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Empires: Timeline 2 (C. 100 BCE To 1300 CE)

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · History

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Topics in Empires: Timeline 2 (C. 100 BCE To 1300 CE)

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1. The world of trade and early expansion

  • By the sixth century BCE, Iranians controlled major parts of the Assyrian empire.
  • Trade networks developed overland and along the Mediterranean coasts.
  • Greek city-states and their colonies benefited from this trade growth.
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2. Alexander and the Hellenised world

  • Alexander, ruler of the kingdom of Macedon, undertook military campaigns and conquered parts of North Africa, West Asia, and Iran, reaching up to the Beas.
  • Alexander's soldiers refused to go further east at the Beas.
  • After the conquests, the region became Hellenised and Greek became a well-known language.
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3. Rome and the transformation into an empire

  • Rome's military forces established control over North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean from the second century BCE.
  • At that time, Rome was a republic.
  • In the middle of the first century BCE, under Julius Caesar, the Roman Empire was extended to present-day Britain and Germany.
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4. Christianity, Islam, and large empires

  • Christianity originated in Palestine in the early first century CE.
  • Jesus Christ lived in Judaea, a province of the Roman Empire.
  • Christianity was introduced in Axum in 330 CE.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Empires across continents and the movement of peoples, ideas, religions, trade, and power from c. 100 BCE to 1300 CE

Iranians and Assyrian empireGreek city-statesAlexander's campaignsRome's expansionChristianisation and imperial changeArab empireMongol expansionReligions and empires

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