Song Empire and the Americas

  • Leif Erikson dies.
    Dec 3, 1020

    Leif Erikson dies.

  • Jin conquered Northern Song. Southern Song Dynasty began.
    Dec 3, 1127

    Jin conquered Northern Song. Southern Song Dynasty began.

    Jin conquered Northern Song. Southern Song Dynasty began.
  • Fireworks
    Dec 3, 1161

    Fireworks

    The Chinese used explosives for the first time in warfare, during the Song Dynasty. They also created cannons and fire fworks. They made simple flamethrowers and rockets that had multiple stages of going off.
  • Cuzco
    Dec 3, 1201

    Cuzco

    Around this time in the mountainous Andes region in South America, the Inca ruler, Manco Capac, oversees the construction of the city-state of Cuzco.
  • Genghis Khan established the Mongol regime
    Dec 3, 1206

    Genghis Khan established the Mongol regime

    This regime would eventually destroy the Song dynasty.
  • Aztecs
    Dec 3, 1247

    Aztecs

    Aztecs arrived in central mexican valley
  • Conquered
    Dec 3, 1279

    Conquered

    The Mongols conquer the Song Dynasty.
  • Song Dynasty Founded

    Song Dynasty Founded

    The Song Dynasty was founded by a military commander named, Zhoa Kuanyin.
  • Zhao Guangyi

    Zhao Guangyi

    The younger brother of Zhao Kuangyin unified the whole China during his reign by defeating the Northern Han.
  • Discovered

    Discovered

    Leif Erikson discovers America. The first European to discover America. He came from Norway.
  • Topiltzin

    Topiltzin

    Topiltzin was driven out of Tula around AD 987, following an internal conflict. He invaded and conquered Chichén Itzá, followed by the rest of the Yucatán Mayan sites, eventually creating an alternative domain to the one he had lost at Tula. Toltec-style architecture was adopted in Chichén Itzá, but there is evidence of Toltec-Maya influence in the Yucatán long before the arrival of Topiltzin.
  • Period: to Dec 2, 1279

    Song Dynasty

  • Period: to Dec 3, 1279

    The Americas