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300
Camel was first introduced to West Africa
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476
Fall of Rome
In 476 C.E. the last emperor in the west was overthrown by Germanic tribes. -
500
The Byzantine Empire Beigns
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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1203
Ghana's rise and fall
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552
Buddhism was introduced to Japan
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Jan 1, 604
The Seventeen Article Constitution began
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Jan 1, 610
Muhammad became a prophet of Islam
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Jan 1, 651
The first official edition of the Quar'an was written
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Jan 1, 700
Traders introduced Islam to West Africa
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Jan 1, 710
Nara became the capital of Japan
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Jan 1, 750
Bookmaking Begins to spread the Qur'an
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Jan 1, 1000
Feudalism Begins
William the Conquerer uses feudalism to rule -
Jan 1, 1000
The Tale of Genji was written
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Jan 1, 1050
Movable Type was invented in China
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Jan 1, 1054
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church split
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Jan 1, 1065
Song Dynasty began civil service exams
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Jan 1, 1085
The Reconquista begins with Toledo
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Jan 1, 1096
The First Crusade Begins
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Jan 1, 1146
The Second Crusade
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Jan 1, 1189
The Third Crusades Begin
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Jan 1, 1192
The first shogun came to power
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Period: Jan 1, 1192 to
The era of the samurai
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Jan 1, 1200
The Incas first settled in Cuzco
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Jun 1, 1215
The signing of the Magne Carta
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Period: Jan 1, 1240 to
Mali's rise and fall
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Jan 1, 1250
Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1258
The Mongols destroyed Baghdad
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Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Jan 1, 1368
The Mongols Dynasty began and ended
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Jan 1, 1300
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1300
The Mongol Empire was Weakened
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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa became the leadere of Mali
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Jan 1, 1325
Aztecs started building Tenochtitlan
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years' War Begins
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Jan 1, 1347
The Bubonic Plague Beings
The Black Death began to spread to Europe from central Asia -
Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu became a center of learning
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Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
The Ming Dynasty's Period of Rule
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Jan 1, 1400
The Inquisition Begins
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Jan 1, 1405
Zheng He made his first voyage
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Jan 1, 1438
The Incas began to create roads
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Jan 1, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press
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Jan 1, 1450
Humanism began in Italy
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Jan 1, 1453
The Hundred Years' War Ends
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Jan 1, 1453
The Byzantine Empire Begins
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Period: Jan 1, 1460 to
Songhai's Rise and Fall
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Jan 1, 1469
The Medici family began to rule Florence
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa
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Jan 1, 1492
Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia
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Jan 1, 1492
The Spanish Conquered Granada
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Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama began to sail to India
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Jan 1, 1497
John Cabot landed in Canada
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Jan 1, 1500
Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended
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Jan 1, 1500
Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil
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Jan 1, 1500
the microscope was invented
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Jan 1, 1504
Michelangelo completed his statue of David
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Jan 1, 1514
Copernicus stated that the earth revolves around the sun
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world
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Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1521
The Aztec Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano landed in North America
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Jan 1, 1525
William Tyndale translated the Bible into English
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Jan 1, 1532
The Inca Empire ended
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Jan 1, 1532
Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas
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Jan 1, 1539
King Henry VIII created Anglicanism
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Jan 1, 1541
John Calvin created Calvinism
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe
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Jan 1, 1545
The Council of Trent was formed
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Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage
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Galileo decided to build a telescope
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The Thirty Years’ War began
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Peace of Westphalia was signed
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The Thirty Years’ War ended
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Newton published a book about gravity
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Prince Shotoku came to power
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Charlemagne's Christian Empire
In 800 C.E. Leo the pope crowned him Holy Roman Empire -
The Tang Dynasty Recorded a Recipe for Gunpowder
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The Heian-Kyo became capital
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The Japanese invented the kana
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Classic Mayan Civilization began
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Buddhism expanded under the Tang dynasty
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Period: to
The Tang Dynasty's Period of Rule
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Period: to Jan 1, 1185
The Heian Period