Middle Ages
the World from the 6th to 15th Centuries
Making Way for Islam
Islam to CE 680 -- Muhammad the Prophet, expansion
and successions
Early Medieval Europe
Spain to CE 1000
-- from the Visigoths
to Muslims and Europe's leading city, Córdoba
Asians to the Conquest of Constantinople
Japan, 501 CE to the mid-1100s
-- from Shinto vs Buddhism through the Asuka, Nara and Heian periods
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)
The Mamelukes -- out of chaos a succession of Islamic
warlords
Timur (Tamerlane) -- rise to power, conquest and
mosque building
Christendom, Africa and the Americas, to CE 1500
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 CE 1500
-- the kingdom of Askum
and Africa in general (edited Feb/2008)