pre-world & period 1

1600 BCE

1600 BCE

Development of Judaism in the Fertile Crescent

470-430 BCE

Golden Age of Athens

332-323 BCE

Alexander the Great

1st century CE

Christianity begins in the Roman Empire

180 CE

End of Pax Romana

476 CE

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

527-565 CE

Reign of Justinian (Byzantine Empire)

7th century CE

Islam develops in Saudi Arabia

1054 CE

Eastern and Western Church Schism (split)

1095 CE

The Crusades begin

1258 CE

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295 CE

Marco Polo's travels

1324 CE

Mana Musa's pilgrimage (hajj) from Mali to Mecca

1325-1349 CE

Ibn Battuta's travels

c. 1310 CE

Renaissance begins

1337 -1453 CE

The Hundred Years' War

1347-1348 CE

Bubonic Plague in Europe