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Abbasid Caliphate

Third Islamic caliphate (750–1258)

Abbasid revolution

747–750 overthrow of the Umayyad caliphate

Kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam, India

An Lushan rebellion

8th century rebellion in Tang dynasty China

Persianate, Sunni-Muslim Turkoman confederation (1378–1508)

Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Assassination of Uthman

Event leading to Caliph Uthman's assassination

Bagratid Armenia

Armenian state ruled by the Bagratuni dynasty (885–1045)

Bahmani Kingdom

Former Muslim state in Southern India

Ancient kingdom in Asia (698–926)

Battle of Ankara

Battle near Ankara on 20 July 1402, between the Timurid Empire and the Ottoman Sultanate

Battle of Hattin

1187 Saladin victory over the Crusaders

Battle of Karbala

Battle in 680 between Umar ibn Sa'd and Husayn ibn Ali

Battle of Nahavand

Military engagement between the Rashidun Arab Muslim army and the Persian Sasanian army in 642 CE

Battle of Talas

751 battle between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang dynasty

Battle of the Yarmuk

636 CE conflict between the Rashidun Caliphate and Byzantine Empire

Butuan (historical polity)

Indic polity centered on present Mindanao island that existed from late 10th to early 16th century

Iranian dynasty which ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran (934-1062)

Chagatai Khanate

Turco-Mongol khanate

Chalukya dynasty

Classical Indian royal dynasty

Series of coastal states in what is now Vietnam from c. 192 to 1832

Chaulukya dynasty

Indian dynasty that ruled Gujarat from c. 940 to 1244

A dynasty of ancient India

Ancient kingdom located in Indochina

Shan state under Burma and China

Medieval state of India

Crusader states

The four feudal Catholic Christian states created in the Levant by a series of religious wars

Religious wars of the High Middle Ages

900s–1241 Turkic confederation in Central Asia and Europe

Former kingdom, situated roughly in modern Yunnan province, China, from 937 to 1254

Type of steel used in Middle Eastern swordmaking

Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent

Gradual process of replacement of Buddhism in India, ended around the 12th century

Delhi Sultanate

Indian Islamic dynasties based in Delhi (1206–1526)

Culture of the Mon People

Eastern Ganga dynasty

Medieval era Indian royal Hindu dynasty

Eastern Turkic Khaganate

Former empire in the 6th and 7th centuries

First of the religious wars known as the Crusades, from 1096 to 1099

Rashidun-era Muslim civil war (656 to 661)

First Mongol invasion of Burma

Historical conquest

First Turkic Khaganate

552–603 khaganate founded by the Göktürks

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

Period of Chinese history 907–979

1204 Crusade that captured Constantinople rather than Jerusalem

Conflict over the succession to the throne of the Abbasid Caliphate; provincial turmoil continued until the 830s

Powerful family of regents in Japan

Conflict between the Minamoto and Taira clans of feudal Japan (1180-85)

Muslim Persianate dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin

Iranian Dynasty from Ghor

Goguryeo–Sui War

Conflict between Sui dynasty of China and Goguryeo Kingdom of Korea

Goguryeo–Tang War

Tang-Korean war of 7th century

Turkic people in Inner Asia

1242–1502 Turkicized Mongol khanate

Korean dynasty (918–1392)

Period of Japanese history from 794 to 1185

Medieval Dynasty in North Western South Asia (c. 843–1026)

House of Wisdom

Abbasid-era library in Baghdad, modern-day Iraq

Hoysala Kingdom

Kannadiga empire that ruled most of what is now Karnataka, India (10th–14th centuries)

Breakaway khanate of the Mongol Empire

Iranian Intermezzo

Period in history which saw the rise of various Iranian dynasties in the Iranian plateau

Islamic Golden Age

Period of cultural, economic and scientific flourishing of Islamic societies (8th to 14th centuries)

Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

Jurchen-led imperial dynasty of China

Jingkang incident

12 century battle during the Jin–Song Wars

Jin–Song wars

Series of Jurchen military campaigns against the Song Dynasty

Kamakura shogunate

Feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period (1192-1333)

Kara-Khanid Khanate

Javanese kingdom, ca 1042-1222

Kenmu Restoration

Period of Japanese history, 1333–1336

Nomadic people who founded the Liao dynasty in China

Empire in Southeast Asia (802–1431)

