AP World Unit 2

By VictoriaMoon1
  • Period: 700 to 900

    Revival of the Silk Roads

    The Silk Roads get reused again because people said why not, we love ourselves some tasty cultural exchange and trade.
  • Period: 960 to 1279

    Song Dynasty

  • 1100

    Mongols Are Not Violent Time

    It is during this time that the Mongols are groups of pastoral nomads living in East Asia, north of the Gobi Desert.
  • 1162

    Genghis Khan is Born

    Temujin, aka Genghis or Chinggis Khan is born, causing a lot of people for eventually die.
  • Period: 1200 to

    The Hanseatic League

    The Hanseatic League, a group of powerful nations, controls trade throughout the Silk Roads during this time.
  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    Pax Mongolia

    Period of unprecedented peace and, relative liberalism under the Mongol Empire.
  • 1204

    Mongols Attempt Writing

    The Mongol Empire attempts to standardize their alphabet to the Uyghur Alphabet, but fail.
  • 1206

    Genghis Khan Becomes Leader of Mongols

    Genghis Khan attends a kurilti and becomes ruler of the Mongols.
  • 1210

    Mongols Attack Jin Empire

    The Mongols attack the Jin Empire, their neighbors, starting their violent conquering spree across Eurasia.
  • 1219

    The Mongols Conquer More Stuff

    The Mongols conquer the Central Asian Empire, Kara Khitai and the Islamic Empire, Khwarazm.
  • 1227

    Mongol Empire BIG

    The Mongol's Empire reaches from the North China Sea to Eastern Persia.
  • 1236

    Batu Khan Conquers Russia

    Batu Khan and his army, the Golden Hoard, conquer Russia
  • 1240

    Russian Capital Destroyed

    The Russian Capital of Kiev is destroyed when Batu Khan and his army attack it.
  • 1241

    Batu Khan Kills Some More People (Knights)

    Batu Khan and his army are successful in defeating Polish, German, French, and Hungarian Knights. (wow)
  • 1258

    Mongols Conquer the Abbasid Caliphate

    Mongols take control of Dar al-Islam, destroy Baghdad and eventually cause us to do the House of Wisdom Project in AP World.
  • 1300

    Mongols Conquer China

    The Mongols conquer China creating the Yuan Dynasty to govern for them.
  • Period: 1304 to 1353

    Ibn Battuta

    Ibn Battuta's lifespan, a Muslim traveler and writer.
  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    Black Death Epidemic

    Europe suffers from an Epidemic of the Smallpox virus. (Relatable, right??)
  • Period: 1368 to

    Ming Dynasty

  • Period: 1371 to 1433

    Zheng He's Voyages

    Zheng He travels to show the might of the Ming Dynasty, but is stopped because Zhu Gaozhi is rude and doesn't like people and is probably racist.
  • Period: 1373 to 1440

    Margery Kempe

    Lifespan of Margery Kempe, a European traveler. Her autobiography shed light on the struggles of middle-class women.
  • 1459

    Constantinople Falls

    Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire after a 29-day siege.
  • 1511

    Portuguese Conquer Malacca

    The Portuguese conquer Malacca, hoping to benefit from control of the Malaccan Strait, but it didn't work.