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ANTEBELLUM YEARS (BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR) PRE-COLUMBIAN HISTORY (North America, Aztecs, Incas etc.) Aztecs (Mexico) Incas (Peru) North...

Alien and Sedition Acts Passed by John Adams 1820-1860 Irish immigration Irish potato famine Many were Catholic German immigrants Most to...

1400S 1453 Ottoman Empire takes Constantinople End of Hundred Years War 1469 Isabella and Ferdinand get married uniting Castile and...

Terminology "Viking" simply means "raider" Norse = north Norsemen = Men from the north Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden, Denmark Skraelingar...

TIMELINE 1492 - Columbus 1521 - Discovery of Mexican silver mines 1810 - Father Hidalgo El Grito (first stage of Mexican Revolution)...

Treaties Treaty of Versailles Incorporated Wilson's 14 points Little Entente Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia Main target was...

Presidents Harry S. Truman (D) (1945-1953) Election Became president after death of Franklin D. Roosevelt Foreign End of World War II...

BIG THEMES Paleolithic --> Neolithic (farming 8,000 BC) First Civilizations (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley) MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS...

TIMELINE 1918 WWI Ends 1919 League of Nations founded (Apr. 28) Treaty of Versailles is signed (Jun. 28) 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes head...

WORLD WAR I See post BETWEEN THE WARS AGE OF ANXIETY Postwar Pessimism U.S. and Americans suffering from malaise and disillusion In the...

NATIONALISM Because of Napoleonic Wars Inspired by French nationalism And desire to cultivate local national identity Based on shared...

BIG THEMES Industrialization Revolutions: American, French, Haitian, Latin American Scramble for Africa Opium Wars Meiji Restoration MOST...

BACKGROUND COLONIZATION 1815 -- West controlled 35% of the world 1915 -- West controlled 85% of the world Early Imperialism 1400s...

KEY POINTS Period of Recovery Period begins after fall of classical civilizations Fall of Han and Roman Empire (476) China and Europe...

SILK ROUTE Details Timeline: from 2nd c. BC to end of 14th c. Name Given in 1877 by a German geographer Because of lucrative Chinese silk...

Indo-Europeans/Aryans Xiongnu (Huns) European Migrations dkdk

-- Under Construction -- MESOAMERICA OLMECS KNOWN FOR: First Mesoamerican civilization They were the first to practice ritual...

COLONIAL PERIOD (1700-1800) ART Many colonial painters were itinerant artists who wandered countryside in search of families who wanted...

COLONIAL PERIOD Family was economic and social center of colonial life People married at a younger age and reared more children than in...

1944 Benelux: formed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg 1945 United Nations created. Five permanent voting members: U.S., U.K.,...