Postclassical Timeline Assignment APWH Period 2

Events

Reign of Justinian*

527 - 565

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Sui Dynasty

589 - 618

Early Middle Ages

600 - 1000

Expansion of settlements and migrations throughout Polynesia*

600 - 1400

https://www.pandotrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Top-Polynesia-Tahiti-740x417.jpg

Islam Begins spreading across North Africa

600

Tang Dynasty

618 - 907

Muhammed establishes Islam

622

Rise and Decline of the Umayyad Dynasty

661 - 750

Korea wins independence from Tang Dynasty

668

Split of the Sunni and Shia

680

Peak of Buddhist influence in China

690 - 705

Rise and Decline of the Abbasid Empire*

750 - 1258

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First king of Kievan Russia

855

Vietnam wins independence from China

939

Song Dynasty

960 - 1279

Ghana at the height of its power

1000

High Middle Ages*

1000 - 1300

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Great Schism*

1054

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First Crusades

1096 - 1099

Byzantine Decline

1100 - 1450

Invention of Gunpowder*

1100

http://historiarex.com/uploads/markers/395/1377380157_Gunpowder.GIF

Fall of the Toltec*

1150

https://www.farhorizons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Tula-warriors-Fotolia.jpg

Japanese Feudal Age Begins

1185

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

1187

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Chinggis Khan becomes khagan

1206

Delhi Sultanate Established

1206

Chinggis Khan dies*

1227

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Mongol Domination of Russia

1237 - 1480

Mongol Conquest of Islamic Heartlands

1258

Mamluk victory: End of Mongol drive west

1260

Mongol/Yuan dynasty, China*

1271 - 1368

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Late Middle Ages

1300 - 1450

Little Ice Age in Europe