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2. Snapshot of the World to 600 C.E.
Early Japan:
Europe:
Early China:
Mesoamerican Civilizations:
Middle East:
India:
Greece and Rome:
Byzantine Empire:
Africa:

3. Snapshot of the World to 600 C.E.
Europe: Polytheistic/change to Christianity during control by Roman Empire until its fall. Dark ages: feudalism and isolation due to the fall of the Roman Empire (476); regional kingdoms run by nomadic invaders with Christianity growing more powerful. Knowledge lost except where recorded in monasteries; women worked as peasants, but nobles were secluded and had no economic or political control; Vikings begin raids;
Japan: Tribal structure with chiefdoms from 200 CE. Shinto religion (animist), traditional Japanese culture with little Chinese influence, probably trade with mainland; experts at agriculture and fishing; tattoos to indicate social class; iron technology; 400 CE: Korean scribes brought writing; natural cultural unity due to island isolation
Early China: Shang, Zhou, Chin, Han. Early bureaucracy with divine emperor who ruled by the Mandate of Heaven. Oracle bones. Confucianism makes attempts to create wise civil workers. Qin Shihuangdi burns books, buries scholars, introduces legalism. Daoism encourages meditation on nature.
Mesoamerican Civilizations: Heirs to Olmec culture ( BCE) who brought corn, domestication, specialization; Mexico’s Yucatan; Small warring city-kingdoms; polytheistic (sacrifices and blood-letting); nobility/warrior/priests, peasants, slaves; agricultural (maize, beans, cotton, cacao); elaborate calendar (365 ¼ days, world ends 12/23/2012); hieroglyphic writing, zero, pyramids, terraced agriculture
Middle East:Nomadic Bedouin camel nomads with animistic/polytheistic beliefs; clan rivalries; Muhammed was from Umayyad Clan and united them; transformed the kaaba from a polytheistic idol worshipping place into a monotheistic shrine. Zoroastrianism in Persia
India: Aryan invaders from the central Asian steppes invade from the north and create caste system/Hindu religion with pantheon of gods. Mauryan and Gupta Empires. India’s golden age. Hinduism, Buddhism develop. Women’s status is low (sati, female infanticide)
Byzantine Empire: Highly bureaucratic, divine emperor, spies, rigid class structure; Rome moved east to Constantinople; trouble with Turks, trade-based and agricultural economies; Constantine, Justinian and Theodora, women held throne at times (Theodora and Zoe); preserved Greek tradition and language; Eastern Orthodox religion (Hagia Sophia, icons); Art: mosaics, icons, Kievan Rus, Moscow, Cyrillic language/ alphabet, Greek Fire, where East meets West; fell to the Ottoman Turks
Greece and Rome: 800 BCE – 476 CE; Wars with Persia, Rome; Republic to Empire (Julius Caesar); Greece: democracy (Pericles), oligarchy, monarchy, tyrrany (politics), farming (slaves used widely), citizens’ duty, philosophy, Athens v. Sparta (Peloponnesian Wars); Hellenic culture (Alexander the Great – Hellenistic); Religion: pantheon of Gods (from Aryans); science: Greeks are theorists; Romans are engineers; Colonies in Mediterranean region
Africa: hard iron technology; widespread trade; Egypt; Bantu language spread (along with farming and culture); Ghana begins in 200 CE; growth of Nubian state

4. Snapshot of the World 600 - 1450 Feudal Europe: Feudal Japan:
American Civilizations: Pre-Columbian
MAYA
AZTEC
INCA
Song Empire:
Abbasid Caliphate:
Byzantine Empire:
Delhi Sultanate:
Ghana and Mali:
Mongol (Yuan Dynasty) Empire: 1200s – 1300s

