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 46 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 Khorasan earthquake Great Seljuq Empire, now Iran [death toll 60,000 ] in the year of 1101 AD Almohad Caliphate: Located in Morocco, the caliphate was a Moorish and Berber Muslim empire 1121 AD to 1269 AD Ethiopian empire 1137 AD to 1974 AD Aleppo earthquake Zengid dynasty (Syria) [death toll 230,000 ] 11 October 1138 Ghurid dynasty Afghanistan 1148 AD to 1215 AD Angevin Empire England France 1154 AD to 1242 AD Aleppo earthquake Zengid dynasty (Syria) [death toll 80,000 ] 1169 AD Ayyubid empire or dynasty Middle East 1171 AD to 1341 AD 12th Century AD Italy produce silk From [https://imagesofvenice.com]: Silk production had already spread from China to Persia, India and Syria and came to Italy in the 11th century; initially to the cities of Catanzaro, then Lucca and on to Venice, ...