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

Making Way for Islam

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

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

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

Islam, Fragmentation and Core Beliefs, to CE 1200 -- 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 CE 1000 -- 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, 501 CE to the mid-1100s -- from Shinto vs Buddhism through the Asuka, Nara and Heian periods

Medieval Japan to 1333 -- the Kamakura period

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 CE 1500

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

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

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