Unit 3 600-1450

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450

    Post Classical Era

  • Period: Jan 1, 601 to Dec 31, 1400

    Trans Saharan Trade Route

    This trade route ran through much of the Saharan Desert, artifacts were traded along wirh salt
  • Jan 1, 610

    Start of Islam

    Muhammad receives first revelation from Allah
  • Dec 31, 612

    Assyrian Empire Falls

    The city of Ashur was the greatest Empire in the ancient world, Their war machine was the most efficient military force
  • Jan 1, 618

    Sui Dynasty

    Was succeeded by the Tang Dynasty, economic and political advances were achieved
  • Period: Jan 1, 618 to Dec 31, 907

    Tang Dynasty

    Golden Age of Cosmopolitan culture
  • Period: Jan 1, 618 to Dec 31, 906

    Chinese Woodbox Printing

    Was inspired by bronze or stone seals, the process of woodbox printing was mastered by the end of the Tang Dynasty
  • Jan 1, 632

    Muhammad

    Was the prophet of Islam
  • Period: Jan 1, 749 to Dec 31, 754

    ʿABBĀSID CALIPH

    Reigned , first of the Abbasid Dynasty, which ruled over eastern Oslam for the next 500 years
  • Period: Jan 1, 768 to Dec 31, 814

    Carolingian Empire

    Was Ruled by Charlemagne, and set up weight and measures also an Imperial bureaucracy
  • Period: Jan 1, 936 to Dec 31, 973

    Otto I ruled

    He created Holy Roman Empire, wanted to regain Unity in Western Europe and received title of emperor from the Pope
  • Period: Jan 1, 960 to Dec 31, 1279

    Song Dynasty

    Most brilliant era in later imperial Chinese history shaped the climate intellectually and politically
  • Period: Jan 1, 1095 to Dec 31, 1291

    Crusades

    Christians followed The Popes orders to go against Muslims in the Holy Land
  • Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Dec 31, 1300

    High Middle Ages

    Was after the Early Middle Ages and followed by the Late Middle ages
  • Dec 31, 1100

    Early Middle Ages

    Began with fall of Western Roman Europe, which merged into the Renaissance and the Age of discovery
  • Period: Jan 1, 1162 to Dec 31, 1227

    Temujin

    He led the Mongols, was ruthless to enemies and generous to friends, would bring defeated warriors into his own
  • Period: Jan 1, 1162 to Dec 31, 1227

    Genghis Khan

    Was humble and great leader of the Mongols, established the largest land empire and conquered much of Asia and China
  • Period: Jan 1, 1206 to Dec 31, 1337

    Mongol Conquest

    The Mongols continued theses raids and attacks for years, they wanted to maintain traded goods and so they would invade in crisis
  • Period: Jan 1, 1280 to Dec 31, 1337

    Mansa Musa

    He made a pilgrimage to Mecca, was a devoted Muslim
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1450

    Late Middle Ages

    The hundred years war and the Plague
  • Period: Jan 1, 1346 to Dec 31, 1353

    The Black Death

    Arrived by sea in Europe, killed more than 20 million. Symptoms were fever, inability to keep food down and delirious from pain
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Silk Road Ended

    The Silk Road was a network of trade Routes throughout Asia and connected East and West to the Mediterranean Sea
  • Period: to Dec 31, 1500

    Start of Indian Ocean Trade

    Trade on the Mediterranean, like the silk road it consisted of goods