unit 3 600-1450

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  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Post Classical Era

  • Jan 1, 610

    start of Islam

    The Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from Allah.The first revelation to the prophet Muhammad at the age of 40. Muhammad and his followers spread the teachings of Islam throughout the Arabian peninsula. Soon after the death of the prophet Muhammad, there were military expeditions, called "futuhat," or literally "openings," into what is now Egypt and other parts of North Africa. Basically this was the very beginning of the era of the Islam religion that took a while to spread.
  • Jan 1, 730

    Printing invented in China

    The history of printing in East Asia starts with the use of woodblock printing on cloth during the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) and later paper (in Imperial Court as early as the 1st century, or around 80 AD, and continued with the invention of wooden movable type by East Asian artisans in Song China by the 11th century.
  • Jan 1, 732

    Battle of Tours

    The Battle of Tours it was often called the Battle of Poitiers.It was fought on October 10, 732 between forces under the Frankish leader Charles Martel and a massive invading Islamic army led by Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd al Rahman, near the city of Tours, France.
  • Jan 1, 900

    Decline of Classical Maya

    One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Maya civilization in that region had collapsed. The reason for this mysterious decline is unknown, though scholars have developed several competing theories. The classic Maya collapse refers to the decline of Maya civilization and abandonment of Maya cities in the southern Maya lowlands of Mesoamerica between the 8th and 9th centuries.
  • Jan 1, 1054

    Great Schism in Christian Church

    Schism of 1054, also called East–West Schism, event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius and the Western Church led by Pope Leo IX. It all was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches, which has lasted since the 11th century.
  • Jan 1, 1066

    Norman conquest of England

    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 as William the Conqueror. William's claim to the English throne derived from his familial relationship with the childless Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor, who may have encouraged William's hopes for the throne. Edward died in January 1066 and was succeeded by his brother-in-law Harold Godwinson.
  • Jan 1, 1071

    Battle of Manzikert

    The Battle of Manzikert was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuq Turks on August 26, 1071 near Manzikert.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1095 to Dec 31, 1291

    crusades

  • Nov 27, 1095

    1st crusade

    On November 27, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II called for a crusade to help the Byzantines and to free the city of Jerusalem. The official start date was set as August 15, 1096. Those armies that left before that time are considered part of the People's Crusade. The First Crusade was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to capture the Holy Land, called by Pope Urban II.
  • Jan 1, 1206

    Chinggis khan begins Mongol conquest

    Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227) rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history. After uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, he conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China.
  • Jan 1, 1258

    Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate

    The Siege of Baghdad, which lasted from January 29 until February 10, 1258, entailed the investment, capture, and sack of Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by Ilkhanate Mongol forces and allied troops. The Mongols were under the command of Hulagu Khan, brother of the khagan Möngke Khan, who had intended to further extend his rule into Mesopotamia but not to directly overthrow the Caliphate.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1271 to Dec 1, 1295

    Marcos Polo's Travels

    In 1267 the Polos returned to Europe as Kublai’s ambassadors of goodwill and bearing gifts from Asia. When they returned to China several years later, they took a young Marco Polo (1254–1324), the son of Niccolo, with them, facilitating a relationship that would change the global economy.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1279 to Dec 1, 1368

    Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

    During the Yuan Dynasty, which lasted from 1279 to 1368 AD, China was part of the Mongol Empire. Genghis Khan led the Mongols in their defeat of much of China; however, it was his grandson, Kublai Khan who became the emperor and founder of the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first time that foreigners had ruled all of China.
  • Dec 1, 1324

    Mansa Musa's pilgrimage/hajj

    Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside Africa. His elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324 introduced him to rulers in the Middle East and in Europe. His leadership of Mali, a state which stretched across two thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Chad and which included all or parts of the modern nations of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1325 to Dec 1, 1349

    travels of Ibn Battuta

    Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1349. Ibn Battuta started on his travels when he was 20 years old in 1325. His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj, or a Pilgrimage to Mecca, as most Muslims want to do.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1347 to Dec 1, 1348

    Bubonic plague in Europe

    The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to greet the ships were met with a bad disease. Most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill. They were overcome with fever, unable to keep food down and delirious from pain. It came from animals too.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1368 to

    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China—then known as the Empire of the Great Ming—for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty and was the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng who established the Shun dynasty, soon replaced by the Manchu led Qing dynasty, regimes loyal to the Ming throne collectively called the Southern Ming survived until 1683