time periods & civilizations

Time Periods & CivilizationsA Journey Through Time

Paleolithic

“Old Stone Age”

Nomadic

Lived in Caves

No Writing

Gathered FoodHunted Animals

Stone Tools

No Organized Government

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Neolithic

“New Stone Age”

Permanent SettlementsSurplus for Trade

WritingDomestication of Plants & Animals

Herding Animals

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Farming

ReligionJob Specialization

Ancient Egypt

Pyramids

Monumental BuildingPolytheism

HieroglyphicsNile River

PharaohsTutankhamun

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Mesopotamia

“The Fertile Crescent”

Sumerian CivilizationEuphrates River

Cuneiform Writing Hammurabi Code of Laws

Babylonians

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Tigris River Polytheism

Ziggurat

Ancient India

Indus River Valley Civilization

Harappa

City Planning – Grid System

Moenjo-DaraConcept of Zero

Sewer System

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Ancient China

Yellow RiverGunpowder

Zhou DynastySun Tzu – “The Art of War”

Shi Huangdi

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Compass

Han Dynasty

Chin Dynasty

Mongol Empire

Expert Horsemen

Pax Mongolia

Genghis KahnConquered China

Conquered Eastern Europe

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Ancient Greece

Athens & SpartaDual Monarchy

Plato & Aristotle

DemocracyCity-States

Alexander the Great

SocratesPhilosophy

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Ancient Rome

The Arch

Coliseum

Julius Caesar

RepublicTwelve Tables

Augustus

DictatorRoads

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Dark &MiddleAges

Feudalism

Crusades

Cathedral Building

Magna CartaManorialism

Roman Catholic Church Powerful

Low Education RatesKnights

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Renaissance

Rebirth ofRoman & Greek Culture

Machiavelli

Leonardo da Vinci

HumanismScientific Revolution

ProtestantReformation

Michelangelo“The Prince”

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Scientific

Revolution

Gallileo

Copernicus

Laws of GravityNewton

Heliocentric Model

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Protestant

Reformation

Martin Luther

Roman Catholic Church Power Declines

Indulgences95 Theses

Royal Power Grows

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Age of Exploration

Columbus

Columbian Exchange

Magellan

Aztec Civilization endsMayan Civilization ends

Inca Civilization endsCortes

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The Age of Absolutism

Versailles

Peter the Great

Louis XIVTheory of Divine Right

Henry VIII

Maria Theresa

Catherine the Great

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The Enlightenment

Thomas Hobbes

“Two Treatises of Government”

Rousseau

John Locke

The Social Contract

Consent of the Governed

Natural Rights

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The French Revolution

Tennis Court Oath

Robespierre

3rd EstateLouis XVI (16th)

The Directory

Napoleon Bonaparte

Storming of the Bastille

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Nationalism

Fascism

Pride & Devotion

Break up of Austria-Hungary Empire

Unification Germany 1871

Mussolini – Italy 1920s

Nazi Germany 1933-1945

Unification Italy 1861

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Imperialism

Opium Wars

Industrial Revolution

Scramble for Africa

“The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire”

Japan’s Ports Opened

Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)

Natural Resources

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Victorian Age

Herbert SpencerThe Great Stink – London 1858Survival of the Fittest

Queen Victoria / Great Britain

EugenicsFrankenstein, Dracula, Oliver Twist

Social Darwinism

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World War 1Alliances

League of Nations

ImperialismMilitarism

The Spark – Assassination Archduke Ferdinand

Treaty of Versailles

Nationalism

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Russian Revolution

Bolsheviks

Soviet Union

End of Monarchy in Russia

Czar Nicholas II

Marxism / Communism

Totalitarianism

Lenin

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Inter-War Years

Economic Boom

Rise of Hitler - Germany

Great Depression

Roaring 20sStock Market Crash 1929

End of Treaty of Versailles

Speakeasy

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World War 2

Hiroshima

Germany Invades Poland 1939

Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Winston Churchill

HolocaustAxis Powers

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Holocaust

5 Million (Gypsies, Communists, Homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah Witness) Killed

Adolf HitlerGenocide

The Final Solution

Auschwitz Concentration CampS.S. / Einsatzgruppen

6 Millions Jews Killed

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Cultural Revolution

Industrialization

Red Guard Terror

Little Red Book

People’s Republic of China

Modernize China

Chinese Culture Supressed

Chairman Mao

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The Cold War

Khrushchev vs. Kennedy

Threat of Nuclear War

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

Gorbachev vs. Reagan

Berlin Wall

Korean War

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Post-World War IIIndependence Movements

India & Pakistan

Apartheid Ends

Egypt

Rwanda

North & South KoreaBreak-Up of

Yugoslavia into theBalkan States

Hutsi - Tutsi

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Apartheid

F.W. DeClerk

U.N. Economic Sanctions

Nelson Mandela

South Africa

Legal Discrimination

Minority Government

Equal Rights

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Human Rights Violations

Rwanda Genocide - Africa

Tiananmen Square - China

Hitler - Holocaust

Stalin – Soviet Union

Armenian Genocide - Turkey

Bataan Death March – Japanese WWII

Apartheid – South Africa

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