The First 10 Thousand Years CE 00,000s CE
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Imperial Rome to 325 Christendom to 800 Holy Roman Empire

629-632 Muhammad's conquest of the Arabian peninsula
632–661 Rashidun caliphate - Libya to S. Turkmenistan and E Afghanistan
661–750 Umayyad caliphate - Spain to Pakistan
750 (Baghdad) - 1261 (Cairo) Abbasid Caliphate - Libya to Persia
Western Han 202 BC – 9 CE
Eastern Han 25–220 CE
Three Kingdoms period 220–280 CE.
Cao Wei 220 - 226
Western Jin 266–316
Eastern Jin 317–420
Liu Song 420 - 479 Southern Dyn. and Northern Wei (420-589)
Southern Qi 479 - 502
Liang dynasty 502–557
Chen dynasty 557–589
Sui dynasty 581–618
Tang dynasty 618–690, 705–907
Later Liang (Five Dynasties) 907–923
Later Tang 923–937
Later Jin (Five Dynasties) 936–947
Later Han (Five Dynasties) 947–951
Later Zhou 951–960
Northern Song 960–1127
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c.950 to c.1250 Medieval Warm Period

1157 Seljuk Turks take the Abbasid Caliphate's power base in Baghdad
909–1171 Fatimids - expand from Tunisia to Egypt
1250 Mamluks (non-Arab freed slave soldiers) overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty
c. 1299–1922 Ottoman Empire:
Kingdoms to Nations
c. 1300-1850 The Little Ice Age lowers temperature by 2°C reducing crop yields.
Colonialism, Nation States,
United Nations, World Trade Organization
Northern Song 960–1127
Southern Song 1127–1279
Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Yuan dynasty 1271–1368
Ming dynasty 1368–1644
Qing dynasty 1644–1912
Republic of China (1912–1949)
People's Republic of China (1949–1976)
Chinese economic reform 1976 - Present
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