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Period: 570 to Nov 1, 632
Muhammad
Muhammad was the most-reviled figure in the history of the West from the 7th century until quite recent times. Because Muhammad is one of the most influential figures in history, his life, deeds, and thoughts have been debated by followers and opponents over the centuries, which makes a biography of him difficult to write. -
Period: Nov 5, 661 to Nov 6, 750
Umayyad Dynasty
Umayyad taxation and administrative practice were widely perceived as absolutist, oppressive and unjust, deviating from the precepts of Islam. Coupled with rivalries between the Arab tribes, their rule was plagued by unrest in the provinces outside Syria -
Period: Nov 1, 710 to Nov 1, 1158
Nara Period
One characteristic of the Nara period is a gradual decline of Chinese influence which, nevertheless, remained strong. Many of the imported ideas were gradually "Japanized". In order to meet particular Japanese needs, several governmental offices were established in addition to the government system which was copied after the Chinese model, for example. -
Period: Nov 1, 742 to
Reign Of Charlemagne
Called the "Father of Europe" Charlemagne's empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church -
Period: Nov 1, 1040 to Nov 1, 1157
Saljuq Control Over Abbasid Dynasty
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Period: Nov 1, 1066 to Nov 1, 1087
Norman Invasion of England
When William the Conqueror became King of England in 1066 he introduced a new kind of feudal system into Britain. William confiscated the land in England from the Saxon lords and allocated it to members of his own family and the Norman lords who had helped him conquer the country. -
Period: Nov 1, 1096 to Nov 1, 1099
First Crusade
Without waiting for the main body of nobles, which was to assemble at Constantinople in the summer of 1096 a horde of poor men, women, and children set out, unorganized and almost unarmed, on the road to the Holy Land. This was called the Peoples Crusade, it is also referred to as the Peasants Crusade. Dividing command of the mixed multitudes with a poor knight, called Walter the Penniless, and followed by a throng of about 80,000 persons, among whom were many women and children -
Period: Nov 1, 1198 to Nov 1, 1207
Fourth Crusade
in a sudden wave of mass emotion, the assembled knights and barons fell to their knees weeping for the captive Holy Land. They swore solemn oaths to go as armed pilgrims to wrest it from the infidels. In the months that followed, the crusade took form in a series of feudal assemblies headed by Count Thibaut; Baldwin, Count of Flanders; and Louis, Count of Blois. -
Period: Nov 1, 1206 to Nov 1, 1324
Mongol Conquest of All Of China
Mongol invasions progressed throughout the 13th century, resulting in the vast Mongol Empire which covered much of Asia and Eastern Europe by 1300. -
Period: Nov 1, 1206 to Nov 1, 1227
Reign of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan saw the potential advantage in Khwarezmia as a commercial trading partner using the Silk Road, and he initially sent a 500-man caravan to establish official trade ties with the empire -
Period: Nov 1, 1206 to Nov 1, 1526
Sultanate of Delhi
The Sultanate ushered in a period of Indian cultural renaissance. The resulting "Indo-Muslim" fusion of cultures left lasting syncretic monuments in architecture, music, literature, religion and clothing. -
Period: Nov 1, 1215 to Nov 1, 1294
Reign of Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan was a Mongolian leader who made an impact on China, not only through conquest, but also by ruling successfully. Many of the rulers before him were brutally land-hungry and apathetic to the conquered people; however, Kublai challenged the stereotypes of Mongolian rulers by investing in his newly acquired people and providing the foundations of a grand empire. -
Period: Nov 1, 1220 to Nov 1, 1450
KIngdom of Zimbabwe
The kingdom of Zimbabwe controlled the ivory and gold trade from the interior to the southeastern coast of Africa. Asian and Arabic goods could be found in abundance in the kingdom -
Period: Nov 1, 1230 to
Mali Empire
The Mali empire, previously little known beyond the western Sudan, now became legendary in the Islamic world and Europe. The image of Mansa Musa bearing nuggets of gold was subsequently commemorated in maps of the African continent. -
Period: Nov 1, 1275 to Nov 1, 1291
Marco Polos Trip To China
Marco Polo, is probably the most famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing, and his influence. His journey through Asia lasted 24 years -
Period: Nov 5, 1297 to Nov 8, 1368
Yuan Dynasty
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Period: Nov 1, 1304 to Nov 1, 1369
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time. He also travelled in Ceylon, China and Byzantium and South Russia. The extent of his travels is estimated at no less than 75,000 miles, a figure which is not likely to have been surpassed before the age of steam. -
