World history final project

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500

    Maya

    located in southern mexico and a large portion of south America.
    with the knowledge of the calendar they were able to farm successfully
  • Period: 319 to 550

    Gupta Empire

    south asia. they had a close approximation of pie
  • Period: 500 to 1453

    Byzantine Empire

    controlled land in Europe, Asia, and Africa. constantinople was a great city protected from water and from land
  • Period: 500 to 1200

    Ghana

    west Africa. Their accounts paint a picture of a rich kingdom with a strong government and a large, powerful army. they were the trade empire.
  • Period: 618 to

    Imperial China (Tang-Ming Dynasties)

    china. introduced gunpowder
  • Period: 632 to 661

    Muslim Empire (Rashidun-Abbasid Caliphates)

    middle east and north africa. introduction of paper from china
  • Period: 794 to

    Japan (heian and Edo period)

    japan. during the edo period their copper production was the highest in the world. during the heian period their art advanced
  • Period: 800 to

    Holy Roman Empire

    western and central Europe. there army was highly trained and disciplined
  • Period: 1235 to

    Mali

    west africa. building an established, centralized state
  • Period: 1300 to 1521

    Aztecs

    northern mexico. they developed mathematics
  • Period: 1375 to

    Songhai

    west africa. there agriculture was advanced
  • Period: 1400 to 1532

    Incas

    south america, there engineering skills were a lot better then most