Middle Ages
the World from the 6th to 15th Centuries

Power and Class

Byzantium and the Sassanids make way for Islam -- CE 501 to 672

Muslim Golden Age and Disintegration -- 672 to 1045

Europe, from 501 to 1200

India, from 501 to 1200

Turks, Conquests and the Crusades, 840 to 1212

The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties -- 501 to 1126

Genghis Khan and the Great Mongol Empire -- 1200 to 1281

China from Mongols to the Ming -- 1294 to 1400

Japan to 1333 CE

Muslims from Samarkand to Instanbul, 1336 to 1483

Europe, 1201 to 1500

African Empires to CE 1500

Maya, Aztec, Inca, Inuit: before Columbus

Science and Philosophy

Western Europe -- Bede, Abelard, Lombard, Aquinas, Ockam, Aucassin and Nicolette

East Asia -- Cheng-Yi, Xhu-Xi, neo-Confuciansim

Muslims -- al-Kindi, Ibn Sena (Avicenna), al-Ghazali, Omar Khayyam

Religion

Christianity

Islam

India

Japan

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