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The Sumerian-Babylonian civilization of Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Indus Valley Civilization, and Early China were the earliest known civilizations.

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The Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta.
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The empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya, who had overthrown the Nanda dynasty. By 320 BCE the empire had fully occupied Northwestern India, defeating and conquering the satraps left by Alexander. The kingdom was also successful under Ashoka.

Qin dynasty from 221-202 BCE, and the initial Han dynasty 201bce-9ce.

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The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. Advances such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them. Maya influence can be detected in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and western El Salvador to as far away as central Mexico,

The Gupta Empire which 320-550, the Mayans which were from 500-890, Byzantine Empire from 329-1464, and the Incas from 1108-1533.

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Tang China, Heian Japan, and the Abbasid Caliphate collapsed and was taken over.

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The Mongol Empire took over Europe and Asia. The Ottoman Empire took over most of Southeastern Europe.

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The Delhi Sultanate from 1200-1400, The Ming Dynasty 1370-1650, The Mughal Dynasty 1530-1700, and the Mali empire being founded on 1228.

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The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and and became renowned for the wealth of Mansa Musa. The Mali Empire had many profound cultural influences on West Africa, allowing the spread of its language, laws and customs along the Niger River. It extended over a large area and consisted of numerous vassal kingdoms and provinces.

Ottoman empire was founded by Osman Bey. It had territories in Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 under Mehmet II, the ottoman state was transformed into an empire.
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The Aztec Empire ruled in the valley of Mexico. The capital city of the Aztec empire was Tenochitlan. In 1521 Hercan Cortes invaded the Aztec Empire

Conflicts causing wars such as the Thirty Years War which was a series of wars fought in Central Europe. Religion was a motivation for war as Protestant and Catholic states battled it out even though they all were inside the Holy Roman Empire. Changing the relative balance of power within the Empire was at issue. Gradually, it developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe.

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The British took control of Canada, Africa, Australia, and India.

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The American Revolution from 1776-1783 was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed an independent nation, the United States of America. . The French Revolution from 1789-1799 was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. The Haitian Revolution from 1789-1804 was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti.

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The Expansion of the United States began. Wars with Mexico and Britain were fought to gain more land.
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Colonies were taken over by Britain, France, and Belgium and more.
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The Asian Revolution which began in 1905 and the Cuban Revolution which started 1953 was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

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WW1 from 1914-1918. WW2 from 1939-1945. The Cold War between the U.S. and Russia between 1945-1991.

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Trade in Africa dates back as early as 4000 B.C.E. with the Egypt trading with Nubian's. Items traded by Africans were iron, ebony, leopard skin, and gemstones for pottery, wine, and honey. Later on Egypt began to trade with other nations such as Mesopotamia in as early as 3500 B.C.E. and after 3000 B.C.E. In this trade between these two nations Mesopotamia traded Egypt cedar due to the Pharaoh's liking of trees and the lake of them in Egypt. The Egyptians offered gold, silver, linen, textiles, and dried food in exchange for the Mesopotamian's cedar. The Egyptians also started trading with East Africa, which they called Punt, in about 1450 B.C.E. The Punt today is probably modern-day Somalia and Ethiopia. From Punt they imported gold, ebony, ivory, cattle, aromatics, and human slaves. Egypt and the Punt exchanged many ideas and technologies helping each of these societies at the time. Although there was probably much trade with Africa besides the trade of the Egyptians not much is known about their trade because of lack of writing and information passed from those tribes.
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Not a religion but obtains followers in similar way as its religious counterparts.
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Indian Ocean trade Network joined East Asia, the Persian Gulf, China and Japan. Goods such as Spices, Cotton, Gold, Silver, and textiles were traded. Major ports include Mombasa, Mecca and Hormuz. The Trans-Saharan trade network, it was the only trade route between Europe and Africa for a long time. The Empire of Ghana was plentiful in gold, but they lacked salt. So the Empire of Ghana traded gold with Algeria for salt. It lasted from 300 BCE to about 1750.
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The Silk road extended 4000 miles from china to europe. The Silk Road was started by Han China and was again revived by the Pax Mongolica. Important cities along the silk road are Samar Khan Kashgar and Constantinople.
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Permanently separated classes in the Indian community. One could not go up and one can not go down the caste system.
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The idea of Feudalism was simple, work hard until your back breaks, and in return, you get land and protection.
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This wonderful art we learn in AP world known as "foot binding" was apparently attractive to men in China. This process included a painful and long duration of broken feet pointing in the wrong direction caused by tightly wrapped cloth around a child's foot.
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Zheng He made seven long voyages to Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and East Africa. He expanded Chinese trade, gained much knowledge about the outside world, and forced fifty states to pay tribute.
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The Colombian exchange started after Columbus discovered the New World. This exchange was between Europe and the New World. Products from the old world to the new world were chicken, cinnamon, barley and diseases such as chicken pox and the bubonic plague. Products from the new world to the old world were Potato, Strawberries, avocado and llama’s.
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This includes the major slave trade involvements throughout the Atlantic slave trade, African's were abducted from their home land and sold into slavery through the Atlantic Slave trade network.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade also known as the transatlantic slave trade, was the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. This trade lasted from 1500-1800. The gold trade in Africa was another major trade during that time period. Africa traded gold and ivory with countries from all around the world.
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Some examples for capitalism include the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1530, the first stock exchange, the East India Company which began in 1600 and lasted a few years, and the construction of the New York Stock Exchange in 1653.
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The Japanese closed trade with Europe in 1633 in an attempt to stay culturally the same and not adapt to the spread of catholism in Japan. The picture shows other countries attempting to enter Japan for trade.
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The Industrial Revolution from 1749-1850 was the transition to new manufacturing processes. It was a revolution worldwide. Economic Globalization began after world war in 1919 and is still going on.
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This group was founded to the reaction of the increased amount of Hindus in the country of India. It went national in 1901 but the first meeting didnt occur until 1906.
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Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalized racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation.
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