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Indian Empires

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Mahabodhi Temple, built on the site of an older temple by Asoka (c. 250 BC)
Indian Empires
  • Mauryan Empire
    • Chandragupta Maurya
    • Arthasastra by Kautilya
    • Asoka
    • Religious toleration
  • Tamil people
  • Gupta Empire
  • Patriarchial
  • Matriarchial
  • Mahayana Buddhism
  • Theraveda Buddhism
  • Stupas
  • Shakuntala by Kalidasa
  • Astronomy
  • Mathematics
    • zero
    • decimal system
    • pi
  • Medicine
  • What were the major Indian trade goods?
  • Silk Roads
  • Where did Indian culture spread to?

Han, Tang, and Song China

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Empress Wu Zetian was the only female ruler of the Chinese Empire during its 4000 year history.  She led a major expansion of Chinese territory, and gave major state support to Daoism, Buddhism, education, and the arts.
Han, Tang, and Song China
  • Han Dynasty
    • Emperor Liu Bang
    • Centralized government
    • Emperor Wudi
    • Xiongnu
    • Civil service examination
    • Chinese inventions:
      • Paper
      • Collar horse harness
      • Porcelain
    • Monopoly
    • Assimilation
    • Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian
    • Emperor Wang Mang
  • Sui Dynasty
    • Emperor Wendi
    • Grand Canal
  • Tang Dynasty
    • Emperor Tang Taizong
    • Empress Wu Zhao
    • Battle of Talas
    • Li Bo
    • Tu Fu
  • Song Dynasty
    • Emperor Taizu
    • Chinese inventions:
      • Mechanical clock
      • Printing
      • Gunpowder
      • Paper money
      • Magnetic compass
    • gentry
    • Foot-binding

The Mongol Empire

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Mongol soldiers, in Jami al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, 1305-1306
Mongol Empire
  • Steppes
  • Pastorialists
  • Clans
  • Temujin/Genghis Khan
  • Khanates
    • Khanate of the Great Khan (Mongolia and China)
    • Khanate of Chagatai (Central Asia)
    • Ilkhanate (Persia)
    • Khanate of the Golden Horde (Russia)
  • Pax Mongolica
  • Kublai Khan
  • Yuan Dynasty
  • Kamikaze
  • Marco Polo

Feudal Japan

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Miyamoto Musashi killing a giant creature, from The Book of Five Rings
Feudal Japan
  • Four largest islands:
    • Hokkaido
    • Honshu
    • Shikoku
    • Kyushu
  • Shinto
  • Kami
  • Yamato Clan
  • Amaterasu
  • How did the Chinese influence Japan?
  • What was life like at the Heian court?
  • The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki
  • Samurai
  • Bushido
  • Shogun
  • Daimyo
  • Oda Nobunaga
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Seppuku
  • Hostage system
  • Haiku
  • Matsuo Basho
  • Kabuki
  • Woodblock printing

Southeast Asia

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Borobudur on the island of Java in Indonesia is the world's largest Buddhist temple. It was constructed during the 9th-century.
Southeast Asia​
  • Indochina
  • Khmer Empire
    • Angkor Wat
  • Sailendra and Srivijava kings of Java
    • Borobudur
    • Palembang
  • Dai Viet
    • Ly Dynasty
  • Korea
    • Tan’gun
    • How did China influence Korea?
    • Silla
    • Wang Kon
    • Koryu Dynasty
    • Choson (Yi) Dynasty

African Peoples

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This South African dancer is dressed in traditional attire of the Zulu, a Bantu-speaking people.
African Peoples
  • Migration
  • Push-pull factors
  • Bantu
  • Slash and burn agriculture
  • Maghrib
  • Berbers
    • Almoravids
    • Almohads

African Civilizations

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Ibn Battuta (1304-1369) was a Moroccan traveller, geographer, botanist and judge who traveled over 73,000 miles during his life! From his North African home he visited Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and southern Africa. He was probably the most far-ranging human before modern times.
African Civilizations
  • Ghana
    • traded gold and salt
    • Animism
  • Mali
    • Sundiata
    • Mansa Musa
    • Hajj
    • Timbuktu
    • Gao
    • Ibn Battuta
  • Songhai
    • Sunni Ali
    • Askia Muhammad
    • What allowed Moroccans to defeat the Songhai?
  • Hausa
  • Yoruba
    • Ife
    • Oyo
  • Benin
    • Ewuare
    • Bronze artwork
  • Swahili language
  • Kilwa
  • Great Zimbabwe
    • Shona people
  • Mutapa Empire
    • Mutota​

Native Americans

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Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA was built by the Anasazi people of the modern American southwest.
Native Americans
  • Beringia
  • Ice Age
  • Clovis
  • Maize
  • Potlatch
  • Anasazi people
    • Mesa Verde
    • Pueblos
    • Kivas
  • Moundbuilders
    • Adena
    • Hopewell culture
      • Great Serpent Mound
    • Mississippian
      • Cahokia
  • Iroquois League
  • Great Spirit
  • Totems​

Aztecs and Incas

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Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti around 1450 AD.  It was abandoned after the Spanish conquest of Peru and remained largely forgotten until its rediscovery by an American archaeologist in 1911 AD.
Aztecs and Incas
  • Teotihuacan
    • Pyramid of the Sun
    • Obsidian
  • Toltecs
    • Topiltzin
    • Quetzalcoatl
  • Aztecs/Mexica
    • Tenochtitlan
    • Triple Alliance with Texcoco and Tlacopan
    • Chinampas
    • Great Temple
    • What was needed to keep Huitzilopochtli fed?
    • Montezuma II
  • Incas
    • Pachacuti
    • Road system
    • Quechua
    • Cuzco
    • Ayllu
    • Mita
    • Chasquis
    • Quipu
    • Religion:
      • Viracocha
      • Inti
      • Mamakuna
      • Yanacuna
      • Temple of the Sun
    • Machu Picchu
    • Huayna Capac
    • Atahulapa vs. Huascar

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  • America
    • Introduction
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      • Revolution
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    • 1848-1898
      • The Civil War
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    • 1898-1945
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      • The Great Depression
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    • 1945-1991
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    • Introduction
    • 1200-1450
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      • Renaissance
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