5. Feudal Europe: Crusades. Europe meets East
Feudal Europe: Crusades! Europe meets East! 1215: King John signs Magna Carta – beginnings of representative govt.; King, nobles, vassals, knights, serfs; feudalism (politics), manorialism (economics); Gothic architecture, 3-field system; Church v. state (lay investiture); Charles Martel halted Muslims at Tours; Thomas Aquinas tried to combine faith and reason – scholasticism (Aristotle relearned from Muslims in Crusades); Women – local commerce, guilds, less segregation in church; East/West split
Feudal Japan: ( ) TAIKA( ), NARA ( ), HEIAN ( ) Ultra-civilized; puppet emperor controlled by Shogun>Daimyo>Samurai>Peasants. Bushido=chivalry. Art: Poetry, TALE OF GENJI, literature, brushpainting, Zen Buddhism mixed with Shintoism; tried to mimic China but aristocrats emphasized tradition (Buddhist backlash); Guilds, 12th C Warlord control (Taira, Minamoto families preserved imperial line by controlling it); Women – in early centuries aristocratic women hunted and rode, were part of commerce, took part of family inheritance – later lost it to marriage alliances and primogeniture
Snapshot of the World
American Civilizations: Pre-Columbian
MAYA
Writing
Bloodletting
Sacrifice of POWs
City-kingdoms
Astronomy
Cacao beans for currency
Tikal temples
Chichen Itza
Trade, military
Aristocratic priests, warriors, peasants
AZTEC
Militaristic
POWs as slaves and sacrifices
Localized trade
Temples, Tribute
Women bore warriors, ground corn
Chinampas
Eagle on Cactus prophesizes
Moctezuma’s loss to Cortez in 1519
Teotihuacan (Mexico City)
INCA
Tribute, hostages
Roads (Romans)
Atahualpa (killed by Pizarro), Pachacuti
Cult of the Dead (mummies)
Split inheritance
Women inherited women’s property
Sacrifices
QUIPU: knotted ropes for records
Song Empire: Anti-Buddhist backlash, weaker than Tang Empire as army took back seat to scholar-gentry; Bloated bureaucracy, isolationist; Neo-Confucianism, Golden Age of Junks and trade as far as Mediterranean; flying money, banks, Grand Canal, irrigation, bridges, gunpowder, naphtha, fireworks, projectiles, rocket launchers; women – foot binding, no widow remarriage, no divorce, inheritance, education. Men could be adulterous and remarry. Moveable type – printing -literature
Abbasid Caliphate: (750 – 1258) Islamic, cosmopolitan, sharia, bureaucratic, ulama; More trade-oriented than Umayyads; banks, saks (checks), trade, peasants overtaxed for corrupt and bloated bureaucracy; mosques at Cordoba, Sufi missionaries, capital at Baghdad guarded by eunuchs, divine rulers (Shadow of God on Earth), wazirs; women veiled and secluded; mercenary slave armies; irrigation collapsed to decrease farm output
Delhi Sultanate: – Mahmud of Ghazni from Afghanistan; Muslim rulers over Hindu majority in N. India; taxed peasants, some public works, some conversion among lower castes and Buddhists (Buddhists weakened by Muslim raids); separate Hindu/Muslim living areas, Islam adopted Hindu gender issues and class/caste divisions; SATI; Bhakti cult tried to revive Hinduism as response to Muslim conversions for lower caste Hindus
Byzantine Empire: Constantine; Trade b/w Europe/Asia; Bureaucracy like China; Eastern Orthodox (iconoclasm, mosaics); Theodora – women could own property equal to dowry; Justinian’s Code/Corpus of Civil Law; Belisarius – general who tried to retake Western Roman Empire, weakened the East; Hagia Sophia, Greek Fire; Fell to Ottoman Turks (Mehmed the Conqueror)
Ghana and Mali: Ibn Battuta described in his travels throughout Dar al Islam; Agricultural, large armies w/cavalry; alliances with Sudanic kingdoms; GRIOTS, no writing; Sundiata Keita, MANSA MUSA (richest man in world – hajj – gold prices dropped); Traded gold, salt, horses, slaves across Sahara; Mosques at Jenne, Timbuktu; Universities and Madrasas; women inferior (4 wives/man); rulers’ power based on ability to intercede with local spirits (like Mandate of Heaven); 80% population farmers with difficult lives
Mongol (Yuan Dynasty) Empire: 1200s – 1300s
Militaristic to the Khan who could keep it; Chinggis, Kubilai, Batu, Hulegu; traded with conquered peoples; repaired and guarded silk roads for revenue; mounted cavalry, stirrup; largest land empire in world history; women had high status – hunted, fought, resisted foot binding; Yuan - used Chinese bureaucracy but Chinese could not marry or use Mongol language. Merchants earned higher status due to trade; Religion: shamanism, later Islam; Mongol advance stopped by Mamelukes of Egypt (slave dynasty)

