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Europe
Classical Period: Politics
• Greeceo city-stateso aristocracieso direct democracieso Alexander the Great
Hellenism
• Romeo republic
dictatorship in times of crisis
o senateo Julius Caesaro Augustus Caesaro Constantine
Classical Period: Economy
• Greeceo agriculturalo traded wine and
grain o traded for Asian
spices and arto slaveryo sea trade
• Romeo agriculture in Africao traded for Asian
spices and arto slaveryo roads for trade
Classical Period: Religion
• polytheistic
• secular
• Constantine; Christianity in Rome
Classical Period: Culture
• Greeceo scholars believed in
human goodnesso art and literature
based on religiono little scientific
innovation; many theories
o Aristotle, Socrates, Plato
• Romeo engineering
aqueducts and roads
o large architectural structures domes
Classical Period: Interactions
• trade with India, China, and Middle East
• Punic Wars between Rome and the Phoenicians
• Alexander the Great’s empire
• Roman empire
Classical Period: Comparisons
Rome
republic
slavery
Han China
bureaucracy
no slavery
Both
foreign invasions
large empires
patriarchal
Classical Period: Continuities
• slavery
• city states (Greece)
• polytheism (Greece)
Classical Period: Changes
• republic to Empire (Rome)
• Christianity (Rome)
• increase in power of the emperor (Rome)
Postclassical Period: Politics
• Byzantineso Justinian
unified law codeo autocratic
• Holy Roman Empireo feudalismo Charles Martelo Charlemagneo crusades
Postclassical Period: Economy
• Byzantineso commercial center of
Europeo traded grain and silk
• Holy Roman Empireo manorialsimo little trade
Postclassical Period: Religion
• Byzantineso Orthdox Christianityo Great Schismo emperor is head of
church
• Holy Roman Empireo Catholicismo religion very importanto Great Schismo pope is head of church
Postclassical Period: Culture
• Byzantineso Hagia Sophiao Greek language
• Holy Roman Empireo poor living conditionso technologically
backwardo large differences
between nobility and peasants
Postclassical Period: Interactions
• Crusades
• trade with India, Africa, Arabs (Byzantines)
Postclassical Period: Comparisons
W. Europe
little trade
Christianity
Arabs
trade hub
Islam
Both
crusades
monotheistic
Postclassical Period: Continuities
• Feudalism
• technologically backward
• Catholicism
• Slavery
Postclassical Period: Changes
• Orthodox Christianity
• Muslim influence
Early Modern Period: Politics
• Enlightenment
• Constitutional Monarchy (Britain)
• Absolute Monarchy
• Feudalism
• colonization
Early Modern Period: Economy
• Mercantilism
• trading companies
• large amounts of gold and silver from colonizations
• large difference in wealth between western and southeastern Europe
Early Modern Period: Religion
• Protestant revolutiono Lutheranism, Anglican church, Calvinism
• Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Jean Calvin
• north became protestant; south remained Catholic
• English Civil War
Early Modern Period: Culture
• massive population increase
• scientific revolution
• movable type
• humanism
• neoclassicism
• European-style family - late marriage age, emphasis on families of parents and children
Early Modern Period: Interactions
• colonizationo N. America, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India,
coasts of Africa
• Battle of Lepanto
• trade with India
Early Modern Period: Comparisons
W. Europe
mercantilism
open to trade
China
regulated market
unopen to trade
Both
advanced sea travel
Early Modern Period: Continuities
• Feudalism
• Slavery
Early Modern Period: Changes
• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution
• Reformation
• Mercantilism
Industrial Period: Politics
• French Revolutiono start of end of Feudalism
• 1848 revolutions
• Imperialism
• Liberals, Conservatives, Radicals
• Napoleon, Robespierre
• Congress of Vienna
• Crimean War
Industrial Period: Economy
• Industrial Revolution
• Capitalism
• Proletariat class
• bourgeois
• early Socialism
Industrial Period: Religion
• Protestantism
• Catholicism
• Russian Orthodox
• Sunni Islam (Ottoman Empire)
• religion loses importance
Industrial Period: Culture
• poor living conditions
• romanticism in art
• realism in art (due to industrial revolution)
• abolishment of slavery
Industrial Period: Interactions
• trade with Africa, N. America, China, India
• Imperialism
Industrial Period: Comparisons
W. Europe
constitutional monarchy
industrial
Russia
feudalism
autocracy
agricultural
Both
protestant religion
patriarchal
Industrial Period: Continuities
• autocracy in Russia
• expansion
Industrial Period: Changes
• capitalism
• end of Feudalism
• abolishment of slavery
Modern Period: Politics
• World War I & II
• Cold War
• Fascism
• Liberal Democracy
• end of Imperialism
Modern Period: Economy
• Great Depressiono high unemployment and economic decline
• Communism in Russia
Modern Period: Religion
• Protestantism
• Catholicism
• Russian Orthodox
Modern Period: Culture
• poor living conditions
• women’s rights
• large advances in technology
• and science
Modern Period: Interactions
• World War I & II
• trade with most of the world o N. America, China, etc
Modern Period: Comparisons
W. Europe
capitalism
liberal democracy
Russia
communism
autocracy
Both
WW I & II
Modern Period: Continuities
• technological and scientific advancement
• autocracy in Russia
Modern Period: Changes
• liberal democracy
• end of imperialism
• women’s rights