Thanksgiving timeline

By _Amir Thorpe
  • 1478 BCE

    The Inquisition

    Was a government system of the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat public heresy.
  • 1438 BCE

    Inca Empire

    The largest empire in pre-Columbia America.
    The emperor ruled with the aid of an aristocratic bureaucracy.
  • 1428 BCE

    Aztec Empire

    They were mostly hunters and gathers in northern Mexican.
    They founded the Tenochtitlan that were very successful.
  • 1405 BCE

    Voyages of Zhen He

    Was a Chinese mariner and explorer and diplomat. He traveled to places like Southeast Asia, South Asia and Western Asia.
  • 1368 BCE

    Ming Dynasty

    They had immense cultural and political influence on East Asia.
    It followed the collapse of the Mongols.
  • 1347 BCE

    Black Death

    Took more lives than any other epidemic or war in that time.
  • 1337 BCE

    100 Years War

    It started by Edward iii of England non fulfillment of his pledges to restore part of guienne.
  • 1325 BCE

    Tenochtitlan built

    It was built on a island in Lake Texcoco.
    Formed many alliances.
  • 1279 BCE

    Yuan Dynasty

    It was China's first foreign led dynasty.
    The new leader was the old leader of the Mongol Empire
  • 1215 BCE

    Magna Carta

    This was the foundation of individual rights.
  • 1215 BCE

    Parliament Established

    Legislatures in some countries that were once British colonies
  • 1206 BCE

    Mongol Empire

    It was the largest contiguous land empire in world history
    Genghis Khan had an idea of a Heavenly mission.
  • 1206 BCE

    Pax Mongolia

    This was a time when peace, stability, economic growth and cultural fusion were happening in the Mongols territories.
  • 1095 BCE

    Crusades

    It was a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims.
  • 1066 BCE

    William the Conqueror takes England

    He decisively defeated and killing Harold at the battle of Hasting. William was named king on Christmas day.
  • 1054 BCE

    Great Schism between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox

    This was the breakup of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
  • 1000 BCE

    High Middle Ages

    This period had major technological advances including gunpowder and vertical windmills
  • 960 BCE

    Song Dynasty

    It had great artistic achievements.
    It emphasized representations of the Buddha
  • 800 BCE

    Holy Roman Empire

    Was ruled by kings for over 10 centuries
    It had french revolutionary wars and it was ruled by Emperor Charles IV
  • 800 BCE

    Viking invasions in Europe

    Vikings were not Christians so that is why they favored attacking monasteries
  • 762 BCE

    Abbasid’s take Baghdad

    Taking baghdad was an eastward orientation of the dynasty.
  • 749 BCE

    Abbasid Caliphate

    They overthrew the preceding Umayyad Dynasty.
    The Abbasids took the caliphate for themselves and left the Shiites with nothing
  • 732 BCE

    Battle of Tours

    The leader Charles Martel was a Christian and he and his army defeated a large army of Spanish moors, stopping the Muslim advance into Western Europe.
  • 711 BCE

    Muslims control Spain

    They did this because of the call for assistance from the Visigothic.
  • 661 BCE

    Umayyad Caliphate

    The empire grew rapidly through conquest from Southwest Asia, North Africa and Spain.
    The dynasty centralized authority within the Islamic civilization.
  • 632 BCE

    Death of Muhammad

    He was buried at the Mosque of the prophet
  • 632 BCE

    Sunni/Shia Split

    It was split after the death of the prophet Muhammad and because they had a dispute who should be his successor.
  • 622 BCE

    The Hijra

    It was Muhammad’s migration from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution
  • 618 BCE

    Tang Dynasty

    It succeeded the short lived Sui dynasty
    It had a successful form of government and administration.
  • 610 BCE

    Muhammad’s 1st revelation

    Muhammad was visited by the archangel Jibril
  • 605 BCE

    Grand Canal built

    It was built to enable successive Chinese regimes to transport grain.
  • 500 BCE

    Middle Ages

    It was a migration period that lasted from the fall of the Rome to about year 1000.
  • 476 BCE

    Dark Ages

    This is the migration of the early middle ages.
  • 400 BCE

    Mayan city-states

    40 cities and each city held between 5,000 and 50,000 people.
  • Period: 400 BCE to Jun 1, 1450

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  • 330 BCE

    Byzantine Empire

    Survived for a thousand years after the western half was made into a feudal kingdom.
    Fall of constantinople.