TIMELINE 6th to 15th Centuries

6th to 15th Centuries

1    Byzantium and the Sassanids make way for Islam

2    Islam, Power and Empire, to 677 CE

Muhammed the Prophet wins Militarily | Succession Politics, 622-23 | Arabs Conquer Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine | Muslim Conquests in Egypt and Iran | Succession Conflict and the Sunni-Shia Divide | The Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus, to 677 CE..

3   Islamic Empire and Disintegration

Order, Disorder and the Umayyad Caliphate | More Expansion, 689 to 717 CE | The Pro-Peace Caliph, Umar II | Power for the Abbasids and Death for Umayyads, 720-50 CE | The Abbasids, a Golden Age and Disintegration to 1055 CE 

4     India, from 501 to 1200

Hephthalites and Declining Trade | Islam Arrives, 711 to 1200 CE | Stagnation and Economic Decline in Hindu Society

5  China, 501 to 1200
The Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties

Bloody road to the Sui Dynasty | The Sui and Tang Dynasties | Conceit and Military Weakness under the Song Dynasty 

6     Europe: 501 to 1000 CE

Up from a So-Called Dark Age | Anglo-Saxons into England | Christianity Returns to Britain | Spain from the 6th to 10th Century | The Slavs | The Byzantine Empire, 650 to 726 CE | the Icon and Images Conflict | the Bulgars | the Lombards to Charlemagne | Vikings, Magyars, Warlords and Feudalism

7    Europe: 1001-1212

Growing towns and intellectuality | Decline of Muslim Power in Spain | William of Normandy Defeats the Anglo-Saxons | English Kings and Resistance in Wales and Scotland | Europe and the First Crusade |Knights, Chivalry, Sadism and Impulsiveness | More Crusades and Heretics, 1144 to 1212

8   Europe, 1201 to 1500 CE

Growth and Change in the 1200s | Plague and Progress in the 1300s | The Hundred Years' War | Cannon, Politics and Machiavelli | Russia and the Mongols, to Ivan III | Rising Powers of Portugal and Spain |Europe's Renaissance Begins