Middle ages - Eastern

The Sui Dynasty reunified China

581

he Sui dynasty was a short-lived imperial dynasty of China of pivotal significance. Preceded by the Northern and Southern dynasties, China was reunified after nearly three centuries of north-south division, and the rule of ethnic Han Chinese was reinstalled in the entire China proper, along with sinicization of former nomadic ethnic minorities within its territory. It was succeeded by the Tang dynasty, which largely inherited its foundation.

The Indian Gupta Empire is destroyed by White Huns

Feb 14, 606

The general prevalence of Buddhism in Northern India, including Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Suwat, during the two centuries immediately preceding, and the two next following the Christian era, is amply attested by the numerous remains of Buddhist monuments erected during that period and a multitude of inscriptions, which are almost all either Buddhist or Jain. The Jain cult, which was closely related to the Buddhist, does not appear to have gained very wide popularity.

The Tang Dynasty rules China

Feb 1, 618

Viewing the Chinese history record, you will find the Tang Dynasty was the most glistening historic period in China's history. Founded in 618 and ending in 907, the state, under the ruling of the Tang Emperors, became the most powerful and prosperous country in the world.

The First Crusade captures Jerusalem from the Muslims

May 1, 692

The Muslim conquests brought about the collapse of the Sassanid Empire and a great territorial loss for the Byzantine Empire. The reasons for the Muslim success are hard to reconstruct in hindsight, primarily because only fragmentary sources from the period have survived. Most historians agree that the Sassanid Persian and Byzantine Roman empires were militarily and economically exhausted from decades of fighting one another.

Muslims conquer much of the Middle East

Apr 1, 750

Under the last of the Umayyads, the Arabian empire extended two hundred days journey from east to west, from the confines of Tartary and India to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. We should vainly seek the indissoluble union and easy obedience that pervaded the government of Augustus and the Antonines; but the progress of Islam diffused over this ample space a general resemblance of manners and opinions.

The Khmer Empire is founded in Cambodia

Jun 11, 802

The Khmer Empire was a powerful Khmer Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia. The empire, which grew out of the former kingdoms of Funan and Chenla, at times ruled over and/or vassalised most of mainland Southeast Asia, parts of modern-day Laos, Thailand, and southern Vietnam.Its greatest legacy is Angkor, in present-day Cambodia.

The Mongols invade Afghanistan, Persia, Russia, parts of Eastern Europe and China

Sep 1, 1294

he Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history.Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, the Mongol Empire eventually stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan, extending northwards into Siberia, eastwards and southwards into the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, an

The Mongol Empire reaches its peak

Nov 16, 1294

The Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history.Originating in the steppes of Central Asia, the Mongol Empire eventually stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan.

Feudal Lords dominate Japan.

Feb 1, 1500

The Ashikaga shogunate, a dynastic and feudal military dictatorship, had been in power in Kyoto since 1336. Emperors, also in Kyoto, had been without political power. The power established by the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Takauj, eventually declined relative to the power of Japan's great landowning families (daimyo), who had their own armies. The Ashikaga shogunate failed to establish an effective central government with which to arbitrate conflicts, and by the 1490s the Ashika