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

Power and Class

Byzantium and the Sassanids make way for Islam

Muslim Golden Age and Disintegration

Europe in the Early Middle Ages

India, from 501 to 1200

The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties

Turks, Conquests and the Crusades

Genghis Khan and the Great Mongol Empire

China from Mongols to the Ming

Japan to 1333 CE

Muslims from Samarkand to Instanbul

Europe to 1000 to 1500 CE

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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