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550
The Gupta Empire in India is destroyed by the Huns
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793
Vikings first attack England, starting a 200 year regime of terror in England and Europe
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950
Polynesians colonize New Zealand
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1096
European Christians begin the first Crusade
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1100
Inca civilization emerges in south America
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1192
Japan comes under the rule of the first shogun
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1279
the Mongols defeat the Sung Dynasty in China
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1346
First evidence in Europe of the outbreak of the pandemic known as the Black Death
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1427
Aztec Empire founded in central Mexico
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1453
Ancient Rome’s Eastern Empire collapses starting a period in Europe known as the middle Ages.