600 C.E.--1450 C.E

By Alexw52
  • 570

    muhammad 570 - 632

    The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and lived in Mecca. Became known as a prominent merchant, and as an impartial and trustworthy arbiter of disputes. Muhammad began receiving revelations at the age of 40. The key themes of his messages in Mecca were the oneness of God and the rejection of polytheism, generosity towards the poor and the needy, kind treatment and emancipation of slaves,
  • Nov 26, 661

    ummayed dynasty 661 - 750

    The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty hailing from Mecca. The Umayyad family had first come to power under the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan but the Umayyad regime was founded by Muawiya ibn Abu S
    ufyan, long-time governor of Syria, after the end of the First Muslim Civil War in 661. Syria remained the Umayyads’ main power base thereafter, and Damascus was their capital
  • Nov 21, 710

    nara period 710 - 794

    Period of Japanese history during which the emperor resided in Nara. The capital city was modeled on the capital of Tang-dynasty China, Chang’an, from whom the Japanese borrowed extensively in this period. Buddhism, which had entered Japan a little more than a century earlier, rose in popularity, and many temples and statues were commissioned.
  • Nov 19, 762

    762--1258 Abbasid dynasty

    The second of the two great Sunnite dynasties of the Islamic Caliphate. The ‘Abbasids took their name from an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, al-’Abbas, whose descendants formed one of several groups agitating for change under the Umayyad dynasty. The Umayyad enforcement of a brand of Arab chauvinism, wherein non-Arab Muslims were relegated to a lower status, led to a revolution in which the ‘Abbasids claimed the Caliphate and enforced a more universal community of believers. This was symbolized
  • Nov 21, 1040

    saljuq control over abbsasid dynasty 1040 - 1157

  • Nov 21, 1066

    norman invasion of englan 1066

  • Nov 19, 1096

    first crusade 1096 - 1099

  • Nov 19, 1202

    fourth crusade 1202 - 1204

    In 1200 AD, Pope Innocent began to ask the rulers of Europe to participate in a fourth crusade, again attempting to take Jerusalem away from the Ayyubids who ruled there. Saladin had died in 1193 AD, and the Crusaders thought his successors were weaker and would be easier to beat. This time they would try something different. Instead of coming down from the north, the European armies would sail south to Egypt, and then come up from there to Jerusalem.
  • Nov 19, 1204

    Fall of constantinople 1204

    The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of that Greek city by the Turks under the command of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, . The Turks later changed the name of the formerly Greek city to Istanbul.Before the siege of the city began, the Ottomans were at peace with the Byzantine Empire. The Empire by this time consisted only of the city of Constantinople itself, the rest having been gradually conquered in the previous decades and centuries. In the over 1000 years of the existence of the Empire, C
  • Nov 20, 1206

    mongol conquest of all of china 1206 - 1279

    Genghis Khan was not satisfied to rule only his fellow Mongolians. Under his leadership the armies of Mongolia first conquered the other steppe nomads. As they did so, they became more powerful. These conquered peoples paid the Mongols tributes, giving them increased wealth. They also provided thousands of soldiers to fight in the Mongolian armies.
    In 1211 A.D., an army of over 100,000 horsemen invaded China. By 1270 A.D., all of China lay under the control of the Mongols.
  • Nov 22, 1206

    sultaanate of delhi 1206 - 1526

  • Nov 20, 1220

    kingdom of great zimbabwe 1220 - 1450

  • Nov 20, 1230

    mali empire 1230 - 1600

    Around 1200 A.D., a small city-state controlled by Ghana was able to win its independence. This city-state was named Mali. During the 1300s A.D., Mali expanded its territory and influence. By the late 1300s A.D., Mali controlled all of the former Kingdom of Ghana as well as much of the territory around it.This new kingdom faced many threats from both its neighbors as well as the people they had conquered. By the mid 1500s A.D., the peoples they had conquered began to rebel against their control.
  • Nov 21, 1265

    reign of mansa musa 1265 - 1370

  • Nov 21, 1265

    reign of Kublai Khan 1265 - 1294

    Mongolian general and statesman, grandson of Genghis Khan. conquered China and became the first emperor of its Yuan, or Mongol, dynasty. He was at the same time the overlord of all the Mongol dominions,which included areas as diverse as that of the Golden Horde in southern Russia, the Il-Khanate of Persia, and the steppe heartlands where Mongol princes were still living the traditional nomadic life—and the ruler of his own realm of China.
  • Nov 25, 1271

    yuan dynasty 1271 - 1368

    when the Mongols invaded and took over China, they had already been ruling a large empire for about fifty years. Their empire stretched from India and Russia to northern China and Korea.the Mongols captured the Sung capital at Hangzhou, the Mongols controlled all of China. Kublai Khan, the Mongol leader, moved the capital of the Mongol empire from Karakorum in Central Asia to Beijing, China. when he was 56, Kublai Khan declared himself emperor of China.
  • Dec 20, 1275

    marco polo's trip to china 1275 - 1292

    Marco Polo’s travels to China immortalized in his Travels of Marco Polo. Marco, his father, and uncle set out from Venice reaching China. The Polos spent a total of 17 years in China.
  • Nov 19, 1304

