Last Updated: 27 January 2019.
In Progress: Dates for all civilizations will be added by start of class on January 28. Dates based on Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, eds. Pollard, Rosenberg, Tignor (2015), Wikipedia, and ancient.eu.
- Forager societies (pre-3500 BCE)
- Unification + Old Kingdom Egypt (ca. 3100-2181 BCE)
- Middle Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2055-1650 BCE)
- New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1069 BCE)
- Sumerian City-States (ca. 3500-2334 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire (2334-2193 BCE)
- Babylonian + Neo-Babylonian Empires (1700s-800s BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BCE)
- Kingdoms of Israel and Judah (c. 1200-500s BCE)
- Greek City-States (c. 800-300s BCE)
- Phonecia (c. 1500-300s BCE)
- Achaemenid Empire (ca. 560-331 BCE)
- Ptolemaic Egypt (305-30 BCE)
- Indo-Greek territories (e.g., Bactria, Gandhara, etc.) (post-Alexander; 323 BCE-1300 CE)
- Indus Valley Civilizations (c. 3500-2000 BCE)
- Early India (c. 2000-323 BCE)
- Mauryan Empire (322-185 BCE)
- Gupta Empire (320-550 CE)
- Roman Republic (509 BCE to 31 BCE)
- Western Roman Empire (31 BCE to 476 CE)
- Must comprise more than biographies of empires
- Eastern Roman Empire (293 to 1453 CE)
- Germanic & Gothic Tribes & Kingdoms (ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE)
- Early Medieval Europe (ca. 400-800 CE)
- High Medieval Europe (ca. 800-1350 CE)
- Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 BCE)
- Zhou Dynasty (1045-771 BCE)
- Spring & Autumn Period + Warring States Period (722-221 BCE)
- Qin Dynasty (221-201 BCE)
- Must include more than Qin Shi Huang’s biography
- Han Dynasty China (201 BCE to 220 CE)
- Tang Dynasty China (618-907 CE)
- Sogdian Merchants (ca. 300s-500s CE)
- The Mongol Nation & Empire (1206-1368 CE)
- Yuan Dynasty China (1271-1368 CE)
- Early Islam (570-750 CE)
- Must be more than a biography of Muhammad
- Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 CE)
- Fatimid Caliphate (909-1171 CE)
- Kingdom of Morocco (1040-1465 CE)
- Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) (ca. 711-1469 CE)
- Mali Empire (ca. 1200-1500 CE)
- Aksum (ca. 100-940 CE)
- Kingdom of Pagan (849-1297 CE)
- Sukhothai (1238-1583 CE)
- Srivijaya (650-1377 CE)
- Khmer/Angkor Empire (802-1431 CE)