Post Classical – 800 – 1500 Feudal Era Middle Ages to High Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, 300 – 1000 o The Western Church o Western Europe Revives, 1000 – 1200 The Crusades, 1095 – 1204 o Political and Military Transformations Rural Growth and Crisis o Cities and regrowth of trade The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200 o Tang and Song Empires o New Kingdoms in East Asia Korea Japan and Vietnam New Islamic Empires The Rise of the Mongols, 1200 – 1260 o Plague o Mongols and Islam, 1260 – 1500 o Regional Responses in Western Eurasia – Russia and Anatolia (Byzantine) o Mongol Domination in China, 1271 – 1368 Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200 – 900 o The Post-Classic Period in Mesoamerica, 900 – 1500 Urban Revival Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance