Timeline test unit 1 and unit 2

1100s CE

The Inca Empire emerges in the Valley of Cusco in South America

1120s CE

The Song government begins issuing paper money

1200s CE

Height of the Swahili city states, East African port cities ruled by kings wealthy from trade

1200s CE

Height of Great Zimbabwe, a cattle-herding society in Southwest Africa

1200s CE

The House of Solomon becomes the ruling dynasty of Ethiopia in East Africa

1200s CE

The kingdom of Tyo emerges in in central Africa

1200s CE

Expansion of the Crown of Castille against the Almohad Caliphate in southern Spain

1200s CE

Iroquois chiefs of North America form the confederation the Haudenosaunee (Five Nations)

1202 CE

The Fourth Crusade is formed to recapture Jerusalem, instead, the Crusaders attack Constantinople

1206 CE

Founding of the Delhi Sultanate in northwestern India

1206 CE

Genghis Khan united the tribes of the steps into a confederation

1215 CE

The Magna Carta is first issued in England limiting certain rights of the king

1240 CE

The kingdom of Mali is founded in West Africa

1250 CE

Founding of the Mamluk (manumitted slave soldiers) Sultanate in Cairo, Egypt

1258 CE

A Mongol army destroys the city of Baghdad, thus ending the Abbasid Caliphate

1258 CE

The kingdom of Dai Viet repels the first of first of four failed Mongol invasions of Vietnam

1271 CE

Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, begins his 24 year journey across the Silk Road

1274 CE

The Japanese shogunate repels the first of two massive invasions by the Mongols

1279 CE

The Mongols conquer the Song Dynasty, fully establishing their own dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty

1300s CE

The kingdom of Kongo emerges in central Africa

1300s CE

The Little Ice Age (cooling period) begins in Europe causing sudden turmoil and crisis

1300s CE

The Northern Crusades began in Europe spreading Christianity by conquest into the Baltic region

1300s CE

Height of Mayapan as the cultural and political center of the Yucatecan Maya civilization

1312 CE

Mansa Musa becomes ruler of Mali

1325 CE

Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler, begins his 29 year journey across Africa and Asia

1325 CE

The Aztec (Mexica) build their capital city Tenochtitlán on an island in the lake in the valley of Mexico

1337 CE

The Hundred Years War begins between the kingdoms of France and England

1346 CE

The Black Death reached Europe via through Kaffa and the Middle East through Baghdad

1368 CE

General Taizu leads armies against the Mongols and founds a new dynasty, the Ming Dynasty

1370 CE

Timur establishes his empire in Samarkand, attacking Persia, Russia, and north India

1380s CE

Gunpowder began being used for cannons in military warfare

1392 CE

Founding of the Chosŏn Dynasty in Korea

1405 CE

Chinese admiral Zheng He began his first of seven expeditions of huge treasure fleets into the Indian Ocean

1430 CE

The Empire of Songhai was founded

1439 CE

Johannes Gutenberg created his famous printing press

1450 CE

Height of manorial system and feudalism in Europe