Postclassical Timeline (600-1450)

Events

Europe 8) Reign of Justinian (Byzantine Empire)

527 - 565

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Asia 20) Sui dynasty

589 - 618

Africa and Oceania 34) Islam begins spreading across North Africa

600 - 699

Africa and Oceania 37) Expansion of settlements and migraines throughout Polynesia: including Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Easter Island

600 - 1400

Europe 13) Early Middle Ages

600 - 1000

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Asia 21) Tang dynasty

618 - 907

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Middle East 1) Muhammad establishes Islam

622

Middle East 2) The rise and decline of the Umayyad Dynasty

661 - 750

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Asia 26) Korea wins independence from Tang dynasty

668

Middle East 4) The split of Sunni and Shia

680

Asia 23) Peak of Buddhist influence in China

690 - 705

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Middle East 3) The rise and decline of the Abbasid empire

750 - 1258

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Europe 9) First king of Kievan Russia

855

Asia 27) Vietnam wins independence from China

939

Asia 22) Song dynasty

960 - 1279

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Africa and Oceania 35) Ghana at the height of it's power

1000

Europe 14) High Middle Ages

1000 - 1300

Europe 10) Great Schism

1054

Europe 12) First Cusades

1096 - 1099

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Asia 24) Invention of gun powder

1100

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Europe 11) Byzantine Decline

1100 - 1450

Americas 38) Fall of the Tultec

1150

Asia 25) Japanese feudal age begins

1185

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Middle East 5) Saladin's recapture of Jerusalem (and other lands conquered by the first Crusades)

1187

Asia 19) Delhi Sultanate established

1206

Asia 28) Chinggis Khan becomes khagan

1206

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Asia 29) Chinggis Khan dies

1227

Europe 16) Mongol domination of Russia

1237 - 1480

Middle East 7) Mumluk victory: end of Mongol drive west

1260

Asia 30) Mongol/Yuan dynasty, China

1271 - 1368

Middle East 6) Mongol conquest of Islamic heartlands

1285

Africa and Oceania 36) Mali at the height of it's power

1300

Americas 40) Rise of the Incas