Foraging Societies

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Classical Empires

• Early River Valley Empires
• Expansion and Contraction of Empires
• Cosmopolitan Empires

• Formation of Eurasian Ecumene
• Barbarian Invasions
• Islamic Expansion
• Mongol Dominance
• Second Islamic Age

Unification of the Hemispheres

• Voyages of Exploration
• Chinese Dominance
• The New Imperialism

Formation of World Culture

• Modern Western Civilization
• The New Imperialism
• The World Wars
• Decolonization
• After the Cold War

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550 BC to AD 642: Cosmopolitan Empires develop in Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean c. 130 BC: Expansion of Han China to the Parthiam Empire c. 130 BC: Rome establishes its dominance in the Mediterranean 140-87 BC: Han China at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Wu Ti 98-117: Roman Empire at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Trajan 180-284: Crisis of Third Century Rome 220 The End of the Han Dynasty

Resources Primary Sources Strabo: Geography Tacitus: Annals Virgil: Aeneid Sima Qian: Zhang Qian Secondary Sources

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