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Muhammad was orphaned when his parents were killed, and was left to be raised by an uncle. In order to survive, Muhammad went to work as a caravan leader when he was only a teenager. years later he had founded Islam in 613
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The Umayyad family established a system of hereditary succession for the leader of the Muslim world. Mu'awiya assumed this position for the first 20 years of the Dynasty's rule. Under the Umayyads, the Islamic Empire spread to North Africa, Spain and central Asia.
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Charlemagne also known as Karl and Charles the Great, was a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe from 768 to 814. In 771, he became king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe in present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany. He wanted to unite all Germanic peoples into one kingdom, and convert his subjects to Christianity.
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Was the second of the two great Sunnite dynasties of the Islamic Caliphates. They took their name from an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Mali was trading empire that flourished in West Africa from the 13th to the 16th century. The Mali empire developed from the state of Kangaba, on the Upper Niger River east of the Fouta Djallon, and is said to have been founded before ad 1000.
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They were a group of Oguz warriors that entered the Middle East in the tenth century. The Seljuks rose as mercenary guards serving the Karahanids. In 1055 the real founder of the Seljuk dynasty, Tugrul Bey, wanted the Abbasid caliph to make him protector of orthodox Islam and to recogniz him as sultan
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Was the event that precipitated the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches and the Western Church. The mutual excommunications by the Pope and the Patriarch that year became a watershed in church history.
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King Edward of England died on January 5, 1066, after a reign of 23 years. Leaving no heirs, Edward's passing ignited a three-way rivalry for the crown that culminated in the Battle of Hastings and the destruction of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England.
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The First Crusade was an attempt to re-capture Jerusalem. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims in 1076. Muslim soldiers made it difficult for Christians to get to Jerusalem and had to pay harsh consequence for being a Christian.
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he empire of Great Zimbabwe, one of Africa’s greatest civilizations like Egypt and Meroe. It stood between present-day Zimbabwe, eastern Botswana and south-east Mozambique.
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Mongol leader Genghis Khan rose to establish the largest land empire in history. After uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, he conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China. His descendents expanded the empire even further, advancing to such far-off places as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea.
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Innocent III had revived the plans of the Pope Urban II and wantred to unite all Christians. The crusaders of the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople instead of Jerusalem.
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This refers to the various Muslim dynasties that ruled in India. It was founded after Muhammad of Ghor defeated Prithvi Raj and captured Delhi in 1192. In 1206, Qutb ud-Din, one of his generals, proclaimed himself sultan of Delhi and founded a line of rulers called the Slave Dynasties.
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Kublai Khan is known and revered for his civilian and administrative, not his military achievements. Grandson ofGenghis Khan, Kublai wanted to govern than to exploit and devastate the domains bequeathed to him by two generations of Mongol conquests. After taking the titles of Khaghan and emperor of China in 1260, he set about creating a Mongol rule in China.
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The Republic of Ghana is named after the medieval Ghana Empire of West Africa. The actual name of the Empire was Wagadugu. Ghana was the title of the kings who ruled the kingdom. It was controlled by Sundiata in 1240 AD, and absorbed into the larger Mali Empire.
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Marco Polo was unpoetic in imagination and vision, and constantly spoke of trade, money, risks, and profits. However, he wrote in incredible detail of the birds animals, plants, and other aspects of nature.
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In 1276 AD, when the Mongols invaded and took over China, they had already been ruling a large empire for fifty years. Their empire stretched from India and Russia to northern China and Korea. In 1276 the Mongols captured the Sung capital at Hangzhou, and by 1279 the Mongols controlled all of China.
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At this time, China was apart of the Mongol Genghis Khan,Yuan Dynasty Empire. Genghis Khan led the Mongols in their defeat of much of China; however, it was his grandson, Kublai Khan who became the emperor and founder of the Yuan Dynasty. It was the first time that foreigners had ruled all of China. The Yuan Dynasty initiated the first direct contact between China and the West.
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Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, was a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He is known for his traveling and going on excursions called the Rihla.
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He was a Turko-Mongol ruler of Barlas lineage. He conquered West, South and Central Asia and founded the Timurid dynasty. He was the grandfather of Ulugh Beg, who ruled Central Asia from 1411 to 1449, and the great-great-great-grandfather of Babur Beg, founder of the Mughal Empire, which ruled parts of South Asia for around four centuries, from 1526 until 1857.
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Mansa Musa, the uler of the Mali empire was a Muslim and he brought the Mali empire to its greatest height. During his reign Timbuktu became a center of Muslim culture and scholarship. His pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324–25 brought Mali fame throughout the world.
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This name is given to the protracted conflict between France and England from 1337 to 1453. There was a conflict because of connexion with the French possessions of the English kings when they were vassals of the kings of France.
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In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. In October of 1347 Italian ships came into dock from a trip and saw the crew dying from the plauge.
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The Ming dynasty was a period of cultural restoration and expansion. The reestablishment of an indigenous Chinese ruling house led to the imposition of court-dictated styles in the arts. Painters recruited by the Ming court were instructed to return to didactic and realistic representation,
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Zheng He's fleets visited Brunei, Thailand and Southeast Asia, India, the Horn of Africa, and Arabia, dispensing and receiving goods along the way. Zheng He presented gifts of gold, silver, porcelain, and silk; in return, China received such novelties as ostriches, zebras, camels, and ivory from the Swahili. The giraffe he returned from Malindi was considered to be a qilin and taken as proof of the favor of heaven upon the administration.
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The Ottomans brought cannons to the gate of Constantinople and stormed the capital after a siege killed the Greek Emperor. The "fall' marked the end of the Middle Ages and made many Greek scholars move to Italy.
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The Inca Empire or Inka Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. Also They lasted a short hundred years.
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The largest and most powerful Golden Age state was the Khmer kingdom of Angkor in Cambodia, established by King Jayavarman II in 802. The name Angkor derives from the Sanskrit term for “holy city,” and Jayavarman considered himself a reincarnation of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and fertility. - See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2009/05/angkor/#sthash.csWvO268.dpuf
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Was named for the location of the imperial capital, which was moved from Nara to Heian-kyō in 794. The Chinese pattern of centralized government that was adopted in the Nara period (710–784) and gradually changed as private estates grew.
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he Nara period marked the height and also the decline of the Chinese-inspired ritsuryō system of government. The emperor was the undisputed head of the country. There was strict allocation of land, and taxation based on rice and produce.
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Was one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea and the one that in 668 unified Korea under the Unified Silla dynasty. Silla was traditionally believed to have been founded by Hyŏkkŏse in 57 bc. By the 2nd century ad, a distinct confederation of local tribes was definitely in existence in the southeastern portion of the Korean peninsula
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The Song dynasty was the brilliant era in imperial Chinese history. The period in large measure shaped the intellectual and political climate of China down to the twentieth century. The first half of this era, when the capital was located at Bianliang is known as the Northern Song period.
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The short-lived Chinese dynasty that unified the country after four centuries in which North and South China had gone quite different ways. The Sui also set the bar for an to set in motion an artistic and cultural renaissance that reached its zenith in the succeeding Tang dynasty.
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This Dynasty unified under the Sui dynasty. The political and governmental institutions during this brief period began the foundation for the growth of the succeeding Tang dynasty. Marked by strong and benevolent rule, successful diplomatic relationships, economic expansion, and a cultural efflorescence of cosmopolitan style, Tang China emerged as one of the greatest empires in the medieval world.