Fuedalism, rise of christianity, dominance of catholicism and the papacy.

Renewed Interest in classical learning, humanism, and the liberal arts.

Emerging Italian trade dominance (Florence, Rome)

Europeans exploration and colonization of most of the Americas, global trade networks and cultures between continents

Agrarian handcraft economies to industrial society

Urbanization and massive technological social changes

Geopolitical tensions rising causing a rush to African Territory

Emerging dominant powers like the British Empire in both colonial and naval dominance.

Gave principles of limited government and individual rights.

Framework and lead to the constitution.

Inca's - 1532-1533

1776 - Watt Steam Engine

1785 - First Textile Mille by Steam Engine

1804 - First Steam Locomotive

1825 - Stockton to Darlington Railway in England

1833 - Passage of the Factory Act, child labor regulations

1837 - Telegraph

1848 - Communist Manifesto published

1859 - Discovery of oil in Pennsylvania

1861-65 - American Civil War

1866 - North German Confederation treaty, uniting the north German States

1869 - First Transcontinental Railroad in the US

1871 - NGC takes the southern states, becoming the German Empire, or the Duestche-Reich,

1898 - Spanish American War, America takes countries from Spain

1899-1902 - The Boer War

1899-1901 - The Boxer Rebellion

1902 - Anglo-Japanese Alliance to counter Russian Expansionism

1904-1905 - Russo Japanese war, Japan defeats Russia, humiliating them on the world stage.

1908 - Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina,

1917 - Leninist Revolution in Russia

1919 - Treaty of Versailles

1919 - Establishment of the League of Nations

1929 - Stock Market Crash and great depression

1933 - Rise of Adolf Hitler

1936-39 - Spanish Civil War, Nationalists Win

1938 - Munich Agreement, Nazi Germany takes sudentenland in Czechoslovakia

• September 1 - Germany Invades Poland

• September 3 - Britain and France declare war on Germany

1940

• May 10 - Germany Blitzkriegs western Europe, invading Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France

• June 10th - Italy enters war on the Axis Side

• June 22 - France Surrenders to Germany

• July-October - Battle of Britain

1941

• June 22 - Operation Barbarossa

• December 7th - Pearl Harbor

• December 8th - USA declares war on Japan, Germany does the same on America

1942

• June 4-7th - Battle of Midway

• November 8-11 - Operation Torch

1943

• July: Invasion of Sicily

• November 28 - December 1st - Tehran Conference

1944

• June 6th - DDay

• August 2th - Liberation of Paris

• December 16th - Battle of the Bulge

1945

• Feburary 4-11 - Yalta Conferance

• April 12th - FDR becomes president

• April 30th - Adolf Hitler commits Suicide

• May 8th - Victory in Europe Day

• September 2th - Victory over Japan day

1947 - Truman Doctrine

1948-49 :

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO Established

1950 - 53 :

• Korean War

1955 :

• Establishment of the Warsaw Pact

1956 :

• Hungarian Revolution

1961 :

• Berlin Wall

1962 :

• Cuban Missile Crisis

1969 - 72 :

• Apollo 11, First man on the moon

• SALT Program

1985-1991:

• Gorbachev in Office

• 1989, fall of the wall.

• 1991 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union