de-industrializing India
How to get into China?
Opium
War
Iron Steam Ships
Nationalism?

33. Industrialization Quandary
Why do we see Industrialization in Britain, Europe and North America but not elsewhere until much later?

34. Imperialism Scramble for Africa Asia Spanish-American War Suez Canal
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Spanish-American War
Suez Canal
Panama Canal

35. 1914-Present Nationalism WWI Spanish Flu Communism in Russia
Treaty of Versailles
Mandate System
Spanish Flu
Communism in Russia
Depression
Rise of Totalitarian Regimes
WWII

36. Post WWII Decolonization Nation Building Cold War
Proxy Wars
Arms Race
Space Race
Containment
Revolutions in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East.
Fall of Soviet Union- New Eastern European States

37. Post Cold War Era Technological Innovations Nuclear non-proliferation
The world is flat
Outsourcing
Free market
Terrorism
Afghanistan and Iraq