Chapter 7 -8.24.08-

Chapter 7, Really Old Stuff Around 600 C.E. to Around 1450. Over this time period the Islam rise, developments happen in Europe and the Byzantine Empire, China, India, Japan, the Americas, and in Africa. Also the rise and fall of the Mongols.
I'll start with important people. Mohammad a leader in the religion Islam. Abu Bakr, one of Mohammad first followers who became caliph, head of state. Charles Martel, a Frankish leader who stopped the Muslim advance in its tracks. Mohammad al-Razi, published a medical encyclopedia. Justinian, reigned from 527 to 565. St. Cyril, an Orthodox Christian, who used the Greek alphabet to make a Slavic alphabet. Vladimir, a Russian prince from Kiev, who converted to Christianity from the the traditional pagan religion.
Major events during this time period was the rise and fall of the Mongols, developments in Europe, Americas, Asia, Africa, and Byzantine Empire. Also these places started to invent things. Islamic world, paper mills (from China), universities, astrolabe and sextant, algebra, (from Greece), chess (from India), Modern soap formula, distilled alcohol, guns and cannons (from China), mechanical pendulum clock, surgical tools. China, gunpowder cannons, paper currency, porcelain, terrace framing, water-powered mills, cotton sails, water clock, magnetic compass, state-run factories.
Women during this time were gaining more rights in some places like in Europe they can inherit land and take oaths of vassalage, in China women had access to dowries and owned businesses .
There was also a lot of trade through out the world in this time period. The Mediterranean Trade between western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic Empire. The Hanseatic League. The Silk Road. The land routes of the Mongols. Trade between China and Japan, between India and Persia. And the Trans-Saharan trade routes between west Africa and the Islamic Empire.
I found that within Europe and the Byzantine Empire was a lot more centralized and organized than the western empire, and both practiced Christianity, though not in the same way.