Foraging Societies

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Classical Empires

• Early River Valley Empires
• Expansion and Contraction of Empires
• Cosmopolitan Empires

• Formation of Eurasian Ecumene
• Barbarian Invasions
• Islamic Expansion
• Mongol Dominance
• Second Islamic Age

Unification of the Hemispheres

• Voyages of Exploration
• Chinese Dominance
• The New Imperialism

Formation of World Culture

• Modern Western Civilization
• The New Imperialism
• The World Wars
• Decolonization
• After the Cold War

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1793: The Revolutionary government in France issues the levee en masse 1819: The Carlsbad Decrees disband the Burschenschaften. 1832: The Great Reform Bill reorganizes Parliament in Great Britain 1872: Bismarck, the Chancellor of the German Empire, begins the Kulturkampf 1884: The Third French Republic legalizes trade unions 1889: The Boulanger Affarir in France 1892: James Keir Hardie, a Scottish Miner, sits in the House of Commons 1894: The Dreyfus Affair begins in France 1896: Theodor Herzel publishes The Jewish State beginning the Zionist Movement 1913: Britain's Trade Union Act grants unions certain legal rights

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