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L:ast pre islamic Persian Empire. REcognized as one of the two main powers, along with the Roman Empire and its successor. Included many influential, historical periods.
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Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language. Established in Mexico and central america.
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The new Byzantine capital. Was moved after the disintegration of Rome.
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The predominantly greek speaking eastern side of the roman empire became to be know as the byzantine empire. In 300 years it had lost most of its offshore-ish territory and became part of present day Turkey and sporadic regions in Italy and yugoslavia.
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Began Aprox 500-700CE. Expanded throughout west Africa. Great economy from gold and salt trades. Big military power, over 200k men.
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Happened shortly after Muhammad's death. People were disagreeing in who should take leadership in the islamic religion. Most people wanted the mayority to choose their leader, while a small group wanted the leadership to stay in Muhammad's family.
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The Umayyad Empire is the sixth largest empire in history. It was ruled by the Umayyad Dynasty. It was the first dynasty of the Muslim Caliphate.
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Charles the great. King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of romans from 800 until his death in 814.
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2nd of the two great muslim caliphates. Overthrew the Umayyad, and flourished for centuries until its capital in Bahgdad was sacked by Mongols.
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Sunni muslam turco persian empire. Was the target for the first crusade. Were great patrons for art, culture and literature.
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Became sultan of Egypt and Syria. Led battles against crusaders. Reigned from 1174 until his death.
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Capital in Cuzco (like the tv show) and absorbed many Andean tribes by 1400s . Largest Empire in pre-columbian America.
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The founder and emperor of the Mongol Empire. Went into power by uniting nomadic tribes.
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The mongol Empire expanded throughout most, if not all Asia, parts of india, middle east and eastern europe. Largest empire in the history of humanity.
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Name given to 3 regions in Indian territory. The dynasties were built with the Mali Empire which later the sultanate was absorbed by the munghal empire.
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English charter directly challenging monarchs authority. Required king to give off some liberties.
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Founded after the Ghana Empire collapsed. Expanded from the original Ghana territory. Restored trade with neighboring countries and brought wealth and stability to the area.
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A Mamluk is a soldier from slave origin. This was a regime who ruled Egypt. Had a higher social status than freeborm Egyptians muslims.
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Heavy cultural movement beginning in Florence and spread to Europe. Encompassed learning from classical sources, devleoping new kinds of paintings, Vinci and Michaelangelo are two best known artists.
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Central Mexico civilization. Practiced human sacrifice. Lasted until was conquered by spanish soldiers.
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10th emperor of the empire of Mali. Made a big building program that build many great moskes and madrasas (schools).
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14th century conquerer. South and central Asia. Founder of the Timurid Empire and Dynasty.
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War for the french throne by two families. House of Valois (english rulers, founded by Henry's dad) and House of Valois (the French guys).
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Sonhai is able to gain independence from the Mali Empire. Is able to expand to on of the greatest islamic states in Africa. Became a thriving cultural and commercial center.
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Time for great travelling, mapped the world and brought great treasures. Folding fan brought from Japan/Korea (became really popular)
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Wiki, Zheng HeWas a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat. Went in many vo9yages throughout the world and brought back many unheard treasures.
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First European to use movable type printing. Global inventor of the printing press.
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Grand prince of Moscow. Reigned from 1462 to 1505.
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The Umayyad empire conquered Hispania. The christian visigothic kigndom of hispania. First few battles were done with north african soldiers.
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Sui Dynasty, WikipediaChinese Imperial dynasty. Ended four centuries of division between rivals.Coinage standarized & Great Wall expanded.
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Period of stability and progress. Preceded the Sui. Was the msot populous city in the world at the time. The Tang Empire is famous for itss stories, literature, dancing, music, and art.
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Muhammed went to pray in a cave and he recieved a message from God to become a prophet. Islam technically started.
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Realm that existed for about a millennium in Central Europe, ruled by a Holy Roman Emperor. IEmperor power gradually weakened in favor of princes.
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Was a time of wonderful invention and art, justlike most of the other Empires & Dynasties. First government in the world to issue paper money and a permanent standing army.
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Large area founded by Nikolai Karamzin with slavic and scandinavian tribes. Existed until Mongol invasions weakened it.