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Period: 250 to 900
Maya
Location: Mexico
Accomplishment: The ability to grow lots of crops in small areas. For example, using the corn stalks to hold up the beans. -
Period: 300 to 1100
Ghana
Location: Africa
Accomplishment: They gained wealth and power by controlling the god trade. In addition, power was handed down matrilineally. -
Period: 320 to 550
Gupta Empire
Location: India
Accomplishment: They had the ability to do highly intensive surgeries like removing a limb and even removing tumors. -
Period: 330 to 1453
Byzantine Empire
Location: Areas around the Mediterranean Sea
Accomplishment: They became wealthy very quick due to crossroad trading. This made them one of the most rich and elegant cities at the time. Also, their high level of literature made them more prestigious than other cities. -
Period: 618 to
Imperial China (Tang-Ming Dynasties)
Location: China
Accomplishment: The developed many, many, different things. For example, they developed gunpowder, rockets, paper, printing, and many different kinds of medicines. -
Period: 750 to 1258
Muslim Empire (Rashidun-Abbasid Caliphates)
Location: Middle East Asia, Central Asia, and Western Asia
Accomplishment: developed Arabic Numerals, which is the numbering system that we use nowadays. -
Period: 794 to
Japan (Heian and Edo)
Location: Japan
Accomplishment: They developed different forms of literacy like tankas. They also blended Chinese characters with theirs and made the Japanese language/characters. -
Period: 800 to
Holy Roman Empire
Location: Western and Central England
Accomplishment: They gained power fast through social power, political power, and economical power. Also, they built a good feudal system. -
Period: 1200 to 1533
Inca
Location: Western-South America
Accomplishment: They used quipus instead of a written language. The quipus are ropes with knots in them that pass a message. -
Period: 1235 to
Mali
Location: Africa
Accomplishment: The Hajj of Mansa Musa brought attention to Mali from Europe. -
Period: 1300 to 1521
Aztec
Location: Northern Mexico
Accomplishment: They built their capital in the middle of a lake on an island using a system of logs and natural resources to expand their area on the water. -
Period: 1375 to
Songhai
Location: Africa
Accomplishment: Songhai leader Sunni Ali built an army to defeat and take power from Mali in 1406.