6. Snapshot of the World 1450 - 1750 Western Europe: Russia: China:
Renaissance:
Reformation:
Exploration:
Mercantilism:
Humanism:
Snapshot of the World
Russia:
China:
Japan:
African Kingdoms:
Southeast Asia:
Americas:
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE:
Ottoman Turks:
India - Mughals:

7. Western Europe: Mercantilism, humanism, exploration
Renaissance: – a renewed interest in classical culture; led to far-reaching change in art, learning, views of world (inspired by contact with East during Crusades); Began in Italian city-states (art) and spread north (philosophy and religion)
Reformation: 16th Century movement of religious reform, leading to the founding of Protestant Christian Churches that rejected Pope’s authority (Lutheran, Calvinism)
Exploration: Colonizing Americas most prominent; spawned by Portuguese attempt to find a route to Indies that avoided Muslim middlemen; Vasco da Gama rounded tip of Africa
Mercantilism: Economic theory that promotes government control of internal economy to avoid losing gold and silver to enemy states; goods should be produced in a country’s own territory; Spawned colonization.
Humanism: Individual has dignity and worth; ideas of Enlightenment philosophes
Snapshot of the World
Russia: Autocratic, theocratic monarchy (Tzars) ruling nobles, peasants (serfs); Peter, Ivan, Catherine the Great; Czars controlled church; Patriarchal; Harsh serfdom (bought/sold); Pugachev’s Rebellion (crushed)
China: Bureaucratic MING Empire; Elite, scholar-gentry in charge; Zheng He the Eunuch Muslim led naval expeditions; Civil Service Exam; Free peasant labor; silver trade with Americas; Nomadic incursions to north; Later isolationism
Japan: Autocratic, centralized rule under puppet emperor; Feudalism; Ruling Elite TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE, Samurai, free peasants, artisans, merchants; Christianity welcomed, then repressed as threat; isolationism; Dutch Learning from port at Nagasaki
African Kingdoms: North Africa- Sunni Ali in western Sudan; Rulers adopted Islam but kept some animist traditons; West Africa-Autocratic monarchies: rulers, merchants, peasants, slaves; Some matrilineal societies; Slavery in Africa previously based on wealth since ruler owned all land and slaves assimilated into families – not hereditary. European participation in slave trade expanded and moved it to coastal regions from the interior, elevated warrior class, and disrupted family and political patterns. Eastern Africa-Swahili city-states continued Indian Ocean trade. Songhai collapse left political fragmentation. 1770s-Islamic influence partly a way to escape capture as slaves; 1652: Dutch established colony around the Cape of Good Hope. Ethiopia is Coptic Christian.
Americas: Colonized by Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English; Inspired by a need to provide silver/gold for China trade; climate invited plantations and imperialism. Enslavement and death of indigenous peoples. Columbian Exchange.
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: Triangular trade of guns/Africans/sugar and rum b/w Europe/Africa/Americas ( ) million Africans to the Americas; most to Brazil; caused wars b/w African states; disrupted African history (griots, no written language) and gender balance; extreme cruelty contradicted humanist teachings; justified through social Darwinism
Southeast Asia: Chinese influence (Confucianism, politics, Buddhism; Dutch/Portuguese trading posts and English spice trade; No match for European military technology; Missionaries brought Christianity to compete with Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, polytheism; Spheres of influence as Europeans controlled local economies and rulers
Ottoman Turks: Autocratic monarchy: rulers, military, merchants, oppressed peasants, slaves from all over; bloated bureaucracy; Suleyman, Mehmed II; Muslim, patriarchal, DEVSHIRME (recruiting Christian boys as tax to become Jannisaries); peasant labor; conquered Byzantines (Constantinople became Istanbul); trade-based; world’s longest-ruling empire
India- Mughals conquered the sub-continent by early 1700s: Autocratic Islamic Sultan (theocratic monarchy); Muslim/Hindu castes; Babar, Akbar, Nur Jahan, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb; patriarchal but elite women had much political influence; limited trade with few maritime ventures; Din-I-Ilahi (Akbar’s syncretic blend of Islam/Hinduism; Akbar promoted women’s rights, outlawed sati; Sha Jahan built Taj Mahal; Aurangzeb’s intolerance of non-Muslims brought down empire

8. Snapshot of the World 1750 - 1900 EUROPE: Russia: China:
African Kingdoms:
Americas:
Japan:
Ottoman Turks:
India:
Southeast Asia:
GLOBAL ISSUES:

