The Rapa Nui are the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the Pacific Ocean. Believed to be the first settlers of Hawaii.
Muhammad receives first vision of Gabriel in a cave near Mecca in 610. Later spreads Islam stating that their is only one true God.
Short period of reunification in northern India started by King Harsha, who conquered the region when he was a teenager. Harsha's assassination ended the kingdom. Ended:648 CE
Territorially one of the largest empires in Chinese history .Developed and used the equal-field system. Worked on the Grand Canal. Ended:907 CE
661-750 Some of the most prominent of the Meccan merchant class. Network of alliances helped them bring stability to the Islamic community.
The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic caliphates to succeed the Prophet Muhammad. The Abbasid dynasty descended from the Prophet's youngest uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE). They ruled as caliphs from their capital in Baghdad, in modern Iraq, after taking over authority of the Muslim empire from the Umayyads in 750 CE.
750-1258 A very cosmopolitan dynasty. Was not a dynasty focused on conquering. Focused on administering the empire that they did have.
Charlemagne (c.742-814), also known as Karl and Charles the Great, was a medieval emperor who ruled much of Western Europe. Charlemagne became king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe in present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany.
960-1279 Led by Song Taizu. So big it needed to collect more taxes, leading to major rebllions. They did not have a sucessful military system.
a member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs.
a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office.
It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and its territories. Its head is the Sovereign of the United Kingdom (currently Queen Elizabeth II) .
The invention of gunpowder is usually attributed to Chinese alchemy, and is popularly listed as one of the "Four Great Inventions" of China. The invention was made perhaps as early as during the Tang Dynasty (9th century), but certainly by the Song Dynasty (11th century). Knowledge of gunpowder spread throughout the Old World as a result of the Mongol conquests of the 13th century. It was employed in warfare to some effect from at least the 14th century, although the development of effective artillery took place during the 15th century, and firearms came to dominate Early Modern warfare in Europe by the 17th century.
a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
was one of the largest contiguous land empires in history. The empire was the result of the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes of historical Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan, who was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206. The empire grew rapidly under his rule and then under the rule of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction.
Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights.
The Ottoman Empire, sometimes referred to as the Turkish Empire, was an empire founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in northwestern Anatolia
The Aztecs, who probably originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico, arrived in Mesoamerica around the beginning of the 13th century. From their magnificent capital city, Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs emerged as the dominant force in central Mexico, developing an intricate social, political, religious and commercial organization that brought many of the region’s city-states under their control by the 15th century. Invaders led by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes overthrew the Aztecs by force and captured Tenochtitlan in 1521, bringing an end to Mesoamerica’s last great native civilization.
the series of wars between England and France, 1338–1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais.
a serious, sometimes fatal, infection with the bacterial toxin Yersinia pestis, transmitted by fleas from infected rodents and characterized by high fever, weakness, and the formation of buboes, especially in the groin and armpits. It was spread through the Silk Road.
the Inca empire still reached only 20 miles beyond the capital city of Cuzco. Rulers Viracocha Inca, and later his son, Pachacuti Inca, increased the size of the Inca empire through conquest. From the 1400s to the early 1500s, the empire grew and developed.
the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 16th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
The imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
Zheng He helped extend Chinese maritime and commercial influence throughout the region bordering on the Indian Ocean. Subsequent voyages took him to Arabia, the eastern coast of Africa, Southeast Asia, and India. Chinese emigration to, and influence in, Southeast Asia increased in the wake of these missions, resulting in tributary trade to China that lasted into the 19th century.
The Portuguese and then the Spanish were the first Western European nations to promote exploration around Africa and, eventually, the Americas. Both of these nations are located on the Iberian peninsula.
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