Snapshots of Medieval History Table of Contents

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• Chapter 1: Justinian Builds a Golden Age and Gets the Plague (Byzantine Empire)

• Chapter 2: Clovis Becomes Catholic (Franks)

• Chapter 3: The Sui Rise and Fall (China/Sui)

• Chapter 4: Axum Controls Trade (Axum/Ethiopia)

• Chapter 5: Muhammad Declares Allah’s Word (Islam)

• Chapter 6: The Caliphs Expand North, South, East, and West (Islam)

• Chapter 7: The Pope Crowns an Emperor (Charlemagne/Holy Roman Empire)

• Chapter 8: Black Powder Booms in China (China/Tang)

• Chapter 9: An Empress Rules China (China/Tang)

• Chapter 10: The Vikings Raid, Trade, and Settle (Vikings)

• Chapter 11: The Rus’ Rise in the East (Russia)

• Chapter 12: Wisdom Blooms in Baghdad (Islam)

• Chapter 13: Murasaki Writes a Novel (Japan)

• Chapter 14: Queen Seondeok Creates a Golden Age (Korea)

• Chapter 15: Christianity Splits East and West (Europe/Great Schism)

• Chapter 16: Ghana Trades Gold for Salt (Ghana)

• Chapter 17: England Gets Invaded for the Last Time (England/William the Conqueror)

• Chapter 18: Ethiopia Carves a Church Out of a Mountain (Ethiopia)

• Chapter 19: The Christians Go Crusading (Crusades)

• Chapter 20: The Khmer Build a Giant Temple (Khmer/Cambodia)

• Chapter 21: The Iroquois Make a Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)

• Chapter 22: Four Inventions That Shape the World (China/Song)

• Chapter 23: Genghis Conquers (Almost) Everyone (Mongols/Genghis Khan)

• Chapter 24: A Slave Becomes Sultan (India/Delhi Sultanate)

• Chapter 25: Cities Thrive in North America (Ancestral Puebloans & Mississippians)

• Chapter 26: Mansa Musa’s Gold Dazzles the World (Mali)

• Chapter 27: East Africa Builds Wonders (Great Zimbabwe and Kilwa)

• Chapter 28: Death Sweeps Through Europe (Plague/Hundred Years War)

• Chapter 29: Tea, Ships, and Palaces: China Rises Again (China/Ming)

• Chapter 30: Sulieman Builds on Rome’s Ruins (Ottoman Empire)

• Chapter 31: Europe is Reborn (Renaissance)

• Chapter 32: The Aztecs Build a Floating City (Aztecs)

• Chapter 33: Pachacuti Turns Cusco Into An Empire (Inca)

• Chapter 34: Europe Goes and Finds the Rest of the World (Age of Discovery)

• Chapter 35: Spain Claims the New World (Colonization)

• Chapter 36: Europe is Ripped in Half (Again) (Reformation)