| A | B |
| Purpose of a time line | To show events chronologically (time order) |
| Command economy | The government determines production |
| Neolithic Revolution | Man domesticated animals, collected seeds, stopped being nomadic and civilizations developed |
| Code of Hummarabi | Harsh law code; an eye for an eye |
| Chinese accomplishments | gunpowder, civil service, porcelain |
| Religions that believe in spirits in nature | Animism and Shintoism |
| Constantinople | Good location to control key trade routes between Europe and Asia |
| Justinian Code | Law code; model for European legal systems |
| Economic activities on a manor/middle ages | Centered on agriculture |
| Self sufficiency | Growing enough to meet your own needs/practiced in traditional economies |
| Golden Age of Islam | Advances in math and science |
| Caste system | Inida's hereditary (based on birth) social classes |
| Mali | African trading kingdom/Mansa Musa/Timbuktu |
| Marco Polo/Ibn Battuta | Primary sources about trade and culture |
| Factors for Renaissance in Italy | Strategic location along the Mediterranean Sea |
| Black Plague | Spread by rats on ships/interaction of people |
| Protestant Reformation | Impacted by the invention of the printing press |
| Mercantalism | Colonies exist for trade/benefit of the mother country |
| Magna Carta/Petition of Right/English Bill of Rights | Limit the power of the English monarchs |
| Divine Rights of Kings/Mandate of Heaven | Claimed leaders power came from God |
| Peter the Great, Loius the XIV | Absolute rulers/expanded their territory |
| Russia's geography | Its cold winters and vast territory have protected it |
| Garibaldi | Fought for Italian unification/nationalism |
| Industrial Revolution | 1800's England/led to urbanization, child labor,slums |
| Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto/Workers should uprise and overthrow Communism |
| Totalitarian governments | Use censorship, secret police and repression |
| Tokugawa shogunate | Isolated Japan |
| Meiji Restoration | Westernized/modernized/industrialized Japan |
| Appeasement | European leaders gave in to Hitler's demands (Czechoslovakia) in the hopes he would be satisfied; he wasn't and continued to invade other places |
| Poland | Invaded by Hitler/Lacked natural barriers |
| The Partitioning of India | After independence because of religious differences between Hindus and Muslims |
| OAS/EU/NAFTA | Regional cooperation organizations |
| Chinese revolution after WWII | Aided by cooperation of the peasants who were promised land |
| African nations | Many were renamed after independence |
| Containment | US policy of halting the spread of communism/included Korean War. Vietnam War and blockade of Cuba/Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Korean War/Vietnam War | Fought over political ideologies during the Cold War |
| Chivalry/Bushido | Chivalry/code of conduct for knights and Japanese samurai |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | Marked the end of the Cold War |
| Iranian Revolution 1979 and Islamic Fundementalism | Created tension between traditionalism (old ways) and modernization |
| Scientific Revolution | Applied the ideas of the Enlightenment |
| Tutsis of Rwanda/Muslims of Kosovo | Both had human rights violations |
| Columbian Exchange | Movements of goods and people between old and new worlds |