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

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Making Way for Islam

Justinian's War for the Second Coming - 501 to 565 CE

Persia and Constantinople Make Way for Islam - 541 to 630 CE

Islam to 680 CE - Muhammad the Prophet, expansion and successions

Islam, Fragmentation and Core Beliefs, to 1200 CE - Abbasids and a Golden Age

Early Medieval Europe

Darkness and Monasteries: Europe in the 500s - demons, ordeals, medicine by prayer, violence

Slavs, Bulgars, and Magyars, to 927 - into the Balkans

Spain to 1000 CE - from the Visigoths to Muslims and Europe's leading city, Córdoba

Britain, from Arthur to William of Normandy - to 1066

Continental Europe to 1054 - Charlemagne and problems within Christianity

Asians to the Conquest of Constantinople

India, from 501 to 1200 - Islam arrives

Japan, Buddhism and Warlords to the Kamakura - 501 to 1333 CE, civil war, Shinto vs Buddhism

China to 1126 - Bloody struggles, Confucianists vs Taoists vs Buddhists, the Sui and Song dynasties

Ghengis Khan and the Mongols - to the gates of Vienna and conquest of China (edited Jan/2008)

China from the Mongols to the Ming - withdrawal as a great power

The Mamelukes - out of chaos a succession of Islamic warlords

Timur (Tamerlane) - rise to power, conquest and mosque building

The Turks, Balkans and Constantinople, to 1500 - the Ottomans into Thrace, the Balkans and Constantinople

Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to 1500 CE

Europe, the Church and Economic Growth to 1300 - plague, crusades, heretics, ideas and medieval barbarity

Europe and the Terrible 1300s - plague, depopulation, intellectual change, war, the end of chivalry

Europe in the 1400s - more Hunred Years' War, growth of the state and travel on the sea 

African Empires to 1500 CE - the kingdom of Askum and Africa in general (edited Feb/2008)

Maya, Aztec, Inca, Inuit: before Columbus - to 1500 CE