World history timeline √

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A financialeconomicdepression, national rivalries and thecompetition foroil precipitateWorld War II. Military dictatorships in Germany, Italy, and Japandoomedimperial rule. Central Europe,Central Asia, China, N. Korea andN. Vietnam turn communist. U.S. use nuclearbombson Japan; launch American Empire.
Nation-statesresultfrom former European colonies. The United Nationsform toallay conflicts and prevent wars. Two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Unionentera Cold War; stockpilenuclear armaments.
A Timeline of World History
Oral English, SAUJaime Ravelo Vergara, facilitator
Ancient (3500BCEto 500CE)
Middle Ages (500-1499)
Modern (1500-1899)
Global (1900-Present)
City States byMesopotamia’sTigris and Euphrates birthcuneiform script;set foundationof Abraham’sbooks of faith:Moses(Torah), Iesu(Biblos), and Mohammed(Koran).
Harappacity planningand urban infrastructurein theIndus Valley.Nile and Egypt leadtranscendent ideas and pyramidal structures.
Lands between Huanghe and Chiang Jiang createZhongguo(middle)mindset, standard writing and measurementsdevelop,balancedsocial familyarticulated byConfuciusandLao-tzu, and the Silk Road advance trade and commerce.
IntrospectiveMing give way toexpansive Manchu Qing.
Europedominateworld inwealth and power, strained by rivalry for natural resources that led toWorld War I. This result in weak kingdoms and new ideologies. Russia turncommunist, and fascist Europe turnmilitant.
Athens and Sparta of Greeceadvancepolitical democracyand republic; Alexander ofthe Great ofMacedoniaspreadsHellenic culture to Pห้องสมุดไป่ตู้rsia and India.Socrates, Plato, Aristotleguidephilosophicaldiscourse.Centralize command of an empire from Rome.
Islam’sgolden agecreate“Muslim”, one who submits to Allah, endwhen the Mongols sack Baghdad. Islam spreadto Indonesia.
Khmer empire in Angkor Wat; the Majapahit empire in SEA; Tu’iTonga in Oceania.
Russia’sIvanbecomes Tsar andannex Turkic Khanates.
Gutenbergbuild modularprinting press;advanceliteracy.
Protestant reformssubvert Romanpreeminence.
Enlightenmentand scienceaffirm human endeavor; liberalizethe politics of freedom and democracy.
Space Explorationbecame an areaof collaboration,results inglobalization of economics anddevolution of political power.
Globalcultures emerge.
Mesoamerica flowerZapotec, Maya,andOlmeccultures.
RomulusAugustusrule endthegeo-empire of Rome.
Sui and Tang v. Turks;Tamerlaneprevailedafter Genghis Khan.
The Holy Roman Empire see Pope and Emperor strugglethe dialectic of the city of man and the City of God.Tomas de Aquinas sum-up apex of Catholic thought.
Mongol-Tatar rule over Russia and Central Asia,Yuan dynasty in China.
European Renaissancerediscover world’s science, and usheran age of inquisitiveness that led to humanism. ArtistsDaVinci and Michelangelo inspirethe term “renaissance man”.
The “sun never sets” empire began with the Iberian Union of Spain and Portugal; northern Europe of the English, French, and Dutch took to the Atlantic, culminating in Napoleonfall to Britishnew world power.
Columbus landin America. Tasman and Cook leave footprints in the Pacific.
Ottoman Empire in the Middle East; Ming dynasty in China; the Muslim Mughal in India triumphs,replacedby the Hindu Maratha Empire whobows tothe British.
Europe discover world: Portugal overthrow Malacca Sultan, British in Burma and Malaysia, the French in Indochina, Dutch in the East Indies and Spain in the Philippines.