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TERMS FOR REVIEW

German prisoners of war, France 1918

9/4 Beginning at the end--the twentieth century in Europe
THE BACKGROUND progressivism "God is dead." socialism World War I World War II nationalism imperialism arms race alliances Triple Alliance Triple Entente Franco-Prussian War Alsace-Lorraine Paris Peace Conference	THE ITALIAN CONTEXT Napoleon Bonaparte Congress of Vienna Bismark Risorgimento Cavour Mazzini Garibaldi liberalism Realpolitik Victor Immanuel II transformisma FASCISM Benito Mussolini, d. 1945, Il Duce Socialism (Avanti) Fasci di combattimento March on Rome, 1922 Murder of Matteotti, 1924


9/6 Beginning at the end--the twentieth century in China
FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC Qing dynasty Xuantong (Puyi) Sun Yatsen Chinese Republic, 1912 nationalism Guomindang (Nationalist People's Party) warlords	TOWARD COMMUNISM Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 1921 Mao Zedong Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) Japanese occupation of Manchuria Long March, 1934 Maoism People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949

9/12-3 Classical Greece and Its Antecedents

THE NEAR EAST

3rd millenium B.C.E.

Sumer, cuneiform script

Egypt, hieroglyphic script

2nd-1st millenium

Hittites, iron

Lydians, gold

Hebrews, monotheism

Assyrians, Chaldeans, astral religion

Persians

THE AEGEAN WORLD

Europe

Crete, Knossos, Minos

Mycenae

Dorian invasian

Dark Ages

polis, poleis

Archaic period

Homer, Hesiod, epic

Thales, Miletus, natural philosophy

Pidar, Sappho, lyric

ATHENS

Persian War--Marathon 490, Salamis 480

Athenian democracy

Delian League

Sparta, Peloponnesian War 431 ff.

Pericles

Thucyduides

Macedonian conquest 338

9/17 Ancient Empires
EARLIEST CHINA Xia dynasty, late third millenium, sage kings, Yu Shang dynasty, later 2nd millenium, bronze Yellow River, water control, millet Tangzi River, rice oracle bones Zhou dynasty, early first millenium, decntralization Warring States, last two centuries of Zhou Confucius, d. 479 B.C.E. Chinese classics filial piety, patriarchy ren, li Mencius, d. 289 B.C.E. Daoism Laozi, sixth century wuwei, Daodejing Legalism

Qin and Han dynasties Sima Qian, historian, 2nd C B.C.E. Qin dynasty, 221 B.C.E. ff. Qin Shihuangdi, d. 210 centralized bureaucracy, eclipse of nobility peasant cultivators, infrastructure book-burning, standardized script Xi'an
Liu Bang Han dynasty, 206 B.C.E.-220 B.C.E. Xiongnu Han Wudi, fl. 100 B.C.E. Administrative centralization, granaries, imperial expansion imperial university Legalist policies, Confucian education iron, textiles, silk, paper, long-distance trade external stresses, social dislocation rich landowners, poor peasants Wang Mang, 9 C.E. Later Han, 23 C.E. ff. court factions feudalism

Roman Republic Hellenistic Stoicism Roman Republic, 6thC B.C.E. Punic Wars, mid-3rd-mid-2ndC B.C.E. primus inter pares patria potestas consul, senate, assemblies oligarchy Tiberius Gracchus, d. 143 B.C.E. Julius Caesar, d. 44 B.C.E.

Roman Empire Octavianus Augustus, Augustan settlement 27 B.C.E. Vergil Marcus Aurelius, 2ndC border conflict Diocletian, late 3rdC tetrarchy littoral
mystery religions suncretism Constantine, in hoc signo vinces Augustine of Hippo Adrianople Gothic sack Arianism Franks
Thinking historiographically, thinking comparatively Edward Gibbon Henri Pirenne Peter Brown H'ra 622 C.E. chronological parallelism internal prosperity differently founded political system differently fueled collapse toward feudalism

9/19-9/20 China after the Han

Zhang, ambassador of Han Wudi

Silk Road

Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Christians in Central Asia

disease: smallpox, measles, plague

"losing the mandate of Heaven--cyclicalism

collapse of Han 220 C.E.

350-year chaos, devastation of old capitals, nomadic invasion, incorporation of barbarians into Chinese culture, introduction of Buddhism

Sui dynasty 589-618: unification, harsh rule, Grand Canal

Tang dynasty 618-907: rebuilding of Shang'an. Confucian administration, low taxation, prosperity, communication, equal field system, civil service exam, reverence for scholarship

Song dynasty 960-1279

Gunpowder, paper, printing, shipbuilding, compass

foot-binding

Neo-Confucian Buddhism

13thC occupation by Mongols, Kubilai Khan

Middle Kingdom, kowtow, tribute, suzerainty

9/25 The Medieval West
Benedict of Nursia Merovingians Charles Martel Carolingians Charlemagne, Christmas Day 800 Caroline minuscule Vikings, Magyars, Saracens Treaty of Verdun elective monarchy lay investiture Holy Roman Empire feudalism manorialism reform orders, vita apostolica Bernard of Clairvaux classical humanism cult of the Virgin Peter Abelard Francis of Assisi Burckhardt Haskins