AP World History 600 CE - 1450 CE

By JohnOvering
  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian is Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor

    Rules for 63 years
  • Period: 570 to Jan 10, 632

    Time of Muhammad

    570 Birth of Muhammad
    610 Muhammad’s first revelations
    613 Muhammad begins to preach the new faith
    622 Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina (hijira)
    624-627 Wars between the followers of Muhammad and the Quraysh of Mecca
    628 Muslim-Meccan Truce
    630 Muhammad enters Mecca in triumph
    632 Death of Muhammad
  • Period: Jan 10, 634 to Jan 10, 750

    Arab Invasions in Middle East; spread of Islam in North Africa

    Quickly united most of Northern Africa and Middle East as one
  • Period: Jan 10, 661 to Jan 10, 750

    Ummayad Caliphate

    Leads Islamic world
  • Jan 10, 711

    First Islamic invasions into India

    Successful
  • Jan 10, 750

    Abbasid caliphate founded

  • Jan 10, 777

    Independent Islamic kingdoms form in North Africa

  • Jan 10, 1000

    Height of Ghana Empire in West Africa

  • Jan 10, 1054

    Schizm between Eastern and Western Christianity

  • Jan 10, 1055

    Seljuk Turks control Abbasid caliphate

  • Jan 10, 1066

    Norman conquest of England & Rise of feudal monarchy in West Europe

  • Period: Jan 10, 1096 to Jan 10, 1099

    First Christian Crusade (to Palestine)

  • Jan 10, 1100

    Invention of Gun Powder in China

  • Jan 10, 1150

    Toltec Empire falls apart

  • Period: Jan 10, 1185 to Jan 10, 1333

    Kamakura Shogunate in Japan

  • Jan 10, 1200

    Rise of Mali Empire in West Africa

  • Jan 10, 1206

    Delhi Sultanate in India

  • Period: Jan 10, 1231 to Jan 10, 1392

    Mongols rule over Korea

  • Jan 10, 1236

    Mongols capture Baghdad; thus, end of Abbasid caliphate

  • Jan 10, 1260

    Death of Sundiata, founder of Mali

  • Jan 10, 1265

    First English Parliament

  • Period: Jan 10, 1279 to Jan 10, 1368

    Mongol Empire in China

    Largest empire to have ever existed in history. Very large, trade-based, and hard to maintain control.
  • Period: Jan 10, 1290 to Jan 10, 1300

    Islam spreads into southeast Asia

  • Jan 10, 1320

    FIrst European use of cannons in war

  • Period: Jan 10, 1320 to Jan 10, 1340

    Bubonic Plague sweeps the nations

    Kills from half up to two thirds of the world population at the time
  • Jan 10, 1325

    Rise of Aztec Empire in Mesoamerica

  • Period: Jan 10, 1338 to Jan 10, 1453

    Hundred Years' War in Europe

    Lasts over 100 years
  • Jan 10, 1350

    Rise of Incas in the Andes

  • Jan 10, 1392

    Begin of Yi dynasty in Korea

    lasts until 1910
  • Jan 10, 1400

    End of Polynesian Expeditions

  • Period: Jan 10, 1405 to Jan 10, 1433

    Chinese Trading Expeditions

  • Jan 10, 1439

    Portugal captures Azores Islands

  • Jan 10, 1452

    Turks capture Constantinople; Byzantine Empire ends

  • Period: Jan 10, 1471 to Jan 10, 1493

    Peak of Inca Empire in Mesoamerica

    Ended early by the expeditions of the Europeans to Mesoamerica

  • Tula established by Toltecs in Mesoamerica

  • Korea becomes independent from China

  • Byzantines fend off Arab attack on Constantinople

  • Russian kingdom around Kiev forms

  • Cyril and Methodius missionaries enter Eastern Europe

  • Last Japanese embassy to China

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    Sui Dynasty rules over China

    29 year rule
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    Tang Dynasty takes over the Sui in China

    Very prosperous dynasty. Many new trade routes and inventions
  • Period: to

    Charlemagne's Empire in West Europe

    Only lasts 14 years, powerful.
  • Period: to Jan 10, 1127

    Song Dynasty emerges in China

    167 year long rule - time of prosperity. Paper money, gun powder, silk, etc. invented
  • Period: to Jan 10, 1015

    Christian Conversion of Russia by Vladimir I

    Vlad wanted control over his people. Thus, Russia becomes an Eastern Orthodox nation.