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Timeline for an Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction
1000-1500 C.E.
Chapters 18-22
Date
Event
4th
century
950-115
Introduction of bananas to Africa
962
Coronation of Otto I as Holy Roman
Emperor
Kingdom of Ghana
11th-13th
century
11-15th
cenury
1055
High point of the Toltec empire
Swahili cities
Tughril Beg Named Sultan
10561106
1066
Reign of Emperor Henry IV
1071
Battle of Manzikert
10731085
10961099
12th-15th
century
12th-16th
century
11221204
11521190
11701221
1175
Reign of Pope Gregory VII
11821226
1187
Life of St. Francis
13th-15th
Century
12021204
12061227
Mali Empire
Norman invasion of England
First Crusade
Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe
Christian kingdom of Axum
Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Reign of Emperor Frederick
Barbarossa
Life of St. Dominic
Collapse of the Toltec empire
Recapture of Jerusalem by Saladin
Fourth Crusade
Reign of Chinggis Khan
Description/Significance
Region of
World
12111234
1214
Mongol conquest of northern China
12191221
12251274
12301255
12371241
1250
Mongol conquest of Persia
12531324
1258
Life of Marco Polo
12641279
12641294
12711295
12791368
12871288
12911328
1295
Mongol conquest of southern China
14th-17th
century
13041369
13041374
13121337
13241325
1330s
13361405
13371453
1345
1347
Creation of Mongol artillery unit
Life of St. Thomas Aquinas
Reign of Sundiata
Mongol conquest Russia
Inca settlement near Cuzco
Mongol capture of Baghdad
Reign of Khubilai Khan
Marco Polo’s trip to China
Yuan dynasty
Rabban Sauma’s embassy to Europe
John of Montecorvino’s mission to
China
Conversion of Ilkhan Ghazan to
Islam
Kingdom of Kongo
Life of Ibn Battuta
Life of Francesco Petrarca
Reign of Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage of Mecca
First outbreaks of bubonic plague in
China
Like of Tamerlane
Hundred Years’ War
Foundation of Tenochtitlan by the
Mexica
Arrival of bubonic plague in the
Mediterranean basin
13681644
1400
14051433
14281440
14381471
14401469
1453
14661536
1488
1492
14971498
15021520
1519
Ming dynasty
Emergence of the five Iroquois
nations
Zheng He’s expeditions in the Indian
Ocean
Reign of the Aztec rule Itzcoatl
Reign of Incan ruler Pachacuti
Reign of the Aztec ruler
Motecuzoma I
Ottoman capture of Constantinople
Life of Desiderius Erasmus of
Rotterdam
Bartolomeu Dias’s voyage around
Africa
Christopher Columbus’s first voyage
to the western hemisphere
Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India
Reign of Aztec ruler Motecuzoma II
Arrival of Spanish conquerors in
Mexico