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Sasanid Empire was an Iranian state. They had an established faith of Zoroastrian and Christianity. Islam was formed as a religiopolitical movement in the Sasanid Empire.
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The Maya were a mesoamerican civilization that made major contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar.
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Eastern part of the Roman Empire. Established Christianity as their official religion. The Empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453.
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Capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine.
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Islam began in Arabia with the prophet Muhammad.
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Schism lies in the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
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First hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs. From their capital at Damscus, the Umayyads ruled an empire that extended from Spain to India. They were overthrown by the Abbasid Caliphate.
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In 711 Muslim forces ivaded Spain and it took them seven years the conquered the Iberian penninsula.
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The King of the Franks who established the Carolingian Empire though military conquest which included all of Gaul and part of Italy and Germany. He sposored a brief intellectual revival.
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They were descendants of the phrophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids, overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad.
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The Seljuk Turks were a strong army of nomadic people from Central Asia that were created byt the Fatimid Dynasty. The Turks converted to Islam and prospered as soldiers for the Abbasid Caliphate. Turks took political and military control of the Abbasid Caliphate. Later the Turks were foolishly challenged by the Byzantine and won. They controlled the Anotalian penninsula by the 13th century
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The Crusades were armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. The crusades bought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellctual and cultural isolation.
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Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families.
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Saladin was the nephew of the Kurdish commander. Saladin took advantage of Nur al-Din's death to seize power and unify Syria and Egypt. Saladin recaptured Jerusalmen in 1250. His dynasty fell when Turkish Mamluks seized control of the government
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The title of Temüjin when he ruled the Mongols. Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire.
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Centralized Indian empire of varying extent created by Muslim Invaders. The Delhi Sultanate is responsible for introducing water control systems in northern India.
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The attacks on the midieval powees of Poland, Kieve, Hungary, and miscellaneous of proto-Russian tribes.
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The Magna Carta was a feudal document that gave written recognition to the fact that the relationship between King and vassals was based on mutual rights and obligations.
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The kingdom controlled trade routes that stretched form the edge of the Sahara in the north to forests in the south and that carried gold and other luxuries.
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The Mamluks were under military slavery under the Islamic system. The Mamluks were an important part of armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate. Mamluks founded their own state ruling Egypt and Syria
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The last powerful King of Mali. Musa doubled the size of the kingdom of Mali. He created a strong central government and divided the kingdom of Mali into provinces ruled by appointed governers.
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Aztec CIvilization created a powerful empire in Central Mexico and forced defeated people to provide goods and labor as tax (the tribute system).
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Timur gained control of Iran and much of Central Asia through conquest. He consolidated the status of Sunni Islam as orthodox and his descendants, maintained the empire for heavily a century and founded the Mughal Empire in India
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One of the largest Islamic empires in history.
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A period of intense artistic intellectual activity, said to be a "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture.
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The Ming Empire followed the Song. Included the construction of a huge army and navy. During this time, China's economy was based on global trade.
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Zhenge He was a Chinese admiral who undertook state-sponsored long-distance voyages.
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Ivan III was the prince of Moscow who established himself as an autocratic ruler in the late 1400's
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invented by Johannes Gutenberg, a german goldsmith. The mechanical systems involved with the press were assembled in the Holy Roman Empire.
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The Inca were the largest and most powerful Andean empire. THey controlled the Pacific coast of south America from Ecuador to Chile, from its capital of Cuzco.
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The Holy Roman Empire began in the mid-900s with the ascent of German king Otto.
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Preceded by the Sui Dynasty, the Tang was cosmopolitan. During the Tang Empire culture matured and flourished.
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Kieven Russia was a state established at Kiev in Ukraine by Scandinavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population
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The introduction of the camel. Traded with gold and salt in the trans-saharan trade.
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Sui Empire unified China in the 6th century.
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The Song Empire was divided into the Northern and Southern Song. It was the first government in history to issue paper money and banknotes and the first to set up a permanent standing navy.
