Politics/Governme Innovation/Techno Environment Cultural Economics Social
nt logy
- Developmen - Ship-buildin - Spread of - Silk Road - Patriarchal
t of ig (Chinese Buddhism - Indian - Slavery in
Southeast junks, in Asia Ocean West
Asian states Middle - Indian - trans-Sahara African
- Developmen Eastern cultural n trade civilizations
t of dhows) influences - Regional - Continuity
Byzantine - China: in Southeast commercial and change
Empire (fall paper Asia networks in over time
of Rome) money, - Rise of the between
- Sui dynasty woodblock Islam Americas Tang and
- Tang printing, - Christianity expand Song
dynasty Grand Canal expands in - Decline of dynasties
- West - Europe: Europe, European - Caste
African three-field conflicts cities as system in
empires system of between trade centers South Asia
(Ghana) crop Western and - Crusades →
- Viking raids rotation, Eastern trade routes
into Europe iron plow churches between
- Rise of Europe and
Kievan Rus the Middle
- Rise of East
Islamic (Southwest
Empires Asia)
(Umayyad
overthrown
by Abbasid
in 750,
Abbasid
overthrown