Regional reviewRegional review

35003500BCEBCE - 1450 - 1450

Region3500-600 BCE

600 BCE –AD 600

600-1450

West Asia/Middle East3500-600 BCE

Mesopotamia – Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Persians Phoenicians, HebrewsEgyptians

600 BCE –AD 600

Persians (Achaemenid, Sassanid) Roman territories- Byzantine territories

600-1450 Umayyad & Abbasid CaliphateSeljuk TurksMongols – Timur - Ottomans

South Asia3500-600 Indus – Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro

Indo-European invasionsAryan Vedic Age– jana-rajyapada (regional Kingdoms) Hindu & Caste foundations

600-600 Alexander the Great – HellenisticMauryan EmpireGupta Empire

600-1450 Political Fragmentation Delhi Sultanate – North (Islam)Hindu Temple EconomyMerchant GuildsIndian Ocean Trade

East Asia3500-600 BCE

Huang He Valley – Shang & ZhouWarring States period100 Schools of ThoughtMandate 0f Heaven, Dynastic Cycle

600 BCE –AD 600

Qin Legalism – Shi HuangdiHan Confucianism–Silk RoadDaoism – private livesCrisis of Late Antiquity -Buddhism

600-1450 Sui unification, Tang–warrior aristocrats, urban, Song – technological developmentMongol – Yuan DynastyKorea – Bridge, Japan - Feudalism

Eastern Europe3500-600BCE

Minoan, Mycenae Phoenician colonies

600 BCE –AD 600

Ancient Greece - BalkansRoman TerritoriesByzantium -Constantinople

Strategic position on straits

Byzantine Empire - JustinianEastern Orthodox Christianity

600-1450 Kiev – Cyrillic AlphabetMongols- Golden Horde

Development of modern Russia- Muscovy

Western Europe3500-600BCE

Phoenician & Greek coloniesTiber River Valley – RomeEtruscans

600 BCE –AD 600

Roman Republic – EmpirePunic Wars , Mare Nostrum

Huns – Visigoths, Vandals, Lombards

600-1450

Merovingian, Carolingian-CharlemagneRoman Catholicism–power ,corruptionFeudalism (Social, Political)ManorialismHigh Middle Ages (Crusades)Late Middle Age (Crises)

Sub-Saharan Africa3500-600 BCE

Bantu MigrationsDiffusion 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 tradeGhana, Mali, Songhai

East Africa- Indian Ocean Trading city-state

Islam - Swahili

AmericasInnovative sites

No large draft animalsSlower Development

Meso-America Olmecs, Mayas, Teotihuacán Slash & Burn agricultureFoundation for Aztecs

South America Chavin Cult, Mochica StateMountainsNeed for interdependenceFoundation for Incas