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The Late Classical Period

200CE – 600CE
To what extent did the Classical Period end?

AP World History
Richard Smart
Oakland Mills High School
Movement of Peoples

 The Huns (200s – 400s


CE)

 Germanic Peoples
(300 – 700CE)

 The Bantu
 I: 3000 – 1500BCE
 II: 1000 – 500 BCE
 III: 500BCE – 500 CE
Trade Networks

Consequences
Where?  Economic benefits
 Silk Road
 Spread of religion
 Indian Ocean
 Spread of disease
 Trans-Saharan

 Connecting societies
 Classical Empires
 Sub-Saharan Africa
 Central Asian Nomads
Collapse in Rome, Gupta
India and Han China
Comparisons Contrasts
 Nomadic Invaders  Survival of Roman
 Increased state in the Eastern
parochialism Mediterranean.
 Population decline  Greater continuity

 Decreased trade of culture in India.


 Assimilation of
 Religious changes
nomads in China;
 Continuing cultural
New society in
influence Western Europe
Key Features from Period 1:
8000BCE – 600CE

 Development of agriculture and the


beginning of societies.
 Creation of complex societies.

 Inter-regional trade

 Development of World Religions

 Isolation of Western Hemisphere

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