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he was a religious, political, and military leader from Meccawho unified Arabia into a single religios polity under Islam. He is almost universally considered by Muslims as the laast prophet sent by God for mankind.
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It is Northwest of Africa and was powerful kingdom developed in700 AD. It was wealthy because of its salt and gold trade at the time.
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The Abbasid was the third of the four great muslim caliphates if the Arab Empire. It was built by Muhammad's uncle, and flourished for two centuries.
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Started as a widespread pilgrimage and ended as a military expedition by the Roman Catholic to regain the Holy Lands. Resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099.
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Fourth Crusade was convinced French knights sacked and destroyed Zara. Venice city was instrumental in planning the attacks on Zara.
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Involved the defeat of the Jin Dynasty, western Xia, and Dali kingdom and the Southern Song which finally fell in 1279. The Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan started the conquest with small scale raids into western Xia in 1205 and 1207.
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The Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe controlled the ivory and gold trade from their interior to the southeastern coast of Africa. The kingdom taxed other rulers throughout the reigion, and was composed of over 150 tributaries headquartered in their own zimbawes.
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He headed to China on the Silk Road in the Yuan Dynasty. His travels described the chinese plotics economy and culture in detail which greatly produced the desire of westerners to go to china and had an effect on the european navigation.
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Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He is known for his traveling and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for almost thirty years.
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The Hundred Years War was a conflict between England and France. This was started when King Phillip VI of France attempted to confiscate the English territiories in the Southwest France.
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First Bubonic Plague Pandemic is a disease, ciculating maily in fleas, or small rodents. In the 14th Century it waas estimated to have killed about 25 million people or 30-60% of the European Population.
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The ruling dynasty for 276 years following the collapse of thr Mongol led Yuan Dynasty. It was described by some as "one of the freatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in china ruled by ethnic Han Chinese.
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Mali Empire trading empire that flourished in West Africa. It developed from the state of Kangaba on the upper Niger River east of the Fouta Djallon and is said to have been founded before 1000 A.
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The Fall of Constaninople fell to the Ottoman Turks. This battle ended the Byzantine Empire.
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The Heian period is known as the Golden Age of Jaanese history. This was named for the location of the imperial capital that was moved from Nara.
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The largest and most powerful Golden Age state when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", and lasted until the late 14th century.