Medieval World and Beyond, Period 4, ZouJ

  • 300

    Classic Mayan Civilization began

  • 300

    Camels were first brought to the Sahara

  • 476

    The Fall of Rome

  • 500

    The Byzantine Empire Begins

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1203

    Ghana Empire

  • 552

    Buddhism comes to Japan

  • Jan 1, 604

    The Seventeen Article Constitution Began

  • Jan 1, 610

    Muhammad becomes the prophet of Islam

  • Jan 1, 651

    The first official version of the Qur'an is written

  • Jan 1, 700

    Traders Brought Islam to West Africa

  • Jan 1, 710

    Nara became the capital of Japan

  • Jan 1, 750

    Bookmaking began to spread the Qur'an

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Start of Feudalism in Europe

  • Jan 1, 1000

    The Tale of Genji was written

  • Jan 1, 1050

    Movable Type was Invented

  • Jan 1, 1054

    The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church seperate

  • Jan 1, 1065

    Song Dynasty began Civil Service Exams

  • Jan 1, 1085

    The Reconquista begins with Toledo

  • Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1099

    First Crusades

  • Period: Jan 1, 1146 to Jan 1, 1148

    Second Crusade

  • Period: Jan 1, 1189 to Jan 1, 1192

    Third Crusades

  • Jan 1, 1192

    The first Shogun came to power

  • Period: Jan 1, 1192 to

    The Era of the Samurai

  • Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 1, 1532

    The Inca Empire

    Starting from when the Incas settled in Cuzco
  • Jun 1, 1215

    The signing of the Magna Carta

  • Period: Jan 1, 1240 to

    Mali Empire

  • Period: Jan 1, 1250 to Jan 1, 1519

    The Aztec Empire

    Starting from the arrival of the Aztecs in the valley of Mexico
  • Jan 1, 1258

    The Mongols destroy Baghdad

  • Period: Jan 1, 1279 to Jan 1, 1368

    The Mongols Dynasty

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Mongol Empire is weakened

  • Jan 1, 1300

    The Renaissance began in Italy

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Humanism began in Italy

  • Jan 1, 1312

    Mansa Musa becomes the first Islamic Leader

  • Jan 1, 1325

    Aztecs started building Tenochtitlan

  • Jan 1, 1337

    Start of the Hundred Years of War

  • Jan 1, 1347

    The Bubonic Plague Begins in Europe

  • Jan 1, 1350

    Timbuku Became a Center of Arabic Learning

  • Period: Jan 1, 1368 to

    The Ming Dynasty

  • Jan 1, 1400

    The Inquisition takes place

  • Jan 1, 1405

    Zheng He makes his first voyage

  • Jan 1, 1438

    The Incas began creating roads

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg begins the printing press

  • Jan 1, 1453

    The Byzantine Empire Ends

  • Jan 1, 1453

    End of the Hundred Years of War

  • Period: Jan 1, 1460 to

    Songhai Empire

  • Jan 1, 1469

    The Medici family begins to rule Florence

  • Jan 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Granada falls to Spain

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia

  • Jan 1, 1497

    Vasco da Gama began to sail to India

  • Jan 1, 1497

    John Cabot landed in Canada

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Copernicus stated his theory of the heliocentric universe

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil

  • Jan 1, 1504

    Michelangelo completes his sculpture David

  • Jan 1, 1514

    Copernicus states that the Earth rotates around the Sun

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world

  • Jan 1, 1521

    Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztecs

  • Jan 1, 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazano landed in North America

  • Jan 1, 1525

    William Tyndale translates the Bible into English

  • Jan 1, 1533

    Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas

  • Jan 1, 1534

    King Henry III created Anglicanism

  • Jan 1, 1541

    John Calvin starts Calvinism

  • Jan 1, 1545

    The Council of Trent was formed

  • The microscope was invented

  • Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest Passage

  • Galileo decided to build a telescope

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years of War

  • The peace of Westphalia was signed

  • Newton published a book about gravity

  • Charlemagnes' Christian Empire begins

  • Japanese invented Kana

  • Prince Shotoku came to power

  • Tang Dynasty Recorded a Formula for Gunpowder

  • Buddhism Expanded in the Tang Dynasty

  • Heian-Kyo becomes the new capital of Japan

  • Period: to Jan 1, 1185

    The Heian Period

  • Period: to

    The Tang Dynasty