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Period: 200 to
Era of Division; political division in China; time of greatest Buddhist influence
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220
End of Han
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330
Constantinople made capital of Eastern Roman Empire
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Period: 570 to Nov 18, 632
Lifetime of Muhammad
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1450
The Postclassical Era
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Period: Nov 18, 600 to Nov 18, 700
Islam spreads across North Africa
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Period: Nov 18, 624 to Nov 18, 627
Wars between followers of Muhammad and the Quraysh of Mecca
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Nov 18, 646
Taika reforms in Japan
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Period: Nov 18, 710 to
Imperial Japanese capital at Nara
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Period: Jan 1, 750 to Dec 31, 1258
Abbasid Dynasty
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Nov 18, 1050
Invention of block printing with moveable type
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Nov 18, 1054
Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity
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Period: Nov 18, 1096 to Nov 18, 1270
Crusades
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Nov 18, 1100
Invention of gunpowder
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Period: Nov 18, 1100 to Nov 18, 1453
Byzantine decline, growing Turkish attack
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Nov 18, 1119
First reference to use of compass for sea navagation
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Period: Nov 18, 1127 to Nov 18, 1279
Southern Song
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Period: Nov 18, 1150 to Nov 18, 1300
Gothic style spreds
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Period: Nov 18, 1185 to Nov 18, 1333
Kamakura Shogunate in Japan
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Nov 18, 1200
Rise of the empire Mali
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Nov 18, 1204
Capture of Constantinople during 4th Crusade
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Period: Nov 18, 1237 to Nov 18, 1241
Mongols Capture Russia
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Nov 18, 1275
Marco Polo 20 years in China
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Period: Nov 18, 1279 to Nov 18, 1368
Mongol(Yuan) dynasty rules all China
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Period: Nov 18, 1290 to Nov 18, 1317
New famines in Europe
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Nov 18, 1291
First Italian expedition seeks route to Indies
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Nov 18, 1320
First European use of cannon in warfare
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Nov 18, 1324
Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa
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Nov 18, 1325
Aztecs established in central Mexico; Tenochtitlan founded
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Nov 18, 1330
Black death reaches China
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Period: Nov 18, 1338 to Nov 18, 1453
100 Years War
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Nov 18, 1348
Bubonic Plague in Europe
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Nov 18, 1348
Peak of Black Death in Middle East
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Nov 18, 1350
Incas established in Cuzco area
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Nov 18, 1368
Mongols expelled from China; Ming dynasty
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Period: Nov 18, 1405 to Nov 18, 1433
Chinese expeditions
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Nov 18, 1453
Fall of Constantinople/ Byzantine Empire
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Defeat of Arab attack on Constantinople
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Spread of new plows; use of horses in ag., transport (West Europe)
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Germanic kings "revive" Roman Empire
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Period of Buddhist persecution(840s)
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Japenese capital shifts to Heian(Kyoto)
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Last Japenese embassy to China
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Period: to
Charlemagne's Empire
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Period: to
Sui dynasty; building of the Grand Canal
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Period: to
Tang Dynasty
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Period: to Nov 18, 705
Emperess Wu; Buddhism in China peaks
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Period: to Nov 18, 1279
Song Dynasty; Neo-Confucianism