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  • Period: 570 to Jan 14, 632

    Muhammad

    The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born and lived in Mecca. Muhammad began receiving revelations at the age of 40. He contributed a lot for Islam religion along with founding it during these time period. And Muhammad died on June 8, 632 AD.
  • Period: 589 to Jan 14, 618

    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived Imperial Chinese dynasty. Preceded by Southern and Northern Dynasties, unified China for the first time after over a century of north-south division. It was followed by the Tang Dynasty.
  • Period: Apr 16, 618 to Mar 17, 907

    Tang Dynasty

    During this time Tang Dynasty ruled the China. It was found by Li. He seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. The dynasty was interrupted briefly by the Second Zhou Dynasty when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, becoming the only Chinese empress regnant, ruling in her own right.
  • Period: Feb 21, 661 to May 16, 750

    Umayyad Dynasty

    The Umayyad Caliphate was the second of the four major Islamic caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was centered on the Umayyad dynasty hailing from Mecca. The Umayyad family had first come to power under the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan but the Umayyad regime was founded by Muawiya ibn Abu S
    ufyan, long-time governor of Syria, after the end of the First Muslim Civil War in 661. The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests.
  • Period: Jan 14, 668 to Jan 14, 935

    Sillia Dynasty

    Kingdom of ancient Korea that in AD 668 consolidated other polities on the Korean peninsula under the Unified Silla dynasty. Silla emerged as a full-fledged kingdom in the 6th century. Adopted a Chinese bureaucratic structure, but its aristocracy was never replaced by a bureaucratic class based on merit. Silla art before unification shows a tendency toward abstraction; postunification art reflects Tang naturalism.
  • Period: Feb 15, 710 to Mar 17, 794

    Nara Period

    Period of Japanese history during which the emperor resided in Nara. The capital city was modeled on the capital of Tang-dynasty China, Chang’an, from whom the Japanese borrowed extensively in this period. Buddhism, which had entered Japan a little more than a century earlier, rose in popularity, and many temples and statues were commissioned. The Chinese writing system was introduced and modified by the Japanese allowing two official histories and the earliest Japanese poetry collections to be
  • Period: Aug 17, 762 to Jun 23, 1258

    Abbasid Dynasty

    The ‘Abbasids took their name from an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, al-’Abbas, whose descendants formed one of several groups agitating for change under the Umayyad dynasty.
  • Period: Jan 16, 768 to Aug 25, 814

    Reign of Charlemagne

    Charlemagne regularized the central administration and implemented more direct influence on local affairs through expanded use of the written word. He developed special agents to investigate imperial affairs. These agents also taught the local officials what was expected of them and reported to the court on local conditions. He also promoted commerce. The capital, Aachen, became the cultural center of Carolingian learning and art.
  • Period: Apr 30, 794 to Feb 15, 1185

    Heian Period

    Heian periods is a gradual decline of Chinese influence which, nevertheless, remained strong. Many of the imported ideas were gradually “Japanized”. In order to meet particular Japanese needs, several governmental offices were established in addition to the government system which was copied after the Chinese model, for example. In the arts too, native Japanese movements became increasingly popular.
  • Period: Mar 15, 802 to Aug 16, 1351

    Kingdom of Angkor

    When King Jayavarman II moved a Khmer settlement to Siem Reap province and the settlement became an administrative centre of Khmer empire. During the reign of King Suryavarman II, in which Angkor Wat temple was built, the Chams from Champa from the East began armed incursions and sacked Angkor.
  • Period: Dec 22, 830 to Aug 31, 1235

    Kingdom of Ghana

    When Ghana's ruling dynasty began is uncertain; it was mentioned for the first time in written records by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī in 830. As the empire declined it was finally made a vassal to the rising Mali Empire at some point in the 13th century.
  • Period: Apr 16, 960 to Jul 14, 1127

    Song Dynasty

    The Song dynasty was culturally the most brilliant era in later imperial Chinese history. A time of great social and economic change, the period in large measure shaped the intellectual and political climate of China down to the twentieth century.
  • Period: Apr 17, 1040 to Mar 26, 1157

    Saljuk Control Over Abbasid Dynasty

    The Seljuqs became the new rulers of the eastern Islamic lands following their defeat of the powerful Ghaznavids at the Battle of Dandanakan. The Seljuqs had reached and taken over Baghdad, which put an end to Buyid rule, and established themselves as the new protectors of the Abbasid caliphate and Sunni Islam.
  • Oct 14, 1066

    Battle of Hastings

    The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
  • Apr 16, 1204

    Fall of Constantinople

    Constantinople was sieged in 1204. The Turks later changed the name of the formerly Greek city to Istanbul.Before the siege of the city began, the Ottomans were at peace with the Byzantine Empire.
  • Period: May 16, 1206 to Mar 14, 1526

    Sultanate of Delhi

    Muslim rule was established in India. And during this period, India had different dynasties including Slave Dynasty.
  • Period: Sep 16, 1206 to Apr 14, 1279

    Mongol Conquest of all of China

    Genghis Khan was not satisfied to rule only his fellow Mongolians. Under his leadership the armies of Mongolia first conquered the other steppe nomads. As they did so, they became more powerful. These conquered peoples paid the Mongols tributes, giving them increased wealth. They also provided thousands of soldiers to fight in the Mongolian armies.In 1211 A.D., an army of over 100,000 horsemen invaded China. By 1270 A.D., all of China lay under the control of the Mongols.
  • Period: Jan 15, 1230 to

    Mali Empire

    Around 1200 A.D., a small city-state controlled by Ghana was able to win its independence. This city-state was named Mali. During the 1300s A.D., Mali expanded its territory and influence. By the late 1300s A.D., Mali controlled all of the former Kingdom of Ghana as well as much of the territory around it.This new kingdom faced many threats from both its neighbors as well as the people they had conquered. By the mid 1500s A.D., the peoples they had conquered began to rebel against their control.
  • Period: May 15, 1271 to Mar 14, 1368

    Yuan Dynasty

    when the Mongols invaded and took over China, they had already been ruling a large empire for about fifty years. Their empire stretched from India and Russia to northern China and Korea.the Mongols captured the Sung capital at Hangzhou, the Mongols controlled all of China. Kublai Khan, the Mongol leader, moved the capital of the Mongol empire from Karakorum in Central Asia to Beijing, China. when he was 56, Kublai Khan declared himself emperor of China.
  • Period: Mar 16, 1275 to Apr 15, 1292

    Marco Polo's Trip to China

    Marco Polo’s travels to China immortalized in his Travels of Marco Polo. Marco, his father, and uncle set out from Venice reaching China. The Polos spent a total of 17 years in China.
  • Period: Mar 28, 1336 to Apr 16, 1405

    Tamerlane

    By the late 1300s A.D., the empire that Genghis Khan had built was almost completely gone. The Mongol people had returned to their nomadic ways of life, living in tribes, and moving from location to location in search of hunting grounds. In 1390 A.D., a new nomadic leader emerged. This leader, a man by the name of Timur Lenk (or Tamerlane in English) again united the different nomadic tribes of the Asian Steppe under his authority.Timur was a brutal and merciless warlord. Yet, despite this bruta
  • Period: Jun 16, 1371 to Mar 4, 1433

    Zheng He's expedition

    Zheng He (1371 – 1433) was a great Chinese explorer and fleet commander. He went on seven major expeditions to explore the world for the Chinese emperor and to establish Chinese trade in new areas.