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Period: 500 BCE to
Chapter 13 Early African Civilizations
Factors that shape early African civilizations include extended families, lakes and rivers, and climate which enables them to grow a variety of crops. -
Period: 500 BCE to 1550
Chapter 16 The early Americas
Some civilizations include the Maya, Aztecs, and the Incas -
200
13.1 Africa, The Niger River begins to be used for trading
Africa, the biggest continent has many resources that help factor into survival. Some of their many landforms include the Sahara Desert, the Atlas Mountains, and in the southeast part of Africa lay many great rifts. All of these landforms are keys to survival in all of Africa. -
200
Chapter 13 modern day connection
Because of Ghana’s trading the world has been majorly inspired to trade their many goods throughout the world. -
220
14.1 China, period of disunion begins
When the Han Dynasty collapsed, China split into several small kingdoms each of them was ruled by military leaders. This period is called the Period of Disunion. This lasted 220 to 589. China was finally reunified and was for 700 years under very powerful dynasties. -
550
15.1 Japan, The first people of Japan arrive
People who lived south of the Ainu finally became Japanese they lived in small farming villages. They later developed their own religion Shinto which is now considered the traditional religion of Japan. -
Period: 550 to
Chapter 12 the Islamic world
In the 600s a man named Muhammad introduced Southwest Asia to a new religion, Islam. -
Period: 550 to
Japan chapter 15 timespan
Japan grows steadily In its military system and technology/achievements. Japan was also quite influenced by Japan and Korea. -
603
16.1 The America’s, The beginning of the maya civilization
The Maya culture was influenced by many sources including social structure and religion. Pascal, their leader led the civilization into many events such as religious dances and meetings. The Maya people were polytheistic which meant they worshipped many gods such as the sun god, moon goddess, and the maize god. Because of their religion they had a great advance in science and built observatories or a place where you could observe the sky. -
613
12.1 Muhammad is born in Mecca
Muhammad was born into an important family living in the city of Mecca around 570 AD. Muhammad began to realize that the wealthy merchants were treating the poor badly. He then went to the hills to meditate. At age 40 he went to meditate in a cave and said to have seen an angel tell him: recite! recite!" "Recite what," he asked. From that day onward Muhammad said to have been told what to write in a religious book called the Qur'an. He started a religion we know today called islam. -
632
12.2 Arabia, people begin to practice Islam and learn the many teachings and beliefs
The main teaching of the Qur'an is that there is only one God named Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. The Qur'a teaches that the world had a beginning, but will come to an end. Also, all people must obey Allah's commands. The Qur'an promises that to those who obey Allah will be granted to stay in paradise, but if do not follow you will suffer. The Qur'an also instructs on ways to follow Allah using The Five Pillars which are laws and instructions of Islam. -
634
12.3 Arabia, The beginnings of an empire
Abu Bakr led a series of battles to unite Arabia. After his death in 634, he turned Arabia into a unified Muslim state. Arabia won many strong victories of Persia and Byzantine. When different lands were conquered Muslims set some rules for non-Muslim people living there. However Christians and Jews could stay with their religion. -
730
14.2 China, China advances in agriculture
China's capital and largest city of the Tang Dynasty was Chang'an. The was a population of more that one million it was the largest city of its time. Because of China's growth in farming towns began to crowd. -
794
15.2 Japan, Heian becomes Japan's capital
The nobles of Japan started imperial court because they followed their emperor to Heian and felt that they deserved his respect and to live near him. The imperial court was basically a group of nobles who lived near served and advised their emperor. The nobles of that time loved art and hung it all around where they lived which sparked a passion in Japan for art. This age was the called the golden age of arts. it was between 794 and 1185. -
Period: 800 to
China Chapter 14
Dynasties include: Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Sui. -
1068
13.2 Africa, Ghana takes control of Africa's trade routes
Ghana was in control of all the trade routes including all trade through north and south Africa. This made Ghana's wealth slowly increase. These are also Ghana's main building blocks to making a powerful empire. Ghana's way of trading was silent bartering which was trading with people, but not making face to face or physical contact. This would keep the gold mine's location secret to Ghana. -
1100
15.3 Japan, Japan's military grows
In the late 1100s, powerful nobles began to fight over land. Rebels began to fight against imperial offices which you can only assume that Heian was a very chaotic place with thieves roaming. To solve this problem Japanese landowners or daimyo began hiring powerful trained soldiers called samurai. The samurai defended the daimyo's land in case of trespassers or other people who were not doing the right thing. later powerful military leaders called shogun began to rule in place of the emperor. -
1100
Chapter Japan, 15 modern day connection samurai
Just like today samurai were hired people that watched land for their owners. This is seen today because usually rich and “powerful” land owners hire guards or even guard dogs to watch their property for them. -
1184
14.3 China, Confucianism comes
The dominant philosophy of China was based on Confucianism. He lived about 1,500 years before the Song dynasty. Confucious's ideas changed China majorly. -
1184
Chapter 14 China, modern day connection: philosophy
Because of Confucius’s philosophy that he brought to China, China was impacted majorly and still bases some of their ideas to his philosophy. -
1235
13.3 Africa, the empire of Mali begins
Mali lay on the Niger River just like Ghana. Mali's power grew under the rule of Sundiata. Sundiata conquered Ghana and took control of the salt and gold trading. Sundiata continued to support Mali in many ways until Mansa Munsa comes to power following by Askia the Great. -
1400
14.4 China, The Forbidden city is built during the Ming dynasty.
The Ming dynasty was known especially for their building projects. A spectacular example for this is the Forbidden City. Within all the building inside the Forbidden City there was 9,000 rooms. This is one of the many ways the Ming dynasty changed China. -
1400
16.2 the America’, the Aztec civilization develops
The Aztecs were people who especially admired art and beauty. They also valued learning and architecture. Like the Maya they were polytheistic and worshipped many gods. In the 1400s coquisadors attacked the Aztecs which eventually needed in a collapse. -
1400
16.3 The Incas develop a civilization
The Incas settled down In South America in a small t in on the Andes. Their ruler, pachacuti began to expand their territory in the mid 1400s. This was near the time of the Aztecs. Their language was Quechua and their civilization collapsed near the 1520s -
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Chapter 16 modern day connection roads
Today roads occupy almost every country in our world. I think the Incas are one of the reason for this. Just like the Romans and many other people roads were used. -
12.4 Arabia, Islamic people begin to achieve many advances
The cultural achievements of Islam some include Astronomy, medicine, geography, philosophy, and math. Most of these advancements, however, were influenced by other people and nations around them. Take medicine as an example, they had some of their greatest advances in it and combined the ideas of Greece and India to come up with new ideas. -
chapter 12 modern day connection
Because of the many advances in medicine, science, astronomy, and more, our modern world today is able to have major
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13.4 West Africa develops their own language
because of Africa's lack of a native written language, their history was passed along orally or in speech. These many storytellers of West Africa were called Griots. Africa had many ways of presenting their history like through music, dance, and even art.
