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Period: 2000 BCE to 1500
Maya
Area occupied: Southern Mexico
Achievement: Improve olmec building techniques -
Period: 319 to 467
Gupta Empire
Area occupied: Northeastern India
Achievement: developed the religion, hinduism -
Period: 330 to 1453
Byzantine Empire
Area occupied: North and middle east Africa
Achievements: Made a set legal system with Justinian code -
Period: 500 to 1200
Ghana
Located: West Africa
Achievements: kept the gold mining area a secret -
Period: 618 to
Imperial china
Area occupied: East Asia
Achievements: Invented the compass -
Period: 790 to 1258
Muslim empire
Area occupied: Most of Africa, and central and south Asia
Achievements: Fought the meccans in 624, and won -
Period: 794 to
Japan
Area occupied: Northeast Asia
Important time: In the 14th century Japan was basically feudal -
Period: 800 to
Holy Roman Empire
Area occupied: central Europe
Achievements: Roman alphabet -
Period: 1240 to
Mali
Area occupied: Western Africa
Important date: In 1312, a new leader, Mansa Musa took over -
Period: 1325 to 1519
Aztec
Area occupied: central cancer
Achievement: They built aqueducts -
Period: 1438 to 1572
Inca
Area occupied: Near the Andes Mountain in South America
Achievements: Built 25,000 miles of road -
Period: 1460 to
Songhai
Area occupied:
Important date: in the 1490s the muslims rebelled against the songhai empire