Period: Nov 1, 1312 to Nov 1, 1337
Reign of Mansa Musa
Musa was referred to and is most commonly found as Mansa Musa in Western manuscripts and literature. -
Period: Nov 1, 1337 to Nov 1, 1453
Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years War was a series of wars between England and France. The background of the Hundred Years War went as far back as to the reign of William the Conqueror. When William the Conqueror became king in 1066 after his victory at the Battle of Hastings, he united England with Normandy in France. William ruled both as his own. -
Period: Nov 1, 1347 to Nov 1, 1351
First Bubonic Plague
One of Europe's most devastating diseases, the bubonic plague, better known as the “The Black Death,” has existed for thousands of years. The first recorded case of the plague was in China in 224 B.C.E. But the most significant outbreak was in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. Over a five-year period from 1347 to 1352, 25 million people died. One-third to one-half of the European population was wiped out. -
Period: Nov 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, described by some as "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", Was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. -
Period: Nov 1, 1370 to Nov 1, 1405
Tamerlane
Tamerlane is regarded as a military genius and a tactician whose prowess made him one of the world’s great conquerors. Timur's armies were feared throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe -
Period: Nov 8, 1371 to Nov 3, 1433
Zenh He's Expeditions
Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored seven naval expeditions. The Yongle Emperor disregarding the Hongwu Emperor's expressed wishes designed them to establish a Chinese presence and impose imperial control over the Indian Ocean trade, impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin, and extend the empire's tributary system -
Period: Nov 1, 1438 to Nov 1, 1533
Inca Empire
"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the dry coastal desert called Atacama to the steamy Amazonian rain forest. At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth and remains the largest native state to have existed in the western hemisphere. -
Nov 1, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The siege of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most heavily fortified cities in the world, took place in 1453. -
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Silla Dynasty
Silla was founded by King Park Hyeokgeose in 57 BC, around present-day Gyeongju. Hyeokgeose is said to have been hatched from an egg laid from a white horse, and when he turned 13, six clans submitted to him as king and established Saro -
Period: to Nov 1, 1279
Song Dynasty
It was the first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty also saw the first known use of gunpowder, as well as first discernment of true north using a compass. -
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Sui Dynasty
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived Imperial Chinese dynasty. Preceded by the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it unified China for the first time after over a century of north-south division. It was followed by the Tang Dynasty -
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Tang Dynasty
generally regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to, or surpassing that of, the earlier Han Dynasty—a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Its territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivalled that of the Han Dynasty. -
Period: to Nov 1, 1185
Heian Period
Following the political and social problems of the preceding Nara period Emperor Kammu named his new capital Heiankyo heian meaning 'peace and tranquillity'. The Heian period did see the flowering of courtly culture, centred on the emperor and nobility, in particular the powerful Fujiwara family, but it ended with the establishment of a military dictatorship. -
Period: to Nov 1, 1432
KIngdom of Angkor
Even if trade were the driving force of Funan, agriculture played a major role as well. This agricultural exploitation may have been the basis for the political organisation and the following territorial expansion of the Funanese. Aerial photographs attest the complexity of the system imposed. A huge web of interconnecting canals stretch from the Bassac River to the sea. -
Period: to Nov 1, 1235
Kingdom Of Ghana
The land's abundance of resources allowed Ghana's rulers to engage in years of prosperous trading. Strategic governing coupled with great location led to the rapid emergence of a very wealthy empire. -
Period: to Nov 1, 1258
Abbasid Dynasty
second of the two great dynasties of the Muslim Empire of the Caliphate. It overthrew the Umayyad caliphate in ad 750 and reigned as the Abbasid caliphate until destroyed by the Mongol invasion in 1258.
