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511
Clovis unites the Franks into one kingdom.
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527
Justinian becomes ruler of Byzantine Empire.
Chapter 11 -
527
Justinian becomes emperor of Byzantine.
Chapter 13 -
Jan 1, 622
Muhammad leaves Mecca
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 630
Muhammad returns to Mecca after making the Hijrah to Medina.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 630
Muhammad unifies Arabian Peninsula under Islam
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 632
Muhammad's death
Chapter 15 -
Jan 1, 632
Abu-Bakr becomes first caliph.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 732
Charles Martel defeats the Muslims at Tours.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 732
Charles Martel stops Muslim invasion
Chapter 13 -
Jan 1, 750
Abbasids take control of the Muslim Empire.
Chapter 13 -
Jan 1, 751
Muslim armies defeated Chinese at the Battle of Talas
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 762
Abbasids move the capitol of Muslim to Baghdad.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 771
Charlemagne becomes ruler of Frankish Kingdom in Europe.
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1000
Muslim scholars, who preserved Greek medical works, shared them with Europeans.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 1041
The movable type (system of printing and typography) is invented in China.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1054
Christian Church divides.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 1054
The pope expels the patriarch of Constantinople.
Chapter 12 -
Oct 14, 1066
Normans & Anglo-Saxons fought the Battle of Hastings.
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Jan 1, 1095
Pope Urban II launches the first Crusade.
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1099
Crusaders captured Jerusalem
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1100
Muslim literature flourishes.
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 1185
The feudal military government, Kamakura Shogunate, rules Japan.
Chapter 13 -
Jan 1, 1187
Muslims recover Jerusalem
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1190
Holy Roman Empire begins to weaken and decline.
Chapter 13 -
Jan 1, 1192
Emperor gave a Minamoto leader the title of shogun.
"supreme general of the emperor's army"
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1200
The Khmer Empire reached the peak of its power
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1204
The Fourth Crusade to capture Jerusalem failed.
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Jan 1, 1206
Genghis Khan unites the steppe tribes.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1209
Genghis Khan begins the Mongol conquest
Chapter 10 -
Jan 1, 1212
Children's Crusade
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Jun 15, 1215
The Magna Carta is approved.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1225
Central Asia is under Mongol control.
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Jan 1, 1235
Kingdom of Mali emerges.
Chapter 15 -
Jan 1, 1240
Mongols dattacked and demolished Kiev
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1275
Marco Polo arrives at Kublai Khan's court
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1279
Kublai Khan establishes Yuan Dynasty and unifies China.
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1324
Mansa Mansa makes pilgrimage to Mecca
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1325
The Aztec establish the city-state of Tenochtitlan.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic plague reaches Europe.
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1347
Genoese ships arrived in Sicily carrying bubonic plague.
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Jan 1, 1352
Historian & traveler, Ibn Battuta, visits Mali.
Chapter 15 -
Jan 1, 1392
Koryu Dynasty is overthrown, land reforms are instituted
Chapter 12 -
Jan 1, 1415
Jan Hus burned at the stake
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Jan 1, 1417
Pope Martin V is chosen, Great Schism is ended.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1429
Joan of Arc led the French army into battle.
Chapter 14 -
May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1453
Constantinope is conqured by the Ottoman Turks.
Chapter 11 -
Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Year's War ends. The French are victorious.
Chapter 14 -
Jan 1, 1492
Sunni Ali's death
Chapter 15 -
Jan 1, 1502
Montezuma II becomes emperor of the Aztec Empire.
Chapter 11 -
Pope crowns Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
Chapter 10 -
Al-Khwarizmi writes the first algebra textbook.
Chapter 10 -
Chinese invent gunpowder.
Chapter 10 -
Song Dynasty is established in China.
Chapter 10 -
Empire Wu Zhao assumes throne in China.
Chapter 11 -
Byzantine culture spreads to Russia
Chapter 11 -
Tang Dynasty begins rule in China.
Chapter 12 -
Heian period begins in Japan.
Chapter 12 -
Charlemagne crowed Holy Roman Emperor by pope.
Chapter 12 -
Koryu Dynasty rules Korea.
Chapter 12 -
Song Dynasty is established in China
Chapter 12 -
Charlemagne (Frankish king) is crowned emperor.
Chapter 13 -
Treaty of Verdun is signed, Roman empire is split into three kingdoms.
Chapter 13 -
Classic period of Mayan civilization ends.
Chapter 13 -
Feudalism grows as outside invasions occur.
Chapter 13 -
Song Dynasty begins in China.
Chapter 13 -
Otto the Great becomes Holy Roman emperor.
Chapter 13 -
Ghana becomes an empire.
Chapter 15 -
Gregory I (Gregory the Great) becomes pope.
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Chinese rebels sacked and burned the Tang capital.
Chapter 12