dipity

Unit 2

Created by iraindance on Dec 2, 2010

Last updated: 12/04/10 at 05:04 PM

• 1/2 of India's Population Has Converted to Islam
  1500

  Causes: notions of equality of souls, personal and emotional connection to Allah Effects: Guru Kabir, decline of Hindu population

• Birth of Vijayanagar Kingdom
  1336

  Causes: collapse of Chola Kingdom, Harihara and Bukka Events: domination of southern India, modern Carnatic music

• Schism Between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church
  1054

  Causes: iconoclasm, patriarch and pop mutually excommunicating Effects: religious division of empire, political instability

• Establishment of Song Dynasty
  960 AD

  Causes: Song Taizu, political chaos Effects: civil service examination system, weakened army

• Birth of Chola Kingdom
  850 AD

  Causes: political division, spared from invasions that North India suffered Effects: marginal control of much of southern India, sea trade

• Srivijaya Kingdom's Culture Develops
  670 AD

  Causes: Indian thought, missionaries, merchants Effects: domination of sea trade, copying Indian thought

• Birth of Umayyad Dynasty
  661 AD

  Causes: enmity between Shuni and Shia groups, assassination of fourth caliph Ali Effects: Arab military aristocracy, tension among different ethnic and religious groups

• Muhammed and Followers Conquer Mecca
  630 AD

  Causes: iconoclasm, the hijra Effects: holy pilgrimages to Mecca, Mecca's becoming an Islamic city

• The Hijra
  622 AD

  Causes: conflict with Mecca's wealthy classes, warning of assassination plot Effects: Medina's problems solved, Medina as a holy city

• Rise of Tang Dynasty
  618 AD

  Causes: disintegration of Sui dynasty, high taxes and forced labor Effects: Golden Age of Post-Classical China, equal-field system

• Collapse of Gupta Dynasty
  600 AD

  Causes: political instability, invasion by White Huns Effects: early Puranas, King Harsha

• Formation of Sui Dynasty
  589 AD

  Causes: Yang Jian, regional kingdoms contesting for power Effects: centralized state, Grand Canal

• Life and Message of Muhammad
  570 AD to 632 AD

  Causes: divine vision, parents married and had children Effects: Islam, political unification of Arabia and beyond

• Justinian I's Reign
  527 AD to 565 AD

  Causes: death of Emperor Anastasius, natural succession of the throne Effects: Justiniana Prima, economic recession

• Rise of Franks as a Central Medieval Power
  481 AD

  Causes: Clovis, political chaos Effects: Clovis's conversion to Christianity, farmland wiped out due to military conquest, starvation

• Fall of Classical Society
  200 AD

  Causes: social and political turmoil, outside military threats Effects: eastern half of known world evolves, western half devolves