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The last pre-Islmaic Persian Empire. Recongized as one of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe during that period.
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Located in West Africa. Each kingdom got bigger.
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Imperial capital of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. Throughout most of the Middle Ages Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.
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Predominantly Greek speaking Eastern Roman Emprire. AKA Roman Empire.
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The Qur'an began with revelations on Muhammad's divine revelations in 610 CE.
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The original split between Sunnis and Shia occurred soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Second of the four major Arab caliphates established after the death of Muammad.
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The conquered territory became part of the expanding Umayyad Emprie.
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3rd of the Islamic caliphates. The Abbasids' rule was briefly ended for three years in 1258, resuming in Mamluk Egypt in 1261, from where they continued to claim authority in religious matters until 1519.
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They were a Turkish tribe from Central Asia. They poured into Persia and established their first powerful state,
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Series of religulously sanctioned military campaigns, waged by most of Roman Catholic Europe.
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He was a Kurdish Muslim who became the Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt and Syria. During the height of his power he ruled over Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Hejaz and Yemen.
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Conquered Eastern, and Central Europe, Middle East and Asia.
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Founder of the Mongol Empire. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia.
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The five dynasties that were apart were the Mumlak Dynasty, Khilji Dynasty, the Tughlaq Dynasty, the Sayyid dynasty, and the Lodi dynasty. The sultate ushered in a period of Indian Cultural renaissance.
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An English charter issued in an attempt to limit King John of Englands power and protect the peoples privlages.
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A cultural movement that spanned through the 13th-17th century. Humanism. Art. Science
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He was the 10th emperor of the Malian Empire. He was possibly the wealthiest ruler of his day.
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A series of wars between the house of Valois and the house of Plantagenet for the French throne. Final outcome was a victory for Valois.
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Followed the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. Construction of a large navy and an army of one million troops.
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He was a fourteenth-century conquerer of Western, South, and Central Asia. He was the founder of the Mughal Dynasty
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He was a Chinese explorer and diplomat who sailed to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Voyages sponsored by Ming Empire.
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Created by Johannes Gutetnberg His invention was to split the text into its individual components, such as lower and upper case letters, punctuation marks, ligatures and abbreviations.
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Also known as Ivan the Great. While in power he tripled the territory of the state, and laid the foundations of the Russian State,
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Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans in 800 and was thus the forerunner of the Holy Roman Empire, though not officially constituted until 962. The empire was meant to serve as a protector of the Catholic church.
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Preceded the Sui Dynasty. Largely a period of progress and stability.
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This empire saw the first use of gunpowder and first government in world history to issue paper money.
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A soldier of slave origin. Mamluks became a powerful military caste in various Muslim societies.
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The state included territories stretching south to the Black Sea, east to Volga, and west to the Kindgom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuana.
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Emperor of the Romans. He expanded the Frankish kindom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe.
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Imperial Chinese Dynasty which unified China in the 6th century. During the period South and North China was reunified and the Grand Canal was built.