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Song Dynasty China
Great Schism divides Eastern Orthodox from Roman Catholic Christians
The Crusades bring Western Europeans to the Middle East
Mongol Golden Horde destroys Kiev, exacts tribute from Novgorod
Mongols sack Baghdad, destroy the Abbasid Caliphate
Marco Polo travels Across Asia
Mongol Yuan Dynasty rule in China
Aztec dominate Mesoamerica
Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage from Mali to Mecca
Ibn Battuta travels throughout Asia and Africa
Black Death! Plague strikes Europe after passing through Asia, Middle East
Ming Dynasty China
Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator creates school for navigators
Ming China shuts down voyages of Zheng He
Guttenberg develops the mechanical printing press to Europe
Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks; renamed Istanbul
Portuguese captain Barthlomeu Dias sails around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope
Columbus lands in the Americas
Ferdinand and Isabella complete the Reconquest driving Muslims and Jews out of Spain
Vasco Da Gama brings Portugal into the Indian Ocean
Portuguese seize control of Indian Ocean ports in East Africa, India
Cabral claims Brazil for Portugual
Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses; Reformation begins
Cortes begins conquest of the Aztec in Mexico
Magellan's crew circumnavigates the world
Pizarro begins conquest of the Inca in Peru
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