Part 47 Article: Timeline My Blog Title: The untold the retold Click on PDF to download from Part 1 COLUMN Q 960 AD to 1279 AD Song Dynasty China 18 Emperors Duration: 319 Years Renaissance Map 1201 AD to 1900 AD From [AI overview]: Key features included detailed coastlines, standardized symbols, and the integration of the New World. From [Wikipedia]: The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm . World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The Hellenistic period was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean to the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt . Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate size of the Earth allowed cartographers to estimate the extent of their geographical knowledge, and to indicate parts of the planet known to exist but not yet explored as terra incognita . From [AI overview]: Claudius Ptolemy ...
Part 42 Article: Timeline My Blog Title: The untold the retold Click on PDF to download from Part 1 COLUMN Q 960 AD to 1279 AD Song Dynasty China 18 Emperors Duration: 319 Years • Toltec empire Mesoamerica 496 AD to 1122 AD • Wari empire Peru 500 AD to 1100 AD • Gurjara Pratihara Dynasty India 600 AD to 1136 AD • Arab–Byzantine Wars Middle East North Africa Southern Europe [death toll 130,000÷3 ] 629 AD to 1050 AD • First Bulgarian empire: Balkans Southeastern Europe 680 AD to 1018 AD • Srivijaya empire: Malay Archipelago Sumatra, Indonesia 683 AD to 1293 AD • Khazar Khaganate empire: North Caucasus 700 AD to 1000 AD • Kanem empire: northeast of Lake Chad in modern-day Chad Africa 700 AD to 1387 AD • Reconquista Iberian Peninsula (Christian Muslim War) [death toll 7,000,000÷5 ] 711 AD to 1492 AD • Pala empire: Bengal East India located between the Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal 750 AD to 1174 AD • Rashtrakuta empi...