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Prophet for Allah and founder of Islam. He declared that the Kaaba Islam's main shrine. He migrated to Medina in 622 and conquered Mecca in 630
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Second of the Islamic caliphates whose capital was at Damascus. Extended from Atlantic ocean to India
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During this period Buddhism became the state religion of Japan and experienced a cultural high point.
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Dynasty age known as the "Golden Age" of Islam. Start of Shia Muslim group was during this Dynasty.
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Rise of Ghana marked a shift to large scale goverments in western Africa. Ghana's capital was built at Kumbi Saleh.
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Relations between eastern Greek speaking people of the Byzantine empire and Latin speaking west within the Christian Church reached a terminal crisis. This crisis led to the seperation of the eastern and western churches.
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The Seljuqs overpowered the Abbasid dynasty, which ended the Caliph's political power, but respected their position as religious leaders.
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Norman invasion of England by the troops of William, Duke of Normandy. Which resulted in Norman rule of England.
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Origins of crusades come from developments in Western Europe in the middle ages. The cause of the first crusade was the Byzantine empire which was eventually defeated by the crusaders.
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One of the most famous Mongolian rulers, who conguered most of China by consolidating tribes into a unified Mongolia and then extended his empire across Asia to the Adriatic Sea.
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Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa. Famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade
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South American empire that stretched as vast as the Romans in only one century. Inca's capital was established in Cuzco.
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Diverted against the Byzantine Empire. Crusaders ruthlessly violated Constantinople's Holy structures and before the sack of the city chose 12 electors to decide the emperor who would rule 1/4 of the imperial domain.
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Sacked by Cruscaders. After, crusade kingdoms and Byzantine succesors emerged.
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Centralized Indian empire of varying extent, was created by muslim invaders.
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City in eastern Africa, whsoe stone structures were built between 1250-1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
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Mongol emperor who founded the Yuan Dynasty and led military campaigns in South China for 9 years.
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Marco made a trading journey to China, where he supposedly made friends with Kublai Khan, Mongol ruler of China. Upon his return his stories were doubted due them being so fantastical and extravagant.
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Kublai Khan announced the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in 1271.The Yuan Dynasty included Mongolia property, the territories of the former Jin and Song Dynasties, Tibet, and some adjacent territories such as southern Siberia.
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Genghis Khan united most Mongolian tribes and undertook campaigns in all direction and with them came devastation.
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Ruler of Mali. He made a pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 which established Mali's reputation for wealth.
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War between England and France caused when France tried to confiscate English Territories. Another cause can be due to economic stress between the two.
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Wiped out one-third of Europes population and continued to spread rapidly.
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Mings drove out the Mongols in China, but constantly had to defend their rule against internal and external forces. To defend themselves they built the Great Wall on the east and southeastern coast to defend themselves from the Mongols and Japanese.
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Mongol leader, with capital at Samarkand, established the Timurid empire, conquered much of the Mideast and Persia and invading India.
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Young muslim scholar from Morocco who had set out to explore the
Islamic world (Mecca, Red Sea, & East Africa). Born in 1304 and died in 1369. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands. -
In 1405, Ming Emperor Yong Le sent Zheng He to the western seas accompanied by over 20,000 sailors in more than 200 vessels.
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Japenese period named for the location of its capital city. Was characterized by the flourishing culture of the court aristocracy.
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As King of the Franks, Charlemagne expanded the Frankish Kingdom into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western & Central Europe.
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The Silla Dynasty unified the three kingdoms of the Korean Peninsula, were Silla, Paekche, and Koguryo. Silla was finally conquered in 935 by the Koryo kingdom.
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In 960, a minister of the later Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Kuan Ying, established the Song Dynasty.He was considered clever for making the Song Dynasty well, until they were defeated by the Mongol forces under Kublai Kahn.
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The Sui dynasty reunited China, reestablished its centralized administrative system and religion and their roles. Also the Sui repaired the Great Wall and built the Great Canal.
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The first emperor of the Dynasty, Li Yuan, overthrew the Sui Dynasty in 618 to form the Tang Dynasty.He made a series of reforms so China's economy, politics, military affairs, diplomacy and culture all became prosperous.
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Capital of the Khmer empire whose rulers were followers of Shivaism and built monumental temples. The most popular of these temples was that of the Angkor Wat.
