AP World 10-12 By gmgiacoma 220 13: End of the Han dynasty Period: 220 to 589 13: Era of the Six Dynastics; political discord in China; time of great Buddhist influence Period: 500 to 900 11: Recovery period after Rome’s fall; Christian missionaries work in Northern Europe Period: 589 to 618 13: Sui dynasty; building of the Grand Canal Period: 711 to 713 8: First Muslim raids into India Period: 711 to 713 8: First Muslim raids into India 732 11: Franks defeat Muslims in France 750 8: Establishment of the Abbasid caliphate (Baghdad) 809 8: First war of succession between Abbasid princes Period: 840 to 850 13: Period of Buddhist persecution Period: 900 to 1000 11: Spread of new plows; use of horses in agricultural and transport 907 13: End of Tang Dynasty Period: 960 to 1279 13: Song Dynasty; Neo Confucian revival 998 8: Beginnings of Ghazni raids into western India 1050 13: Invention of block printing with movable type 1050 13: Invention of block printing with movable type 1055 8: Seljuk Turks overthrow Buyids, control caliphate Period: 1096 to 1270 11. Crusades Period: 1096 to 1099 8: First Christian Crusade in Palestine 1119 13: First reference to the use of compass for sea navigation Period: 1200 to 1274 11: Thomas Aquinas and flowering of scholasticism 1215 11: Magna Carta 1258 8: Fall of Baghdad to Mongols; end of Abbasid caliphate 1265 11: First English parliament Period: 1279 to 1368 13: Mongol (Yuan ) dynasty rules all China Period: 1290 to 1300 8: Beginning of the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia 1291 8: Fall of Acre; last crusader stronghold in Middle East Period: 1338 to 1453 11: Hundred Years’ War Period: 1348 to 1380 11. Black Death (bubonic plague) 1469 11: Formation of single Spanish monarchy