Can you name each of the regions circled? Can you summarize the history of each of the regions circled?

Directions: Name the cultural region depicted on the map by each letter. Then summarize the history of each period and region by naming major developments, societies in power, distinguishing characteristics of societies.

Major Global Themes / A= Western Europe / D= Mid-East / E. Med / F= South Asia / H= East Asia / Minor Regions
Classical Period
( 1000 BCE – 600 CE )
Begin
Mid
End
Postclassical Period
( 600 - 1450 )
Begin
Mid
End
Early Modern
( 1450 – 1750 )
Begin
Mid
End / Greek city-states
Hellenistic empires
Roman Empire
Fall of W. Rome & Spread of Christianity
Early Middle Age
-manorialism
-feudalism
Christianity splits
Crusades
High Middle Ages
Bubonic plague
Renaissance
Exploration of Africa Discovery of Americas
Reformation
Commercialization
Nation-states
Enlightenment / Persian Empire
Hellenistic empires
Roman Empire
E. Rome continues
Spread of Christianity
Islam
Umayyad Caliphate
Byzantium losing land
Abbasid
Mongols
Roots of Ottomans
Ottomans capture Constantinople & unify Middle East
Ottoman long, slow decline due to losing trade revenue to Europeans / Caste system created
Hindu books written
Buddhism
Maurya
Regional fragmentation
Hinduism & Buddhism spread to SE Asia
Gupta
Regional fragmentation
Hindu-Muslims tension
Hindu-Muslims accommodation
Delhi Sultanate
Mughal Empire begins
Akbar
Aurangzeb
More British East India Company influence / Zhou
Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism
Qin
Han
-Exam system
-Silk Road
Buddhism spreads
Sui
Japanese borrowing
Tang
Song
Southern Song
Japanese feudalism
Yuan
Ming & Zheng He
Ming decline
Japanese borrowing
Tokugawa
Qing begins / Olmec
Indo-Europeans & Iron
Bantu expansion
Justinian
Ghana
Gold-Salt trade
Cyril & Methodius
Kievan-Russia
Islam spreads to Africa
Mali
Swahili city-states
Sufi in SE Asia
Aztecs & Incas
Columbian exchange
SE Asia spice trade
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great