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Chapter II

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  • Period: 200 to

    Era of Division; political division in China; time of greatest Buddhist influence

  • 220

    End of Han

  • 330

    Constantinople made capital of Eastern Roman Empire

  • Period: 570 to Nov 18, 632

    Lifetime of Muhammad

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    The Postclassical Era

  • Period: Nov 18, 600 to Nov 18, 700

    Islam spreads across North Africa

  • Period: Nov 18, 624 to Nov 18, 627

    Wars between followers of Muhammad and the Quraysh of Mecca

  • Nov 18, 646

    Taika reforms in Japan

  • Period: Nov 18, 710 to

    Imperial Japanese capital at Nara

  • Period: Jan 1, 750 to Dec 31, 1258

    Abbasid Dynasty

  • Nov 18, 1050

    Invention of block printing with moveable type

  • Nov 18, 1054

    Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity

  • Period: Nov 18, 1096 to Nov 18, 1270

    Crusades

  • Nov 18, 1100

    Invention of gunpowder

  • Period: Nov 18, 1100 to Nov 18, 1453

    Byzantine decline, growing Turkish attack

  • Nov 18, 1119

    First reference to use of compass for sea navagation

  • Period: Nov 18, 1127 to Nov 18, 1279

    Southern Song

  • Period: Nov 18, 1150 to Nov 18, 1300

    Gothic style spreds

  • Period: Nov 18, 1185 to Nov 18, 1333

    Kamakura Shogunate in Japan

  • Nov 18, 1200

    Rise of the empire Mali

  • Nov 18, 1204

    Capture of Constantinople during 4th Crusade

  • Period: Nov 18, 1237 to Nov 18, 1241

    Mongols Capture Russia

  • Nov 18, 1275

    Marco Polo 20 years in China

  • Period: Nov 18, 1279 to Nov 18, 1368

    Mongol(Yuan) dynasty rules all China

  • Period: Nov 18, 1290 to Nov 18, 1317

    New famines in Europe

  • Nov 18, 1291

    First Italian expedition seeks route to Indies

  • Nov 18, 1320

    First European use of cannon in warfare

  • Nov 18, 1324

    Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa

  • Nov 18, 1325

    Aztecs established in central Mexico; Tenochtitlan founded

  • Nov 18, 1330

    Black death reaches China

  • Period: Nov 18, 1338 to Nov 18, 1453

    100 Years War

  • Nov 18, 1348

    Bubonic Plague in Europe

  • Nov 18, 1348

    Peak of Black Death in Middle East

  • Nov 18, 1350

    Incas established in Cuzco area

  • Nov 18, 1368

    Mongols expelled from China; Ming dynasty

  • Period: Nov 18, 1405 to Nov 18, 1433

    Chinese expeditions

  • Nov 18, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople/ Byzantine Empire

  • Defeat of Arab attack on Constantinople

  • Spread of new plows; use of horses in ag., transport (West Europe)

  • Germanic kings "revive" Roman Empire

  • Period of Buddhist persecution(840s)

  • Japenese capital shifts to Heian(Kyoto)

  • Last Japenese embassy to China

  • Period: to

    Charlemagne's Empire

  • Period: to

    Sui dynasty; building of the Grand Canal

  • Period: to

    Tang Dynasty

  • Period: to Nov 18, 705

    Emperess Wu; Buddhism in China peaks

  • Period: to Nov 18, 1279

    Song Dynasty; Neo-Confucianism