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Largest Dynasty the world has ever known
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power and influence of Buddhism grew.
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Ruled by Caliphs!
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The Seljuks were Turkic nomads from Turkmenistan, related to the Uighurs, who entered the Abbasid empire around 950 AD and gradually converted to Sunni Islam. By 1030 they were beginning to try to get power for themselves, and they soon conquered the Ghaznavids (wwho were also Turkic) and controlled most of Persia (modern Iran). Their capital was at Isfahan. Like the Ghaznavids, the Seljuks spoke Persian and encouraged Persian culture.
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The Great Schism of 1054 was the split between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches. In 1054, relations between the Greek speaking Eastern of the Byzantine empire and the Latin speaking Western traditions within the Christian Church reached a terminal crisis. This crisis led to the separation between the Eastern and Western churches and is referred to as the Great Schism of 1054. The Christian Church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographic lines. The split
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was the invasion and subsequent occupation of England by an army of Normans and French led by Duke William II of Normandy.
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military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken by Muslims
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intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt.
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refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India
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In 1219 a Mongol army of more than 150,000 men commanded by Genghis Khan invaded Middle Asia.
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Genghis Khan was quite possibly the greatest military leader of all time. He built an empire that stretched from the coast of China to the Black Sea and pushed north into Russia. In size, his conquests exceeded that of both Alexander the Great and Napoleon.
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Great Zimbabwe was the central power of one of the greatest civilizations in Africa between 1100-1500 AD
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The Mali Empire was the second of three West African empires to emerge in the vast savanna grasslands located between the Sahara Desert to the north and the coastal rain forest in the south. Beginning as a series of small successor trading states, Ancient Ghana, the empire grew to encompass the territory between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Chad, a distance of nearly 1,800 miles. At its height in 1300, Mali was one of the largest empires in the world.
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Kublai Khan was a Mogolian Emperor.
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was established by the Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan (1215-1294), Emperor Shizu, in 1271
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Marco Polo knew many different languages and he helped spread Christianity.
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He visited ALL Muslim lands and never crossed a road twice.
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Golden Age King of the Mali Empire
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Timur's bravery and tactical skill made him a successful mercenary soldier in Persia, and he soon collected a large following. In 1364, Timur and Hussein banded together again and defeated Ilyas Khoja, the son of Tughluk Timur.
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One of the central causes of the Hundred Years War centered on the relationship between the Kings of France and England regarding the duchy of Aquitaine located in Southwestern France.
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is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of bubonic plague. This disease is thought to have originated in China
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period of cultural restoration and expansion.
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The Inca left no written history. Most of what is known of their culture comes from early Spanish accounts and archeological finds.
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ook place in 1453 after the Ottomans successfully laid siege to the city.
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China was reunited
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in this glorious period, the economy, politics, culture and military strength reached an unparalleled advanced level.
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was a time when the Japanese islands faced no external military threats.
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The land's abundance of resources allowed Ghana's rulers to engage in years of prosperous trading.
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The Beginning of the Holy Roman Empire
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one of the world's longest sustained dynasties
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China’s population, we know, is huge, and tends to “explode”; its first explosion occurred in the Song.
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