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World Geography:
This ancient tablet from the 7th Century BC depicts
the world at the time of Sargon (2300 BC) as a circle
surrounded by water, with Babylon at its center.
Locations of Continents.
Locations of Oceans, seas and major Rivers.
Location of key political units prior to 1000 (Roman Empire, Abbasid
Caliphate, Sudanic kingdoms of Ghana and Nubia, Chinese empire [Han
and Tang dynasties], Byzantine Empire, Mayan Civilization)
Economic Systems:
Agricultural, pastoral, and foraging societies and their demographic
characteristics.
Basic Characteristics of economic structures including technological
patterns (Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages)
Crises of Late Antiquity
(3rd–Eighth Centuries)
Movements of peoples (Huns, Germans and Arabs)
Collapse of Empires (Han China, loss of European portion of the
Roman Empire ).
Emergence of new empires and political systems (Tang China, Arab
caliphates, Byzantine Empire, early European and Japanese feudal
systems).
Key Cultural and Social Systems (Research Cubes)
Basic features of major world belief systems prior to 1000 and where
each belief system was applied by 1000.
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