Name: Date: Hour: 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