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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c. 30,000 to 25,000 BC: Woman of Willendorf c. 27,000 to 23,000 BC: Dolni Vestonice 25,000 - 12,000 BC: Venus Figures 18,000 BC: Chauvet cave, France 15,000 BC: Lascaux cave paintings c. 14,000 to 10,000 BC: Altamira Cave Paintings 12,000 to 8,000 BC: The Ice Age

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