    Ibn Battuta 1304 - 1368

  • Nov 19, 1320

    first bubonic plague 1320 - 1340

    horrible disease struck Asia, Africa, and Europe. The people called this illness the Black Death. The disease started in Asia in the 1340’s. It quickly spread to Africa, and throughout Europe. Infected people first broke out with red ring shaped marks with dark center spots on their arms and necks. They would run high fevers. They became even more ill, and then they died. In just two years, 25 million people died of the plague. In ten years, the plague had killed over 1/3 of Europe’s population.
  • Dec 4, 1336

    tamerlane 1336 - 1405

    By the late 1300s A.D., the empire that Genghis Khan had built was almost completely gone. The Mongol people had returned to their nomadic ways of life, living in tribes, and moving from location to location in search of hunting grounds.
    in 1390 A.D., a new nomadic leader emerged. This leader, a man by the name of Timur Lenk (or Tamerlane in English) again united the different nomadic tribes of the Asian Steppe under his authority.Timur was a brutal and merciless warlord. this bruta
  • Nov 19, 1338

    hundred years war 1338 - 1453

    Campaings over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families. Final outcome was victory for the house of Valois, which succeeded in recovering early gains made by the Plantagenets and expelling them from the majority of France by the 1450s
  • Nov 20, 1338

    ming dynasty 1338 - 1453

    Some scholars believe that the Ming Dynasty was the greatest dynasty to rule China. Indeed, structures like the Great Wall and the Grand Canal were restored, and the Forbidden City was built during the rule of the first Ming Dynasty emperor.
    The new emperor focused greatly on China’s farmland and agricultural economy. As a result, China’s agriculture became a booming industry. Crops were plentiful and were sold at market, making a good deal of money for the farmers.
  • Nov 21, 1378

    schism between eastern and western christian church 1378 - 1417

  • Nov 19, 1438

    inca empire 1438 - 1533

    In the Andes Mountains around A.D. 1200 a civilization developed independently from the civilizations of Mesoamerica. This civilization would become known as the Incas.

  • kingdom of angkor 802 - 1351

    When King Jayavarman II moved a Khmer settlement to Siem Reap province and the settlement became an administrative centre of Khmer empire. During the reign of King Suryavarman II, in which Angkor Wat temple was built, the Chams from Champa from the East began armed incursions and sacked Angkor. Following the death of King Suryavarman II and the Cham invasion, Angkor is invaded and ransacked by the Thais, based in western part of the Khmer Empire.

  • kingdom of ghana 830 - 1235

  • song dynasty 960 - 1127

  • tang dynasty 618 - 907

    he Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty was interrupted briefly by the Second Zhou Dynasty when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, becoming the only Chinese empress regnant, ruling in her own right.

  • silla dynasty 668 - 935

    Kingdom of ancient Korea that in AD 668 consolidated other polities on the Korean peninsula under the Unified Silla dynasty. Silla emerged as a full-fledged kingdom in the 6th century. In a unique military corps, was organized; allied with Tang-dynasty. Adopted a Chinese bureaucratic structure, but its aristocracy was never replaced by a bureaucratic class based on merit. Silla art before unification shows a tendency toward abstraction; postunification art reflects Tang naturalism.

  • sui dynasty 589 - 618

    The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived Imperial Chinese dynasty. Preceded by Southern and Northern Dynasties, unified China for the first time after over a century of north-south division. It was followed by the Tang Dynasty.Founded by Emperor Wen of Sui, the Sui Dynasty capital was at Chang’an (which was renamed Daxing). His reign saw the reunification of Southern and Northern China and the construction of the Grand Canal.

  • heian period 794 - 1185

    Heian periods is a gradual decline of Chinese influence which, nevertheless, remained strong. Many of the imported ideas were gradually “Japanized”. In order to meet particular Japanese needs, several governmental offices were established in addition to the government system which was copied after the Chinese model, for example. In the arts too, native Japanese movements became increasingly popular. The development of the Kana syllables made the creation of actual Japanese literature possible.

  • reign of charlemagne 768 - 814

    Charlemagne regularized the central administration and implemented more direct influence on local affairs through expanded use of the written word. He developed special agents to investigate imperial affairs. These agents also taught the local officials what was expected of them and reported to the court on local conditions. Charlemagne also issued royal orders, capitularies, that informed local officials of royal intent and guided them in their actions in matters relating to public order.