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The rise of Ghana in West Africa
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Japan adobts the Chinese Alphabet
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Buddhism first came to China
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extensive slave trade from Sub-Saharan to Mediterranean from 600AD to 1500AD
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Prince Shotoku delcares Buddhism and Confucianism the state religions of Japan
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Between 661AD and 750AD, the Umayyad Dynasty gains control over the Arab-Islamic empire and greatly expands its territories. The empire spread westward throughout North Africa, north into Spain and eastward to the borders of India and China.
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In 717AD, Muslims tried to fire a attck towards the Constantinople, but were unsuccessful.
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-Rise of the miliatry class (Samurai)
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The battle of Hastings-Will the Conqueror defeats Harold
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Oxford University was founded in England in 1149
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Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral
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he Famine kills hundreds od thousands of people
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Between the 11th and 13th Centuries, tales of the riches of the Middle Eastand a desire to reclaim the Holy Land for Christianity inspire European kingdoms to proclaim a series of crusades against the Muslim empires of the Middle East. Though the crusades were to have some success in holding territory in the Holy Land, their longest lasting effects were in Europe, where people were exposed to many new ideass.
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In the 13th cent. Mongol invasions in the Middle East devastated Iraq and Iran and ended what remained of the Arab-Islamic Empire.
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The Spanish were victorious against the Muslims at Las Navas de Tolosa.
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Fall of the Last Christian outposts in the Holy Land
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William Wallace emerged as the leader of the Scottish resistance to England
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They rebelled aginst the Yuan Dynasty.
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Ibn Battuta, famous North African traveler, begins 29-year, 75,000 mile world tour
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The Hundred Year War begins. England and France struggle for the dominance of Western Europe
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The Black Death ravages Europe for the first time of many times. An estimated one third of the population is thought to have been perished within the first year.
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The Bible was translated into English in 1382AD by John Wycliffe
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The War ends. Calais is the only English possession on Continental Europe.
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Peace among Northern Italian states
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The Wars of the Roses begins in England
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Sir Thomas Moore and Bishop Fisher of Rochester were executed for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the English Church
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A Civil War broke out between King and Parliament
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The Korean kingdom of Paekche dispatches a delegation to introduce Buddhism to the Japanese emperor
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The Emperor forbids contacts with China
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Yang Jian conquered the south and unified China. He also created the Sui Dynasty.
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The Song Dynasty arose. A former official overthrew the old government.
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It helped China's growing wealth and it was a lot lighter and easier to use then coins.
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King Alfred the Great starts the Wessex line of Kings of England
