1. C.E.
All You Need to Know

2. 600-1450 is referred to as the Post-Classical Era.
The chapters about this time period cover the Middle East, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia

3. Maps

7. Timeline, Wooohooo!

8. Timeline 500 C.E. 600 C.E. 700 C.E. 800 C.E. 900 C.E. 1000 C.E.
Muhammad
Sui Dynasty
600 C.E.
Tang Dynasty
Ummayad Caliphate
668 Korean Independence
700 C.E.
750 Abbasid Caliphate
777 North African Islamic kingdoms form
800 C.E.
Charlemagne Empire
900 C.E.
Song Dynasty
Tula established by Toltecs
Vladmir I converts to Christianity
1000 C.E.
1054 Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity
1055 Abbasid caliphate controlled by Seljuk Turks
1066 Feudal monarchy on the rise
First Crusade (to Palestine)

9. Even More Timeline 1100 C.E. 1200 C.E. 1300 C.E. 1400 C.E.
1100 China invents exploding powder
1150 Toltec Empire declines and ends
Kamakura Shogunate
1200 C.E.
Korea ruled by Mongols
1236 Mongols capture Russia
1258 Baghdad captured by Mongols, Abbasid caliphate ends
1265 First English parliament
China ruled by Mongols
1300 C.E.
1320s Europeans use first cannon in war
Bubonic plague originates in Gobi desert and spreads
1325 Rise of the Aztecs
Hundred Years’ War
1350 Rise of Inca
1400 C.E.
Chinese trading expeditions
1453 End of Byzantine Empire

10. Vocabulary

11. Vocabulary bedouins Umayyad Quran five pillars caliph Sunnis Jihad
Abbasids
Mongols
Sufis
manorialism
serfs
three-field system
feudalism
vassals
Magna Carta
Parliaments
Hundred Years War
guilds
black death
bushi
samurai
seppuku
shogun
daimyos
sinification

12. Important People!

13. Regarded as the Founder of France and Germany
Charlemagne
United Western Europe
Regarded as the Founder of France and Germany
Muhammad
Founded Islam
His revelations inspired writing of Quran

14. Mansa Musa
Ruled the Mali Empire
Had almost half of the world’s gold
Vladimir I of Kiev
Introduced Christianity to the Rus’

15. Major Developments

16. Major Developments Rise of Islam Bubonic Plague
Parliamentary Government
World Trading Network
Tang/Song Dynasty
Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity
American Empires
African Empires
Feudalism

17. Rise of Islam
Muhammed ( )- 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

18. World Trading Network
Strong Muslim Empires bridged gap between East and West
Technology spread due to trade

19. Bubonic Plague 13th to 16th century- Black Death swept through Eurasia
1/3 of population was killed

20. Parliamentary Government
Began in England in the 1100s
Idea spread from England to rest of Europe

21. Tang/Song Dynasty Scholar-gentry Examinations
Expanded territory west to Caspian Sea and north to Lake Baikal

22. 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

23. 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 s, took over much of western South America

24. 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

25. 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