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Zhou dynasty overthrew the Shang dynasty
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Featured an aristocratic senate, a panel of magistrates, and several popular assemblies
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political disunion after the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty
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Alexander the great invades India
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period of chaos after the Huns overturned the Han dynasty
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Greatest period of political stability in India
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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). -
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. -
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.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
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He was the son of Prince Henry the Navigator and he rounded the tip of Africa.
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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.
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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.
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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
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He rounded the Cape of Good Hope and explored the east African kingdoms, and then went to India where he established trade relations.
