Medieval world and beyond period 6 lightj

  • 220

    Buddhism religion expanded in the Tang Dynasty

  • 300

    Classic Maya civilization began

  • 300

    Camels were first brought to the Sahara

  • 476

    The Fall of Rome

  • 500

    The Byzantine Empire begins

  • 552

    Buddhism is ntroduced to Japan

  • Jan 1, 604

    The Seventeen Article Constitution began

  • Jan 1, 610

    Muhammad became a prophet of Islam

  • Jan 1, 651

    The First Official Edition of the Qur'an was 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

    Feudalism: Establishing Order

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Feudalism Begins

  • Jan 1, 1000

    The Tale of Genji, the first novel, was written

  • Jan 1, 1050

    Movable Type was invented in China

  • Jan 1, 1054

    the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox split

  • Jan 1, 1065

    Song Dynasty begins civil service exams

  • Jan 1, 1085

    The Reconquista Began with Toledo

  • Jan 1, 1096

    The First Crusade Began

  • Jan 1, 1099

    The first Crusade ends

  • Jan 1, 1146

    The Second Crusade Began

  • Jan 1, 1148

    The Second Crusade ends

  • Jan 1, 1185

    The Heian period ended

  • Jan 1, 1189

    The Third Crusade Began

  • Jan 1, 1192

    first shogun came to power

  • Jan 1, 1192

    The era of the samurai begns

  • Jan 1, 1200

    Aztecs arrived in the valley of Mexico

  • Jan 1, 1203

    The Ghana Empire Ended

  • Jan 1, 1206

    The Mongols Dynasty Began

  • Jan 1, 1215

    King Henry VII created Anglicanism

  • Jun 1, 1215

    The signing of the MAgna Carta June

  • Jan 1, 1240

    The Mali Empire Began

  • Jan 1, 1258

    The Mongols destroyed Baghdad

  • Jan 1, 1260

    The Mongol Empire was weakened

  • Jan 1, 1279

    The Mongols Dynasty begins

  • Jan 1, 1290

    The Mali Empire Began

  • Jan 1, 1300

    The Tang Dynasty recorded a formula for gunpowder

  • Jan 1, 1300

    The Mongol empire is weakened

  • Jan 1, 1304

    Humanism began in Italy

  • Jan 1, 1312

    Mansa Musa was the first Islamic leader

  • Jan 1, 1325

    The Aztecs built Tenochtitlan

  • Jan 1, 1337

    The Hundred Years War begins

  • Jan 1, 1347

    The Bubonic Plague Begins in Europe

  • Jan 1, 1350

    Timbuktu became a center of Arabic Learning

  • Jan 1, 1368

    The Ming Dynasty Began

  • Jan 1, 1368

    The Mongols Dynasty Ended

  • Jan 1, 1400

    The Inquisition took place

  • Jan 1, 1400

    The Renaissance began in Italy

  • Jan 1, 1405

    Zheng He made his first voyage

  • Jan 1, 1438

    The Incas began to create roads

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press

  • Jan 1, 1453

    The Hundred Years War Ends

  • Jan 1, 1453

    The Byzantine Empire Ends

  • Nov 22, 1481

    Vasco de Gama began to sail to India

  • Jan 1, 1492

    The Spanish conquer Granada

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Isabella sent Christopher Columbus to find a sea route to Asia

  • Jan 1, 1497

    Bartolomeu Dias began to sail around the tip of Africa

  • May 2, 1497

    John Cabot landed in Canada

  • Jan 1, 1500

    Post-Classic Mayan Civilization ended

  • Apr 22, 1500

    Pedro Cabral began to sail to Brazil

  • Jan 1, 1504

    Michelangelo completed his statue of David

  • Jan 1, 1509

    John Calvin created Calvinism

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses

  • Aug 10, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan began to sail around the world

  • Jan 1, 1521

    Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztecs

  • Jan 1, 1521

    The Medici family began to rule Florence

  • Jan 1, 1525

    William Tyndale translated the Bible into English

  • Jan 1, 1528

    Giovanni da Verrazzano landed in North America

  • Jan 1, 1531

    Francisco Pizarro destroyed the Incas

  • Jan 1, 1532

    The Inca empire ended

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Coernicus stated his theoryof the heliocentric universe

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus stated that the earth revolves around the sun

  • Jan 1, 1545

    The Council of Trent was formed

  • The Songhai Empire Began

  • Henry Hudson began to try to find the Northwest passage

  • The microscope was invented

  • The Mali empire Ended

  • The Thirty Years' War started

  • Galileo decided to build a telescope

  • Ming Dynasty Ended

  • The Thirty Years' War Ended

  • Peace of Westphalia was signed

  • Newton published a book about gravity

  • The era of the samurai ended

  • Charlemagne's Christian Empire begins

  • The Ghana Empire Began

  • Tang Dynasty Began

  • Tang Dynasty Ended

  • Tang Dynasty records a formula for gunpowder

  • Heian-kyo became the capital of Japan

  • Prince Shotoku came to power

  • Heian period begins

  • Charlemagne's Christian Empire ends

  • Buddhism religion expands in the Tang Dynasty

  • The Japenese invented kana