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600-1450 C.E.
All You Need to Know
• 600-1450 is referred to as the PostClassical Era.
• The chapters about this time period cover
the Middle East, Europe, South America,
Africa, Asia
Maps
Timeline, Wooohooo!
Timeline
500 C.E.
600 C.E.
700 C.E.
•570-632 Muhammad
•618-907 Tang Dynasty
•750 Abbasid Caliphate
•589-618 Sui Dynasty
•661-750 Ummayad Caliphate
•777 North African Islamic
kingdoms form
•668 Korean Independence
800 C.E.
900 C.E.
1000 C.E.
•800-814
Charlemagne Empire
•960-1127 Song Dynasty
•1054 Schism between Eastern
and Western Christianity
•Tula established by Toltecs
•Vladmir I converts to
Christianity
•1055 Abbasid caliphate
controlled by Seljuk Turks
•1066 Feudal monarchy on the
rise
•1096-1099 First Crusade (to
Palestine)
Even More Timeline
1100 C.E.
1200 C.E.
1300 C.E.
•1100 China invents
exploding powder
•1231-1392 Korea ruled by
Mongols
•1320s Europeans use
first cannon in war
•1150 Toltec Empire
declines and ends
•1236 Mongols capture Russia
•1320-1340 Bubonic
plague originates in
Gobi desert and
spreads
•1185-1333 Kamakura
Shogunate
•1258 Baghdad captured by
Mongols, Abbasid caliphate
ends
•1265 First English parliament
1400 C.E.
•1405-1433 Chinese
trading expeditions
•1453 End of
Byzantine Empire
•1279-1368 China ruled by
Mongols
•1325 Rise of the
Aztecs
•1338-1453 Hundred
Years’ War
•1350 Rise of Inca
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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bedouins
Umayyad
Quran
five pillars
caliph
Sunnis
Jihad
Abbasids
Mongols
Sufis
manorialism
serfs
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three-field system
feudalism
vassals
Magna Carta
Parliaments
Hundred Years War
guilds
black death
bushi
samurai
seppuku
shogun
daimyos
sinification
Important People!
Charlemagne
Muhammad
Founded Islam
His revelations
inspired writing of
Quran
United Western
Europe
Regarded as the
Founder of
France and
Germany
Mansa Musa
Vladimir I of Kiev
Introduced Christianity to
the Rus’
Ruled the Mali Empire
Had almost half of the world’s gold
Major Developments
Major Developments
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Rise of Islam
Bubonic Plague
Parliamentary Government
World Trading Network
Tang/Song Dynasty
Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity
American Empires
African Empires
Feudalism
Rise of Islam
• Muhammed (570-632)- bedouin tribes in
present-day Saudi Arabia.
• Arabian tribes eventually united by Islam
and the booty from continued raids against
other areas
• Bedouin tribes take over Iran, Iraq, North
India
World Trading Network
• Strong Muslim Empires bridged gap
between East and West
• Technology spread due to trade
Bubonic Plague
• 13th to 16th century- Black Death swept
through Eurasia
• 1/3 of population was killed
Parliamentary Government
• Began in England in the 1100s
• Idea spread from England to rest of
Europe
Tang/Song Dynasty
• Scholar-gentry
• Examinations
• Expanded territory west to Caspian Sea
and north to Lake Baikal
Byzantium and Orthodox
Christianity
• Created from eastern part of Roman
Empire
• Russia inherited Orthodox Christianity and
the Byzantine tradition
• The Byzantine Empire was surrounded by
Muslims to the south and Turkic tribes to
the East
American Civilizations
• Maya-Yucatan Peninsula
• cities abandoned in 700s
• Toltecs-came after Mayas, set up capital
city in 968 in central Mexico
• Aztecs-came after Toltecs
• Incas-1300-1400s, took over much of
western South America
African Empires
• Originally mostly stateless society – no
bureaucracy or professional military
• Islam spread quickly through Africa, with its
ideas of equality
• In Northeast Africa, the Sahel, several kingdoms
emerged. In order: Ghana, Mali, Songhay.
• Before the 400s, there were already Christian
converts in Egypt and Eastern Africa
• Ethiopian kingdom and Copts in Egypt were
Christian
Feudalism
• Rome fell, chaos reigned from 500s to
900s
• Catholicism provided only organization
• Charlemagne created feudal empire based
on Papal support
• Soon other groups also did this