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