1. Time Period III 600 CE – 1450 CE

2. Main Ideas 3.1 = Exchange and communication networks expand and intensify 3.2 = State formation and interactions experiences changes and continuities 3.3 = Economic productive capacity increases and causes a lot of changes

3. Main Topics Covered Islam comes into being Islamic armies conquer & create empires The Byzantine Empire = Rome continued in the East Europe experiences disruption and new cultural forms (Vikings, feudalism, & the rise of Roman Catholic Christianity); Russia’s culture looks to Byzantium Tang and Song Dynasty China drive economic innovation (flying money, paper money, banking, & mass production) In the Americas, huge new empires develop (Maya & later Aztec & Inca) In West Africa, huge new empires develop & are in contact with the Islamic world (Ghana, Mali, Songhai) The Mongols cause huge amounts of exchange & stability and also chaos and disruption of older patterns of empire

4. Time Period IV 1450-1750

5. Main Ideas 4.1 – Communication and exchange networks finally become truly global and new systems develop (Columbian Exchange, silver, Atlantic System, mercantilism, joint-stock companies) 4.2 – New ways to organize society and produce goods are developed (indentured servitude, chattel slavery & serfdom, new ethnic categories develop as the world’s peoples mix) 4.3 – States consolidate their power and empires become bigger and more centralized (art & architecture legitimize rule, bureaucracy is more developed, religious rituals, tax farming & tribute-taking, HUGE land-based empires, new sea-based empires of Europe)

6. Main Topics Covered European & Ming Dynasty Renaissance & Exploration Periods European new contacts with West Africa, IOMS, & Conquest of American Indian Empires European Protestant & Catholic Reformation New Colonial Societies in the Americas Columbian Exchange (global event) Atlantic System (global event & causing European changes, especially) The New World Economy (sugar & slaves, silver to Asia, Asian production going up of luxury goods) Land & Sea-based Empires (Land: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Tokugawa, Qing, Russia; Sea: Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, France, Britain)