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Increased use of plant foods eventually led to the domestication of certain plants. People grew beans, peppers, avocados, squash, and eventually maize.
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Maize is from a wild grass that had taken place in central Mexico. Along with it came the cultivation of peppers, squash, tomatoes, and the grains amaranth and quinoa.
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In the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, people began to practice agriculture. The society combined hunting and agriculture.
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Horses introduced to Africa by the way of Egypt.
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Migrated to Italy.
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Started as a small village on the Tiber river and off the Mediterranean coast
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Adopted agriculture and made some contact with Greek settlements.
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Greeks used the Phoenician alphabet for writing their language. The advancement of literacy helped with trade by helping the exchange of commercial information and enhancing cultural life.
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Greek city-states were created and unified against outsiders like the Persians
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Greek centers have trading connections around the black sea, Egypt and south Italy.
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He established a massive Persian Empire that ran northern Middle East and into northwest india.
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Created major road systems that helped reduced travel time. Postal service was established as well as a network of inns along the travel roads. The trade routes connect the middle east to central and east Asia.
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Introduction to the use of copper money and vital materials trade such as horses, iron, and salt
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100,000 Persian troops went down the peninsula and capture Athens for rebelling against them.
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Developed calendar based on 365.5 days a year
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War Athens Vs Sparta where because Athens caught a plague that killed one third of the population. Rise of Sparta
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Rome took over the whole of central Italy.
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Rome second wave of expansions started towards the southern end of the peninsula.
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Philip II ruled over Greece, Egypt and into west Asia. Started the influence of Hellenism
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Alexander the Great defeated the Persian army but the language and culture survived of the Persian people in the northeast of the middle east
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Alexander took 35,000 troops into Asia and defeated the main Persian Army led by Syria's Emperor.
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Alexander the Great dies from a fever in Babylon.
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Cleopatra kills herself
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After conquering much of the northwest and driving the Greek successors of Alexander out of India, his armies began to conquer the kingdoms of the Ganges plain that would later form the heartland of the Mauryan Empire.
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Rome defeated North African City state of Carthage twice.
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Settled communities developed in this region, living first in pit houses partially beneath the ground and later in stone structures.
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Traded Chinese silks, porcelains, metal ores, and food stuff. Things carried over great distance tended to be higher priced goods.
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Trading centers in Southeast Asia supplied China with forest products and other raw materials in exchange for the many items manufactured by China's highly skilled artisans.
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Shi Huangdi overthrew Qin and developed standard script and coinage that are universal through the whole empire.
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After his crazy building frenzy about 3 years after his death people began to revolt because they did not want come to work late and be killed.
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This founded the Han dynasty
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Rome ruled Greece and all Eastern Mediterranean
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New overland trade routes into central Asia and south China. Oversea links created Vietnam and southeast Asia with trading towns in coastal India
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The creation of the brush pen and paper. Also development in watermills to grind grain and also power workshops. They also created the compasses to steer and guide ships. There was also rudders created
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Iron and Copper were a resource. Also silk making was increased with the making of lacquer ware and porcelain.
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Roman agriculture became increasingly commercialized.
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Most of Roman slaves came from Spain later Britain, Germany and the Slavic Lands of the northern Balkans, and Africa.
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Invented the pulley system to pump out flooded ships and to fields. Also wrote about mathematics and measurement of water power.
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New agricultural tools were increased in productivity and made the ability make rice, millet, and wheat, but some villages specialized in cotton and plants for dyes and sugar cane.
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Romans began to conquer Macedonia and Greece,and they soon set up a protectorate over the Asia coast of the Mediterranean as well as Egypt.
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He succeeded Liu Bang for the throne
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Conquered Vietnamese
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He conquered the empire from the south and east of him. Also parts of Korea were conquered.
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The Vedas were written in Sanskrit in India and became the official language
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Rome declined gradually and began losing territory and confronting new economic problems.
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Large mercantile firms controlled all of the long distance trading networks. They traded horses, grain, and bulk items with items for the rich like incense, rhinoceros horns, and fragrant woods.
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220 C.E Han dynasty was overthrown because the later emperors neglected the empire and nomads and outsiders could not be stopped form entering China.
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The start of this indian empire
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476 C.E when the Roman Empire fell
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The Mesoamericans world was shaken by the rapid decline of the great culture centers.
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Trans-Sahara commerce was the basis for the growth of the empire of Ghana, which lay squarely on the trade route.
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One of the new groups that occupied the central plateau after the fall of Teotihuacan, established political control over a large territory and eventually extended their influence into Maya Territory. Toltec's spoke Nahuatl.
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Gold and salt trade increased the kingdom's wealth. The city was divided into two.
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The Toltec civilization empire failed and Aztecs rose to power in the central plateau of mexico
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Long - distance trade in pottery, metals, canoes, and crafts developed in some regions.