AP World History Modern Periodization

Which time period?  Neolithic Revolution

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750

River Valley Civilizations such as Huang He, Indus Valley, Egypt, and Mesopotamia

• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• to 600 B.C.E
• 1450-1750
• 600 C.E. to 1450

Pastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of new weapons (such as compound bows or iron weapons) and modes of transportation (chariots, horseback riding) that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations. 

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750

Epic of Gilgamesh and the Rig Veda

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E.
• 1450-1750
• 600-1450

First instance of ancestor worship

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750

Inter regional travelers such a Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo

• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750
• 1750-1900

Empires: Egypt and Persia

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750

Carthage, Alexandria, Constantinople founded and flourished

• to 600 B.C.E.
• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750

Interregional trade growth in luxury goods (silk, porcelain) leads to innovations in transportation (compass, astrolabe, caravans/camel saddle)

• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 600-1450
• 1450-1750
• 1750-1900

Crusades

• 600-1450
• 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
• 1450-1750
• 1750-1900