Polis, 800’s-300’s BC, Greece
Oracle, 800’s-300’s BC, Delphi, Greece
Phalanx, 800’s-300’s BC, Greece
Delian League, 478-404 BC, Greece
Persepolis, 550-330 BC, Persian Empire (Iran)
Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC, Greece
Philip II, 382-336 BC, Macedonia
Xerxes, 519-465 BC, Persian Empire
Alexandria, 320’s BC-?, Egypt, etc.
Sophists, 5th century BC, Athens, Greece
Liu Bang, 256-195 BC, China
Gentry, Confucian-era China
Edict of Milan, 313 CE, Roman Empire
Chang’an, 200BC-Present (Xi’an)
Constantinople, 330-1453 CE, Turkey
Silk Roads, 200’s-1453CE, Asia
Punic Wars, 264-146 BC, Mediterranean
Hadrian’s Wall, 122-128 CE, England
Augustus, 27BC-14CE, Rome
Patricians, 500’sBC-500’sCE, Rome
Monsoons, Indian Ocean
Nirvana, 500’sBC - Present, India (origins)
Vedas, 1500’s-500’s BC, India
Caste system, 1500’sBC - Present, India
Siddhartha Gautama, 563-483 BC, India
Funan, 68-550 CE, SE Asia
Ashoka, 269-232 BC, India
Chandra Gupta, 320-330 CE, India
Sati, 1500s BC – 19th century CE, India
Jainism, 600’s BC - Present, India
Parthians, 247 BC – 224 CE, Iran
Zhang Jian, 200-114 BC, Han China
Sassanid Empire, 226-651 CE, Middle East
Stirrup, 100s BC - Present, Central Asia
Steppes, Central Asia
Great Traditions, 2000’sBCE-Present, Sub-Saharan Africa Great Traditions – typically include a written language, common legal & belief systems, ethical codes, and other intellectual attitudes (loom large in written records) Historians' term for a literate, well-institutionalized complex of religious and social beliefs and practices adhered to by diverse societies over a broad geographical area.
Bantu, 2000’sBCE-Present, Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopia, 800’s-300’s BC, NE Africa
Small Traditions, 2000’sBCE-Present, Sub-Saharan Africa Small Traditions – comprised of the diversity of local customs and beliefs “By the year 1 C.E. sub-Saharan Africa had become a distinct cultural region, though not shaped by imperial conquest or characterized by a shared elite culture, a “great tradition.” The cultural unity of sub-Saharan Africa rested on similar characteristics shared to varying degrees by many popular cultures, or “small traditions.” (Bulliet, 215)
Theravada (Buddhism), c.250BCE-Present, East Asia