9. Snapshot of the World Before 1750 - 1900
EUROPE: Economics = mercantilism; Enlightenment; Industrialization (1789) eclipsed agriculture; painful social changes, urbanization (hell holes), work leaves home, women work, child labor, rise of middle class, population revolution; Govt: monarchies challenged by representative movements: Loss of British
Russia: Still serf-based until late industrialization and emancipation of serfs (1860s); Autocratic, theocratic czars; Westernized by Peter the Great and Catherine the Great; Huge land-based empire; Czar Nicholas I used secret police, supported nationalist movements in Balkans to steal control from Ottoman Turks; Count Witte modernized/industrialized. Women excelled in medicine, education; 1905 Revolution; wars with Ottomans/Japanese; reforms fell apart, landlords were too powerful and peasants were too oppressed
Snapshot of the World Before
American colonies 1776; French Revolution 1789 (Robespierre’s Reign of Terror); Napoleon’s Coup d’etat and Liberals v. Radicals; women – aristocrats and elite left merchant partnerships to rear children at home while working class women went to factories; feminism, suffrage (Emmaline Pankhurst of Great Britain); Unification of Germany/Italy; Marks/Engels – dictatorship of the proletariat (Communism); Leisure (parks, bicycles, arts, sciences); Tangled alliances (Triple Alliance, Triple Entente); Balkan states of Ottoman Empire – nationalism – coveted by Russia; Imperialism in Africa, Asia, Americas, Australia (Partition of Africa); White dominions (Canada, New Zealand, Australia)
China: Qing in decline; TAIPING and BOXER rebellions; 1839 Opium Wars end isolation; imperialism; food shortages; famine, population explosion, limited technology due to isolationism; Extraterritoriality: Cixi defied modernization (marble ship statue) 1912 – Puyi deposed – Sun Yat-Sen’s revolutionaries cut off queues and abandoned Confucianism
African Kingdoms: Imperialism – SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA – no match for European technology or guns; European settlement colonies and loss of native lands/rights; No education for Africans – stunted growth of middle class; no European mixing with natives – lesson from SE Asia; Mining/farming profits went to Europe; Apartheid in South Africa
Japan: Isolationism: closed ports even in storms; port at Nagasaki allowed some Dutch Learning. Limited technology; fairly good economy until 1850s; Matthew Perry (1853) opened ports. MEIJI restoration led to industrialism and imperialism; conflict b/w conservatives and westernizers. Militarism, police repression avoided peasant revolts from poor living conditions; Sino-Japanese War with China over Korea (1894-5); Zaibatsu (industrial combines); silk labor – women were sometimes sold by poor farm families.
Americas: Revolutions: American 1776, Haitian 1793, Latin America (Simon Bolivar plows the sea trying for Gran Columbia; Decolonization – democracy struggled against dictatorships; caudillos; liberals v. conservatives; Catholic Church rule; Migration of workers form Asia, Europe, Africa (slave trade); ATLANTIC SLAVERY ENDS due to 1.Enlightenment 2.Industry trumped agriculture; Slavery in full swing until 1800s; Democracy in US/Civil War; Western women idealized (motherhood, right to vote, still lack equality in work with exceptions during world wars); US becomes imperialist power; Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Einstein, romanticism, nationalism, American Exceptionalism; Very little industry in Latin America – monoculture, reliance on one crop or export product (problematic)
Ottoman Turks: OTTOMAN collapse due to corruption, inept sultans, Russian/European threat, nationalism from within; 1839 TANZIMAT reforms modernized/westernized; Young Turks deposed sultan, brought free press, constitution, educ. for women; abused Arabs and lost 600-yr-old empire during WWI. Turkey built on ruins by Kemal Ataturk. EGYPT: Napoleon crushed Mameluks (1798). MIDDLE EAST: Islamic rulers became puppets to European overlords. Women lost more status.
India: Crown Jewel of British Empire after British took control over princely states due to regional disputes; British education, language, customs encouraged; Outlawed SATI in reforms. SEPOYS: Indian troops paid by British (Sepoy Rebellion)
Southeast Asia: Colonized by Dutch, British, French – early mingling w/ natives but later strict segregation; Early SE Asian women had high status in trade activities and often married European men wanting their fortunes. Europeans adopted SE Asian styles and customs. Later NABOBS abused peasants and cheated companies. Some later missionary work w./ minor success.
GLOBAL ISSUES: Increased environmental degradation, international trade, migration (forced and free), westernization (Cultural diffusion), global tensions, females as domestic servants

