Medieval Timeline

  • Period: 250 to 900

    Maya

    Location: Mexico
    Accomplishments: They were able to grow lots of food in small areas because they used the corn stalks to hold up the beans and used the squash leaves to kill off weeds.
  • Period: 302 to 550

    Gupta Empire

    Location: India
    Accomplishments: They were able to do complex surgeys like removing limbs and tumors.
  • Period: 330 to 1453

    Byzantine Empire

    Locatio: the Mediterranean Area
    Accomplishments: They became very wealthy fast because they were at a crossroad for trading. Because of this they were the richest and most elegant city in the area for almost 700 years.
  • Period: 500 to 1200

    Ghana

    Location: Africa
    Accomplishments: They gained their wealth and power by controlling the god trade. Also power was inherited matrilineally (the son's for the king's sister).
  • Period: 618 to

    Imperial China

    Location: China
    Accomplishments: They developed things like gunpowder and rockets. They also developed paper and printing.
  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Muslim Empire

    Location: Middle East
    Accomplishments: Developed Arabic numerals, the numbering system we use today.
  • Period: 794 to

    Japan (heian and Edo Periods)

    Location: Japan
    Accomplishments: They developed different forms of literacy like Tankas. They also took the Chinese characters and simplified them, making the Japanese language.
  • Period: 800 to

    Holy Roman Empire

    Location: Western and Central England
    Accomplishments: They gained lots of power fast through social, political, and economical power.
  • Period: 1200 to 1533

    Inca

    Location: Western South America
    Accomplishments: They didn't have a written language but instead they use the quitpus which is ropes with knots in it to pass messages.
  • Period: 1235 to

    Mali

    Location: Africa
    Accomplishments: The Hajj of Mansa Musa brought attention from Europe to Mali.
  • Period: 1300 to 1521

    Aztec

    Location: Northern Mexico
    Accomplishments: They were able to build their capital in the middle of a lake by using logs and other resources.
  • Period: 1375 to

    Songhai

    Location: Africa
    Accomplishments: A Songhai leader named Sunni Ali, built an army to defeat and take power from Mali in 1406.