Construction of the Grand Canal (Sui Dynasty)
Late 600’s
Khmer Empire Founded
802
Gunpowder Invented
850
Establishment of Neo-Confucianism
Late 1100’s
Seljuk Turks Invade Abbasids
1071
Mongols Defeat the Abbasids
1258
Fall of the Song/establishment of Yuan
1279
Ottoman Empire Founded
1299
Ibn Battuta’s Travels
1325-1332
Mansa Musa’s Hajj
1337
Bubonic Plague Reached Europe
1348
Zheng He’s First Voyage
1405
Aztec Empire Established
1428
Fall of Constantinople
1453
Columbus’ First Voyage to New World
1492
Sikhism Established by Guru Nanak
C. 1500
95 Theses of Martin Luther
1517
First Enslaved Africans Brought to the New World
1526
Reign of Akbar (Mughal Empire)
1542-1605
Fall of the Inca Empire
1572
Ana Nzinga’s Resistance Mvt.
1626-1635
Shah Jahan Built the Taj Mahal
1632-1653
Tokugawa Shogunate Closed to the World
1635
Qing (Manchu) Dynasty Founded
1644
John Locke Wrote the 2nd Treatise on Government
1689
Peter the Great Built St. Petersburg
1703
Fall of the Safavid Empire
1722