10. Snapshot of the World 1900 - Present
WESTERN EUROPE:
Snapshot of the World Present
JAPAN AND PACIFIC RIM:
China:
NORTH AMERICA:
AFRICA:
EASTERN EUROPE:
Middle East/Southwest Asia:
LATIN AMERICA:
India:
GLOBAL ISSUES:

11. Snapshot of the World 1900 - Present
WESTERN EUROPE: Loss of colonies & dominance (political & economic) in WWI and II. Breakdown of WESTERN HEGEMONY. FASCISM (Hitler and Mussolini) Communism rises and falls in Russia; Hitler’s rise due to Treaty of Versailles after WWII. Breakup of Austro- Hungarian Empire. Armenian and Jewish Holocausts. Great Depression>welfare state and socialism. Nationalism in W. Europe declines. European Union creates economic powerhouse. Art: Cubism, Dadaism
JAPAN AND PACIFIC RIM: Imperialism (China & SE Asia, bombing of Pearl Harbor); Militaristic industry rebuilt with US help after WWII; Fascist to democratic- weapons to cars and electronics; economic growth in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, etc. Conflicts b/w Communism and
Snapshot of the World Present
democracy (N & S Korea, N&S Vietnam); US interventions to prevent Communism; some monarchies, some representative govts; low wages; Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, growing women’s rights
China: Chang Kai-Shek fought Mao Zedong’s Communists while Japan invaded; After WWII, Mao’s Communists gained control in a peasant revolution; Great Leap Forward > Industry and progress; Women gained rights and status; China has questionable human rights record, environmental problems; Economic superpower now embracing capitalism but still Communist; Hu is president; Cheap labor and devalued currency threaten US industry and economy.
NORTH AMERICA: Isolationist at start of WWI and II. Superpower afterward. Great Depression – FDR’s welfare state/ New Deal; League of Nations >United Nations. Cold War with USSR – Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. Industrial power = consumerism. Women’s feminist revolution (Roe v. Wade) Civil Rights (Brown v. Board of Ed.) Dr. Martin Luther King JR; US intervention in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe for human rights and Middle East for oil. Industry moved abroad in the late 20th C. as cheap goods from Asia flooded markets. Adopted role as enforcer of world democracy. Migrants for work & political freedom. Gap b/w rich & poor. More technology but less access to health care. OIL crisis.
AFRICA: Decolonization from French, British to create military dictatorships w/poor civil rights; Ethnic tensions due to false colonial borders; Problems w/monoculture, desertification, draught, AIDS, famine, women’s rights (rape, female genital mutilation); Economic crisis, corruption, and military strongmen in control; Anti-Apartheid: Nelson Mandela, Muslim/Christian conflicts, migrations to Europe; Ethnic cleansing with weak UN efforts.
EASTERN EUROPE: Cold War – controlled by Communist USSR; Eastern Bloc/Iron Curtain/ Warsaw Pact; Lack of consumerism; Lenin>Stalin>Kruschev>Breznev>Gorbachev>Putin; Post-Communist democracies, dictatorships; ethnic tensions (Yugoslavia) Gorbachev brought peristroika and glasnost; Soviet Union ended in 1991; Russia now struggling with Capitalism.
Middle East/Southwest Asia: Decolonization; Balfour Declaration: Israeli and Zionism is great threat to Middle East peace; Most countries Islamic – splits between Sunnis and Shiites; Oil is power (OPEC); Some fundamentalism – problems for women’s rights (Western dress to Burkas, education forbidden, women cannot go to doctor or out in public); Israeli/Palestinian wars; Iran/Iraq war; Iraq invades Kuwait (Gulf War); war in Afghanistan to stop terrorism/Taliban; Increased tension in Iraq
LATIN AMERICA: WWI – reliance on foreign investments and monoculture caused economic crisis after Great Depression; Military dictatorships; gap b/w elite and impoverished masses; Great Depression killed fledgling democracies; Juan Peron (Evita) in Argentina and Vargas’s suicide in Brazil; Communist threats brought US intervention; Banana Republics in Caribbean & S. America; New trends toward democracy; Migration to US for work and political freedom (Cuba)
India: Gandhi’s non-violent resistance brings independence; India becomes world’s largest democracy; Non-alignment w/US or USSR; Hindu nationalism – India/Pakistan split; Women’s rights in crisis: female infanticide, abortion, dowry deaths, wife burning
GLOBAL ISSUES: Migrations (economic, political, disaster); westernization and its challengers; transportation and globalization; diplomacy and war; environmental degradation (oil and water crisis, global warming); overpopulation

