World history

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Artifact

Objects of historical value made by humans

Historiography

The art and science of creating a reliable and useful story from bits about the past.

Mitochondrial Eve

The single human female ancestor all humans share.

Hunter Gatherers

People who survive by hunting animals and gathering wild plants.

Adapted

Developed characteristics to help them survive in a certain environment.

Neanderthals

An extinct species of early humans who already lived there.

Indigenous

Native peoples

Neolithic

New stone age.

Agriculture

The cultivation of plant foods and domestication of animals as sources of food and labor.

Domestication

Taming something for human use.

Economy

The system for producing and obtaining goods and services.

surpluses

supplies of goods and labor not needed for short term survival. (a lot of it)

Diaspora

spread of people from their original homeland

Migrate

moving from one country to another for a certain reason.

200,000 years ago

Homo sapiens sapiens replaced the Neanderthals

8000 BCE

The neolithic revolution begins in the middle east.

2340 BCE

Akkadians set up the first empire

1500BCE

Aryan migration began out of central Asia

403 BCE

period of warring states in East Asia begins

750 BCE

Dark age of Greece ends

330 BCE

Alexander the Great of Macedonia takes possession of the roman empire

313 CE

Constantine the first Christian emperor of Rome issued the edict of Milan

476 CE

The Visigoths sack Rome marking the end of the western Roman empire

622 CE

Muhammad and his followers journey to Medina

1096 CE

The Crusades Begin

1258 CE

Baghdad the capital of the Abbasid caliphate is sacked by the Mongols.

1312 CE

Mansa Musa begins reign as Mali’s King

1398 CE

Timur Mongol leader of Samarkand sack Delhi leading to the end of the Delhi Sultanate.

1400 CE

Islamic state forms in Melaka on Malay Peninsula.

1453 CE

Constantinople the capital if the Byzantine Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire.