1. Polis, 800’s-300’s BC, Greece

2. Oracle, 800’s-300’s BC, Delphi, Greece

3. Phalanx, 800’s-300’s BC, Greece

4. Delian League, 478-404 BC, Greece

5. Persepolis, 550-330 BC, Persian Empire (Iran)

6. Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC, Greece

7. Philip II, 382-336 BC, Macedonia

8. Xerxes, 519-465 BC, Persian Empire

9. Alexandria, 320’s BC-?, Egypt, etc.

10. Sophists, 5th century BC, Athens, Greece

11. Liu Bang, BC, China

12. Gentry, Confucian-era China

13. Edict of Milan, 313 CE, Roman Empire

14. Chang’an, 200BC-Present (Xi’an)

15. Constantinople, 330-1453 CE, Turkey

16. Silk Roads, 200’s-1453CE, Asia

17. Punic Wars, 264-146 BC, Mediterranean

18. Hadrian’s Wall, 122-128 CE, England

19. Augustus, 27BC-14CE, Rome

20. Patricians, 500’sBC-500’sCE, Rome

21. Monsoons, Indian Ocean

22. Nirvana, 500’sBC - Present, India (origins)

23. Vedas, 1500’s-500’s BC, India

24. Caste system, 1500’sBC - Present, India

25. Siddhartha Gautama, 563-483 BC, India

26. Funan, CE, SE Asia

27. Ashoka, BC, India

28. Chandra Gupta, 320-330 CE, India

29. Sati, 1500s BC – 19th century CE, India

30. Jainism, 600’s BC - Present, India

31. Parthians, 247 BC – 224 CE, Iran

32. Zhang Jian, 200-114 BC, Han China

33. Sassanid Empire, 226-651 CE, Middle East

34. Stirrup, 100s BC - Present, Central Asia

35. Steppes, Central Asia

36. 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.

37. Bantu, 2000’sBCE-Present, Sub-Saharan Africa

38. Ethiopia, 800’s-300’s BC, NE Africa

39. 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)

40. Theravada (Buddhism), c.250BCE-Present, East Asia