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World History WORLD HISTORY © 2015 albert-learning.com World History Vocabulary Sumerian writing Sumerian, the oldest known written language in human history, Overruns spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers. Heresy belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially Christian) doctrine. Inquisition a period of prolonged and intensive questioning. Trial and error the process of experimenting with various methods of doing something until one finds the most successful. Overwhelmed have a strong emotional effect on. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History THE ANCIENT WORLD 4.3 million years ago to 12,000 BCE 12,000 to 4001 4000 to 2001 2000 to 1001 1000 to 501 500 to 401 Settled farming, trading and continuing migrations. 400 to 301 Sumerian writing. Gods run the world by magic and conquer for their monarchs. Religious diffusions and 300 to 201 oral stories are put into writing. Religions transform. 200 to 101 Indic civilization. Zhou overruns Shang civilization. 100 to 1 Persian and Greek civilizations. Philosophy. Alexander 1 to 100 the Great and the Hellenistic world. The Mauryan and 101 to 200 Roman empires. The Han dynasty fails politically. More 201 to 300 divisions in Judaism and the rise of Christianity. Rome is swallowed by its empire and Christianized 301 to 400 Rome fails – as empires always do. 401 to 500 © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 6th to 15th Centuries 501 to 600 601 to 700 701 to 800 801 to 900 901 to 1000 1001 to 1100 1101 to 1200 German tribal conquests, barbarism, and monasteries. 1201 to 1300 Cultural diffusion congeals into Islam. Trade and bloody 1301 to 1400 competition between empires and family dynasties. 1401 to 1500 Power struggle among Muslims. Christians against the evils of heresy, Islam and Jews. Mongol and Turkish expansions. Greek philosophy returns to Europe. Bubonic plague. Hundred Years' War. Muslims take Constantinople. Savonarola. The Inca empire expands. Sailing ships out for religious conversions and trade. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 16th and 17th Centuries 1501 to 1510 1511 to 1520 1521 to 1530 1531 to 1540 1541 to 1550 1551 to 1560 1561 to 1570 1571 to 1580 Latin empire, bloody conflict, Christianity, death and African slaves to America. The Reformation, with the printing press 1581 to 1590 helping Protestantism. In India, Japan and Europe, rulers 1591 to 1600 extend their powers by force. Religious wars in France. Islam's imperial army to the gates of Vienna; then decline. Cannons have made castles and knights obsolete. Standing armies and Machiavellian diplomacy increase. Shakespeare. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 1601 to 1610 1611 to 1620 1621 to 1630 1631 to 1640 1641 to 1650 1651 to 1660 1661 to 1670 1671 to 1680 1681 to 1690 1691 to 1700 Tokugawa Japan. The French, Dutch and English to the Americas and to Africa. The Dutch to Indonesia. In Europe the telescope and science, Galileo and the Inquisition. Religious conflict and the Thirty Years' War (The Battle of White Mountain in Bohemia (1620)—one of the decisive battles of the Thirty Years War). Civil War in England. Discovery of micro-organisms. England's liberal "Glorious Revolution." Europe has learned religious toleration. Locke's political contract rather than a divine right of kings. Newton's physics. England's Bill of Rights. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 18th and 19th Centuries 1701 to 1710 1711 to 1720 1721 to 1730 1731 to 1740 1741 to 1750 1751 to 1760 1761 to 1770 More warfare over who should rule where. More slaves 1771 to 1780 shipped to America in British ships, supplied by African 1781 to 1790 emperors. Peter the Great. An encyclopedia created in China. 1791 to 1800 Literacy on the rise. Voltaire admires England's liberties. In France the right to question and the new search for knowledge inspires "The Enlightenment." War in Europe extends to North America followed by the American Revolutionary War. French Revolutionaries struggle with enlightenment and reason, trial and error. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 1811 to 1820 1821 to 1830 1831 to 1840 1841 to 1850 1851 to 1860 1861 to 1870 1871 to 1880 1881 to 1890 1891 to 1900 Napoleon, empire and nationalism. Slave emancipation. Technological change and cultural upheaval. Revolution in 1848. Serfdom declines in Europe. Humiliations and rebellions in Asia. The U.S. Civil War. Labor against factory and mine owners. Utopian socialists. Karl Marx. Science and public hygiene. The geologist Lyell and Charles Darwin. Tsarist Russia. Meiji Japan. Western secularism. Transportation revolution and trade surge. Empire sets the stage for conflict in the next century. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History 1901 to 1945 The most powerful and their admirers see virtue in empire – everybody's doing it. Ottoman empire and Habsburg empire. "Boxer" hostility to foreigners in China. Imperial competition leads to Russo-Japanese War. Franz Joseph annexes Serbian lands. Japan annexes Korea. World War, passions and narrow visions. Anti-war socialists and revolution in Russia. A victor's peace punishes Germany. British and French violent oppressions and colonialism in the Middle East. China's May 4 movement. Japan attempts to control China. The Great Depression and recoveries. From Lenin to Stalin. Hitler scapegoats Jews. Passivity allows German nationalists to undo treaties. War in Europe. Japan moves against West in Asia. Each side sees itself as righteous and the other as evil. Germany and Japan are overwhelmed by the manpower and industrial strength. Fifty-one nations sign the UN Charter. © 2015 albert-learning.com World History Make sentences Overruns Heresy Inquisition Trial and error Overwhelmed © 2015 albert-learning.com