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Period: 1029 BCE to 258 BCE
China's dynasties
Zhou dynasty overthrew the Shang dynasty -
Period: 509 BCE to 47 BCE
Roman Republic
Featured an aristocratic senate, a panel of magistrates, and several popular assemblies -
Period: 402 BCE to 201 BCE
Era of the Warring States
political disunion after the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty -
Period: 327 BCE to 325 BCE
Alexander the great
Alexander the great invades India -
Period: 220 BCE to 589
Chaos
period of chaos after the Huns overturned the Han dynasty -
Period: 320 to 535
Gupta Empire
Greatest period of political stability in India -
Dec 4, 604
grand canal
604-618 CE
The Sui Dynasty constructed the Grand Canal which facilitated trade between northern and southern China. The Grand Canal stretched from Hangzhou to Chang’an to Beijing (1,240 miles long). -
Period: Dec 4, 700 to Dec 5, 900
Vikings
700-900 CE
The Vikings turned their maritime skills more toward raiding and plundering than trading or raising crops. The term Viking originally referred to a group that raided the British isles from their home at Vik in Norway. -
Oct 10, 732
battle of tours
Charles Martel lead the revolt against advancing Muslim armies and defeated them at the Battle of Tours, not far from Paris. In 711 Berbers from North Africa conquered the Iberian peninsula, penetrating the European continent until their advance was stopped about 200 miles south of Paris at the Battle of Tours in 732. -
Period: Dec 4, 960 to
Neo-Confucianism
960-1900 CE
Neo-Confucianism illustrates the deep influence of Buddhism in Chinese society. Neo-Confucianism rejected Buddhist religious teachings, but adapted the Buddhist themes and reasoning to Confucian interests and values. Neo-Confucianism shaped philosophical, political, and moral thought for half a millennium and more. -
Period: Dec 4, 960 to Dec 5, 1279
Song Dynasty
960-1279 CE
The Song Dynasty re-imposed centralized imperial rule in the late tenth century. They never built a very powerful state because Song rulers mistrusted military leaders and they place more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and the arts than on military affairs. -
Dec 4, 1054
Great Schism
1054
In the mid eleventh century, The church’s differences had become so great that church leaders formally denounced one another and established to rival communities: the Eastern Orthodox Church in Byzantium and the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe which is labeled as the Great Schism. Alongside ritual and doctrinal differences, the Byzantine patriarchs and the Roman popes disputed their respective rights and powers. -
Aug 26, 1071
Battle of Manzikert
This Battle was fought between Byzantine armies and the Seljuq Turks.It is one of the turning points of the Byzantine empire and helps lead to its decline. -
Period: Dec 4, 1450 to May 29, 1500
Bartelomeo Dias
He was the son of Prince Henry the Navigator and he rounded the tip of Africa. -
Period: Nov 9, 1451 to May 20, 1506
Christopher Columbus
He convinced Spain royals to finance a voyage to reach east by going west. Columbus thought the Earth was smaller and believed he could reach China or India by going west , but really the location he was headed for were the Americas. -
Period: Apr 6, 1453 to May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The Byzantine capital of Constantinople was conquered by Sultan Mehmed II. After subjecting it to a sack, he made the city his own capital under the Turkish name of Istanbul. -
Period: Dec 4, 1480 to Dec 5, 1520
Montezuma
1480-1520
Montezuma was an Aztec ruler. He first mistook Cortes, with his pale skin and
horse legs for a god. He sent a gift to Cortes in order appease him, but this
just fueled the appetite of the new conquerors. The Spanish seized Montezuma and
Tenochtitlan. -
Dec 4, 1497
Vasco de Gama
He rounded the Cape of Good Hope and explored the east African kingdoms, and then went to India where he established trade relations.
