The Middle Ages

The Ming Dynasty is Founded in Cambodia

1316 BCE

Zhu Yuanzhang officially proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian and founded the Ming Dynasty. In the same year the Ming army captured Dadu, the capital city of Yuan and rid China of most of the remaining Mongols ultimately ending Yuan.

The First Crusade Captures Jerusalem from the Muslims

1099 BCE

The climax of the First Crusade, the successful siege saw the Crusaders take Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate and laid the foundations for the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

The Normans Conquer England

1066 BCE

The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

The Khmer Empire is Founded in Cambodia

802 BCE

The Khmer empire was a powerful state in South East Asia, formed by people of the same name. At its peak the empire covered much of what today is Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam.

The Vikings begin Attacking Christian Settlements

793 BCE

The Vikings came into contact with Christianity through their raids and when they settled in lands with a Christian population they adopted Christianity quite quickly. By the mid-11th century, Christianity was well established in Denmark and most of Norway.

Muslims Conquer much of the Middle East

632 BCE

The Muslim conquests brought about the collapse of the Sassanid Empire and a great territorial loss for the Byzantine Empire. The reasons for the Muslim success are hard to reconstruct in hindsight, primarily because only fragmentary sources from the period have survived. Most historians agree that the Sassanid Persian and Byzantine Roman empires were militarily and economically exhausted from decades of fighting one another.

The Indian Gupta Empire is destroyed by White Huns

470 BCE

The White Huns were a group of largely nomadic people who were a part of the Hunnic tribes of Central Asia. They ruled over an expansive area stretching from the Central Asian lands all the way to the Western Indian Subcontinent. Although being a mostly nomadic tribe, they nonetheless adopted the lifestyles of the lands they conquered but still retained their warlike nature.

The Barbarian Invasion of the Western Roman Empire

410 BCE

For the fall of Rome it was the Huns invading from the east that caused the domino effect, they invaded the Goths who then invaded the Roman Empire. The fall of the Western Roman Empire is a great lesson in cause and effect.

The Last Western Roman Emperor is Deposed

476

While 476 CE is the traditionally accepted date for the end of the Western Roman Empire that entity did continue on under the rule of Odoacer who, officially anyway, was simply ruling in place of the deposed emperor Julius Nepos.