Crash Course World History

Crash Course World History 1

1. The Agriculture Revolution

15000 years ago
Controllable food supply

2. Indus Valley Revolution

Civilization

Surplus production
City
Specilized labour
Trade
Shared values (generally in the form of religion)
Social stratification
Centralized government
Writing

Indus valley civilization

flood plains of indus valley in today's pakistan
around 3000 BCE
Trading with mesopotamian civilization around 3500 BCE
Harappa
Mohenjadaro
Have drainage systems
The great bath
Traded cotton cloth with mesopotamia
No signs of warfare and no weapons
Around 1750 BCE declined
- conquest (by carcauses)
- Environmental disaster
- Earthquake

3. Mesopotamia

writing
taxes
Meso (between) + potamia (river) (tigres and euphrates rivers)
The epic of Gilgamesh
Writing giving by mesopotamia - Quinea form
Hameorabi - Kingdom of babylon
Neo-Assyrian empire (911 BCE - 612 BCE)

4. Ancient Egypt (3400 BCE - 525 BCE)

Nile river shaped the egypt
All the egypt was located on the sides of nile river
It provided transport and twice a year flooding with rich nutrients for agriculture
Dynasties
- Old kingdom (2649 BCE - 2152 BCE)
- Middle kingdom (2040 BCE - 1640 BCE)
- New kingdom (1550 BCE - 1070 BCE)
- In between there were intermediate kingdoms
Great pyramid for pharoah kufu
Heiroglyphics (sacred writing) and demotic script (recording contracts and agreements)
King Tut

5. The Persians & Greeks

Greeks gave music, democracy, idealization

Realism - The view that the subject matter of politics is political power, not matter of principle

Non-rhetorical question - Did the right side win the persian wars?

Persians - Monarchy (one-man rule)

life under persians pretty good (lot more stable and successful empires than democracies in history)

Greeks / Athenians - Democracy

Government corrupt
Life of women and slaves were very bad

Real questions of history -

What's the point of being alive
How should we organize ourselves
What should we seek from this life

6. Buddha and Ashoka

The Vedas (Indus valley civilization)
The caste system

Dharma - One's role in life and society primarily by birth and by caste

Bhagavada Gita is a 700-verse Hindu scripture in Sanskrit that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata(chapters 23--40 of the 6th book of Mahabharata).

Samsara, Moksha and Karma

Samsara - Cycle of re-birth, re-incarnation

Moksha - free from the cycle of re-birth

Karma - The doer of good becomes good, the doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action

5. Buddhism - 6th century BCE - Siddhartha Gautam - achieved Nirvana

Four noble truths

All life is suffering
The source of suffering is desire
To stop suffering, you must get rid of desire
Follow the 8 folds paths
- Right view
- Right intention
- Right speech
- Right action
- Right livelihood
- Right effort
- Right mindfulness
- Right concentration

Snakes & Ladders invented in India

7. Ashoka from Mauryan dynasty

United twice
- Mauryan Dynasty (321 - 185 BCE)
- Gupta Dyansty (320 - 550 CE)
Got into Buddhism after his army destroyed the Kingdom of Kalinga
Build stupas

Hinduism is highly flexible because God can take many forms

7. 2000 years of Chinese history! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius

Central government and core of bureaucrats that execute the wishes of that government (150 BCE to 1911 CE)
Shang dynasty (1600 - 1029 BCE)
Zhou dynasty (1029 - 771 BCE)
The warring states period (475 BCE - 221 BCE)
Qin dynasty (221 - 206 BCE)
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)
The three kingdoms period (220 - 280 CE)
Sui dynasty (581 - 618 CE)
Tang dynasty (618 - 907 CE)
Song dynasty (960 - 1271 CE)
Yuan dynasty (1271 - 1368 CE)
Red turban rebellion (1351 - 1368 CE)
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644 CE) (built the great wall)
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911 CE)

8. Alexander the Great and the Situation .. the Great?

Alexander of Macedon (356 BCE - 323 BCE)
Destroyed the Persian empire
After his death the empire broke down into 3 empires called the Hallenistic kingdoms - Antigonids, Seleucids and Ptolemies

9. The silk road and ancient trade

Network of roads

Others

The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or... Which was it?
Christianity from Judaism to Constantine
Fall of the Roman Empire...in the 15th Century
Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars all without a flamewar
The Dark Ages...How Dark were they really?
The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?
Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
Wait for it... The Mongols
Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade
Venice and the Ottomon Empire
Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols
Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He!
The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
The Columbian Exchange
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation
The Seven Years War
The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook
Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution
The French Revolution
Haitian Revolutions
Latin American Revolutions
Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution
Capitalism and Socialism
Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism
Imperialism
Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I
Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions
World War II
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War
Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
Globalization I - The Upside
Globalization II - Good or Bad?