The World in 1500 Africa | Middle East | East Asia | Europe Africa Things to Know: Sahara Desert Leakey Family Verdun, France slav Kingdom of Axum Kush Ghana Mali Swahili Great Zimbabwe Zimbabwe-Mosambique   Middle East Things to Know: Judaism Christianity Islam Hittite Empire Babylonian Empire Assyrian Empire Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire   East Asia Things to Know: Manchuria Mongolia Chinese Turkestan Tibet Beijing Confucius longevity Mandate of Heaven Zhou Dynasty (771-256 BC) Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC) Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) Sui Dynasty (598-618) Tang Dynasty (618-907) Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties (960-1279) Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty (1279-1368) Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) Qing (Manchus) Dynasty (1644-1912)   Europe Things to Know: Respublica Christiana Greek/Orthodox Protestantism Anabaptism tribal organization feudal relationships recriprocal rights dynastic state city-states Ermalao Barbaro Holy Roman Empire liberum veto Copernicus (1473-1543) Louis XIV (the Sun King) TOP © 1998 Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton HOMEPAGE URL: http://history.binghamton.edu/hist130/hist130.htm This page last updated: 8/19/1998 Send Comments to: Prof. Jean Quataert