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1st Time Line World History

By tarrichards21
  • 739 BCE

    Axum

    The Creation of Axum as a City-State
  • Period: 730 BCE to 1500

    The Muslim World and Africa

    Trading States of East Africa
  • Period: 700 BCE to 1100

    Ghana Empire

    The introduction of the camel, brought about the gradual revolution in trade, and fro the first time, the extensive gold, ivory, and salt resources of the region could be sent north and east to population centers in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe in exchange for manufactured goods.
  • Period: 618 BCE to 907 BCE

    Tang Dynasty

    Imperial examination system perfected. Liberal attitude towards all regions, spread of Buddhism in China. Golden Age of foreign relations with other countries, Japan, Korea, Persia. New technologies pricing, porcelain, gunpowder, mechanical clocks. More cosmopolitan culture. Reestablished the safety of the Silk Road. Tea comes into China form Southeast Asia.
  • Period: 581 BCE to 618 BCE

    Sui Dynasty

    Had the "Land Equalization" system: land redistribution. Unified coinage. Grand Canal constructed. Also established an army of professional soldiers. The people were overworked and overtaxed.
  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty

    Established China's first empire. The legalist ruled, bureaucratic administration, centralized control, military expansion, books burning targeting Confucianists, also buried protestors alive! Built a large section the Great Wall.
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220 BCE

    Han Dynasty

    Paper invented (105 B.C.E). Silk Read trade develops; improves life for many. Buddhism introduced into China. Also expanded into Central Asia.
  • Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE

    Emperor Wudi

    He started public schools, colonized Manchuria, Korea, and Vietnam. Had the civil service system.
  • Period: 722 to 1492

    Reconquista

  • Period: 1095 to 1291

    Crusades

    9 crusades
  • Period: 1206 to 1290

    Slave/Mamluk Dynasty

    Aibak was the first ruler and his son Aram Shah was chosen as the second ruler, but when his daughter married Iltmish, Iltmish kills Aram. Then he has multiple sons and a daughter called Razia. He choose his daughter to become the Sultan, which had never happened before because she was a female and female are not suppose to have power, she tried everything to get the people on her side and made the country better but was later thrown off as Sultan and her brother took over.
  • Period: 1235 to

    Mali Empire

    The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for its wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa who in the 13th year of his reign went out on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca. He had 60,000 men accompany him and he also brought 80 camels loaded with 300 pounds of gold each.
  • Period: 1290 to 1320

    Khiliji Dynasty

    Alauddin proclaimed himself as the sultan, he kept the Mongrals out, he also changed the government, bye creating a spy system to keep an eye on the nobles, and cracked down on the nobles, he also reformed the military by bringing horses.
  • Period: 1315 to 1317

    The Famine

    By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate. The population crisis developed. Climate changes in Europe produced three year of crop failures between 1315-17 because of excessive rain/ As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died. One consequence of starvation & poverty was susceptibility to disease.
  • Period: 1320 to 1414

    Tughlaq Dynasty

    Move the capital city to another city and didn't like it so moved it back to where it was originally. Then tried to change the copper coin to silver, but then fake money started happening. They also raised taxes. The Mongrels ended this Dynasty
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years' War

  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    The Black Death

    1/3 of the population of Europe died. The Mortality Rate 35%-70%, 25,000,000 dead!!
  • Period: 1414 to 1451

    Sayyid Dynasty

    Almost the exact same thing as the tughlaq dynasty did they did.
  • Period: 1451 to 1526

    Lodhi Dynasty

    Almost the exact same thing as the tughlaq dynasty did they did.
  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    Wars of the Roses

  • Period: 1464 to

    Songhai Empire

    It was a precolonial African state centered in eastern Mali. From he early 15th to the late 16th century, it was one of the largest African empires in history. Its capital was the city of Gao. Its base of power was on the bend of the Niger River. When sunni Ali came to power, it was a small kingdom in western Sudan, but during his twenty-eight-year reign, it grew into the largest, most powerful empire in West Africa. Also created education. The Morocco invaded it and had firearms so they won.
  • Period: 1478 to

    Spanish Inquisition