Ancient society By halsankari 106 Start of Mongol invasion 670 Muslims control North Africa 711 Muslim invasion of Spain 793 Vikings attack Lindisfarne, England 800 Charlemagne is crowned as Roman Emperor 900 Collapse of Maya 962 Start of Holy Roman Empire 1000 Vikings settle at Vinland, Newfoundland 1066 Battle of Hastings 1073 Palestine captured by Seljuks 1095 First European Christian Crusade 1271 Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, founds Yuan Empire in Beijing 1271 Kublai Khan conquers China 1337 End of Mongol invasion 1347 Black Death reaches the Mediterranean Sea 1434 Medici family assumes control of government in Florence 1453 Turkish Ottoman Empire captures Constantinople and overthrows the Byzantine Empire 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the Caribbean, believing he has arrived in the ‘East Indies’