12. Other Useful Review Charts
Religion
River Valley Civilizations
Revolutions

13. Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Confucianism Daoism Shintoism Islam
Religion (symbol)
Date and Location of Origin
Founder/ Leader/Prophet
Holy Text
Major Beliefs
Economic and Social Impact of Spread
Christianity †
Polytheism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Judaism
Confucianism
Daoism
Shintoism
Islam

14. Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Confucianism Daoism Shintoism Islam
Religion (symbol)
Date and Location of Origin
Founder/ Leader/Prophet
Holy Text
Major Beliefs
Economic and Social Impact of Spread
 N?A
 N/A
ANIMISM 
CREATION CITIES
CREATION NEW RELIGIONS
HIERARCHY
 1500 BCE
INDIA
N/A
Veda
 Karma/Caste System
 created strict social classes based on occupation
Caste made social outcastes
 5th-6th c bce
India
Guatauma
Sutra
4 noble truths, nirvana, karma, 8 fold path
Traveled along silk roads
Social equality between classes
3000 bce
Middle east
Abraham
Torah
monotheism./ rules
bce
China
confucious
Analects
Proper behviour
Mandate of heaven
bce
Laozi
n/a
The way
Yin-yang
Balance of nature
  BCE
Japan
Ancestor worship
Animism
Purity/ ethics
 samurai
Christianity †
33 CE
Middle East
Jesus
Paul
Christian Biblle
Salvation through grace
Salvation through belief in Jeus
 610 CE
Mohammed
Quran
5 pillars
Polytheism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Judaism
Confucianism
Daoism
Shintoism
Islam

15. Early River Valley Civilizations
Advanced Cities
Specialized Workers
Complex Institutions
Records
Advanced Technology
Class Structure
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus Valley
China

16. South America (Chavins)
Culture (religion, written records, art, science, attitudes, etc)
State Structure (Government, military, education, etc)
Social Structure (demographic change, gender roles,hierarchies)
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus (India)
Shang (China)
Meso-America (Olmec)
South America (Chavins)

17. 20th Century Revolutions Chart
Date?
Causes
Progress (Stages)
Outcomes
Mexico
China
Russia

18. Comparative Revolutions Chart
Old Regime (causes)
Political or Social Groups and their goals
Important Leaders and their accomplishments
Important events in the Revolution
Results and Limits
Chinese Revolution
Mexican Revolution
Russian Revolution

19. Comparative Revolutions Chart
Old Regime (causes)
Political or Social Groups and their goals
Important Leaders and their accomplishments
Important events in the Revolution
Results and Limits
Chinese Revolution
 Qing or manchu regim regime controlled by Europeans
Corruption
Big population, little food
No $
No military to protect from outside forces
 KMT or nationalist party
Xinhai revolution
 Sun Yat Sen
3 people principal
*overtrhow imperial system
*democratic republic
*nationalize land
 1911 military rebellion in Wuchang
End of WWI treaty of versialles makes China angry-betrayed.
1921 communist Party enters China
 Last dynasty
Republic
Communism
Mexican Revolution
 Elitist oligarchy caused economic problems for country
 Zapata
Pancho villa
F. Madero
 1917 Mexican Constitution
Many Presidents killed
 Land reform
Encouraged Mexico to support US in WW2
Russian Revolution
 Tzar Nic = inequality
 Blsheviks
Communists
 Lenin
Stalin
 Civil War: White (tzar and international community) and Reds (Lenin)
 USSR out of WW1
Communist
Cold War

20. Various and Sundry
Projects: Considerations include time constraints and student motivation (Medieval Document Analysis, Revolutions)
Essay Rubrics
Angela Lee’s Jigsaw Concept Applications
WHA List serve

21. Projects I Use Gifted/Talented Differentiation in Texas
Optional projects outside of class when time is short
Medieval Cities
Revolutions
Renaissance/Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution
Columbus Analysis