Part 44 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 • Holy Roman Central Europe 962 AD to 1806 AD From [AI overview]: The key differences between the Roman Empire (Classical), Byzantine Empire (Eastern Medieval), and Holy Roman Empire (Western Medieval) lie in their geographic location, cultural identity, religious structure, and political centralization. The Roman Empire (27 BC) to 476 AD was a centralized, pagan (later Christian), Latin-speaking entity controlling the entire Mediterranean. A pagan is someone who practices a polytheistic or nature-based religion outside of major monotheistic faiths like Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Historically, the term derived from Latin paganus (country dweller) to describe rural people adhering to old traditions. The Byzantine Empire 330–1453 AD was the direct continuation of the Eastern Roman Empir...
Part 43 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 • Norwegian Kingdom Norway 872 AD to 1814 AD • Tondo Kingdom Philippine 900 AD to 1587 AD • Goryeo Dynasty Korea 918 AD to 1392 AD • Buyid empire or dynasty Persia 934 AD to 1055 AD From [Wikipedia]: The Buyids , together with the rise of other Iranian dynasties in the region, represents a period in Iranian history sometimes referred to as the Iranian Intermezzo . From [https://www.iranicaonline.org]: The political background: Since the early days of the Arab conquest of Persia the mountainous regions south of the Caspian Sea proved an awkward obstacle to the expansion of the empire of the caliphs. It was only towards the end of the 3rd and 9th century that the Abbasids succeeded in subduing those almost inaccessible districts, and even then the caliphal rule remained rathe...