Asian empires

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  • 425

    Yamato dynasty began in japan

    Yamoto was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan.
  • Jan 11, 1185

    Kamakura shogunate gains control of Japan.

    The Kamakura period ended in 1333 with the destruction of the shogunate and the short reestablishment of imperial rule under Emperor Go-Daigo by Ashikaga Takauji, Nitta Yoshisada, and Kusunoki Masashige.
  • Jan 11, 1192

    Tokugawa shogunate gains control of Japan.

    The period 1192 to 1869 began with the establishment of the shogunate system, a form of government that would last until 1868, and in which effective control over Japan lay with the hands of the hereditary shoguns. The major shogunates included the Kamakura (1192–1333), the Ashikaga (1338–1573), and the Tokugawa (1603–1868). In 1869, following internal conflict over the reopening of Japan to the outside world, the emperor Mutsuhito Meiji (reigned 1867–1912) recovered the full powers of the emper
  • Jan 12, 1227

    Death of Genghis Khan.

    was the founder, Khan (ruler) and Khagan (emperor) of the Mongol Empire, the largest contiguous empire in history.Before Genghis Khan died, he assigned Ögedei Khan as his successor and split his empire into khanates among his sons and grandsons. He died in 1227 after defeating the Tanguts. He was buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Mongolia at an unknown location.
  • Jan 12, 1269

    Italian merchant Marco Polo leaves Venice w/father and travels to China.

    a merchant from the Venetian Republic who wrote Il Milione, which introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan.
  • Jan 11, 1274

    Japanese defeat Mongols in Japan with the help of a typhoon.

    were major military invasions and conquests undertaken by Kublai Khan to take the Japanese islands after the capitulation of Goryeo (Korea). Despite their ultimate failure, the invasion attempts are of macrohistorical importance, because they set a limit on Mongol expansion, and rank as nation-defining events in Japanese history
  • Jan 11, 1371

    Chinese admiral Zheng He begins his first overseas voyage.

    Through his seven voyages of discovery to the West, Zheng He helped transform China into the superpower of his time.
  • Jan 11, 1392

    chosen dynasty began in korea

    adopted Confucianism as their governing ideology and withdrew official support for Buddhism. During their reign, Confucianism's conservative ethics and values dominated Korea's social structure and attitudes

  • Ming Dynasty

    Ming dynasty ruled southern china until 1662. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history.

  • song dynasty

    The song dynasty was in ruling in china. It had five sucessful dynasty's and ten kingdoms period.

  • Tang dynasty began in china

    At the end of Sui Dynasty (581 - 618), the whole country fell into chaos due to the tyranny of Emperor Yang

  • Heian dynasty began in japan

    The Heian period (794-1192) was one of those amazing periods in Japanese history, equaled only by the later Tokugawa period in pre-modern Japan, in which an unprecedented peace and security passed over the land under the powerful rule of the Heian dynasty.