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Periodization
A.P. World History: Periodization
| Event | Period |
|---|---|
| From 4500 BC to 1000 BC | Ancient Period |
| Begins with agriculture | Ancient Period |
| Begins with sedentarism | Ancient Period |
| Generally small city-states, states | Ancient Period |
| Neolithic | Ancient Period |
| Ancient River Valley Civilization | Ancient Period |
| Ends with rise of large, regional empires | Ancient Period |
| 1,000 BC to 500 CE | Classical Period |
| Athens, Sparta, Persia, Han, Jhon, Quin, Roman, Mesoameria | Classical Period |
| Large, regional empires | Classical Period |
| Military aristocrates | Classical Period |
| Permanent traditions: Confucianism, Buddism, Legalism, Daoism, Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism | Classical Period |
| Regional Civilizations: China, India, SW Asia (Cuneiform), Mediterranean, Mesoameria, and Andean America. Strong Contrast between regional centers. | Classical Period |
| Many areas outside classical civilizations | Classical Period |
| Ends with massive nomadic invasions | Classical Period |
| 500 CE to 1450 CE | Post-Classical Age |
| Began with ride of Islam | Post-Classical Age |
| First trans-reginal civilizations that spans Eurasia and Africa: Vikings, Byzantine, Islam | Post-Classical Age |
| Era of two great powers: Islam, China | Post-Classical Age |
| Spread of universalizing religions, philosophies: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism | Post-Classical Age |
| Saw rise of new civilization centers | Post-Classical Age |
| Emergence of network of global contacts: Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharhan | Post-Classical Age |
| Ends due to Mongols, Black Death | Post-Classical Age |
| 1450-1750 | Early Modern Era |
| Rise of gunpowder empires: Ottoman | Early Modern Era |
| Rise of Western World | Early Modern Era |
| World Shrinks | Early Modern Era |
| All continents included in world network | Early Modern Era |
| Global Trade develops for the first time | Early Modern Era |
| Great exchanges of goods, products, flora, fauna, people, germs (Columbine Exchange). Also ideas, especially European, Christianity | Early Modern Era |
| 1750 to 1914 | Modern Age |
| "The West and the Rest" | Modern Age |
| Industrial Revolution | Modern Age |
| Era of massive technological change | Modern Age |
| Steam Engine | Modern Age |
| Technological Revolutions | Modern Age |
| Political Revolution | Modern Age |
| French Revolution | Modern Age |
| American Revolution | Modern Age |
| Social Revolution, Intellectual | Modern Age |
| Vast trade networks | Modern Age |
| Western Global Hegemony (rule over leadership): Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia. USA and Japan are the newest powers | Modern Age |
| Dominance of Western Culture | Modern Age |
| Ends with WWI | Modern Age |
| 1914 to Present | Contemporary Era |
| "Change, Change, Change" | Contemporary Era |
| The American Century, Retreat of Europe | Contemporary Era |
| Rise of Pacific Rim (Asia Tigers), India | Contemporary Era |
| Collapse of European Empires | Contemporary Era |
| Modernization vs. Westernization | Contemporary Era |
| Modernization vs. Traditionalism | Contemporary Era |
| Rise of new political forms | Contemporary Era |
| Mass Culture | Contemporary Era |
| Technology, telecommunications dominate age | Contemporary Era |
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