Khwarazmian Empire

Medieval Muslim empire (c. 1077–1231)

Kingdom of Georgia

Former kingdom of Georgia in the Caucasus

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 after the First Crusade

Kingdom of Khotan

Iranian Saka Buddhist kingdom (56-1006)

Medieval Turkic nomadic people of Central Asia and Europe

1st–15th-century Malay Hindu-Buddhist kingdom on the Malay Peninsula

Later Three Kingdoms

Period of Korean history (892–936), during which the southern Korean peninsula was fragmented into three states (Taebong, Hubaekje, and Silla), until they were eventually reunified by Goryeo

Khitan imperial dynasty of China (916–1125)

Ancient kingdom in modern China

Vietnamese royal family which ruled from 1009 to 1225

Maitraka dynasty

Ruled Gujarat in western India from c. 475 to 767

Malacca Sultanate

Historical state in Malaysia

Slave-soldiers and enslaved mercenaries in the Muslim world

Mataram kingdom

Former Javanese country

Middle kingdoms of India

Political entities in the Indian subcontinent from 3rd century BC - 13th century AD

Mongol campaigns in Central Asia

Aspect of history

Mongol conquest of Anatolia

Mongol conquests

Mongol conquest of China

13th-century military campaigns

Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire

1219–1221 conquest of lower Central Asia and Iran by the Mongol Empire

Mongol invasions of India

History of Mongols with India

Mongol invasions of Japan

Failed invasions of 1274 and 1281

Mongol invasions of Korea

1231–1271 Mongol Yuan conquests

Mongol invasions of the Levant

Mongol invasions of the Levant (1260-1323)

Mongol invasions of Vietnam

13th-century attempts by the Mongol Empire and Yuan-dynasty China to invade Vietnam

Muromachi period

Period of Japanese history from 1336-1573, under the rule of the Ashikaga shogunate

Muslim conquest of Persia

7th-century invasion of Iran by the Arab Rashidun Caliphate

Muslim conquest of the Levant

7th-century conquest by the Rashidun Caliphate

Muslim conquest of Transoxiana

7th and 8th-century conquests in Asia

Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent

12th to 16th-century Muslim conquests across the Indian subcontinent

Type of covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan

Former empire in East Asia

A kingdom mentioned in Buddhist literature

Turkish empire (ca. 1299–1922)

Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)

Imperial Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the Levant

Ottoman–Persian Wars

Series of wars through the 16th to 19th centuries

Polity in Myanmar (846–1297)

Early medieval empire in the Indian subcontinent

Pallava dynasty

275–897 Indian dynasty

Paramara dynasty

10th-14th century dynasty of central India

Pratihara dynasty

Indian dynasty that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-8th century to the 11th century

Pushyabhuti dynasty

Post Gupta period

Historical sinicized empire in Central Asia

Turkoman confederation

Sevener Ismaili Shia group

Rashidun Caliphate

First Islamic caliphate (632–661)

Rashtrakuta Empire

Early medieval Indian dynasty (mid-6th to 10th century)

Saffarid dynasty

861–1002 Eastern Iranian dynasty

Iranian empire ruled by the Samanids

Umayyad-era Muslim civil war (680–692)

Second Turkic Khaganate

Khaganate founded by the Gokturks

Oghuz Turkic dynasty

Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim empire (1037–1194)

Hindu dynasty of Bengal region, ruled 10th to 12th century

Seuna (Yadava) dynasty

Indian dynasty (c. 1187–1317)

Military dictators of Japan 1185–1868

Siege of Acre (1189–1191)

1189-1191 siege

Siege of Acre (1291)

Siege of Antioch

1097–98 invasion in the First Crusade

Siege of Baghdad

Hulagu's investment, capture, and sacking of Abbasid Baghdad in 1258

Siege of Jerusalem (1099)

Christian conquest of the First Crusade

Siege of Jerusalem (1187)

Conquest of Jerusalem by the Ayyubids

Silk Road transmission of Buddhism

Spread of Buddhism through the Silk Road

Korean kingdom (57 BCE – 935 CE)

Chinese imperial dynasty from 960 to 1279

Old kingdom in Sumatra

Dynasty that ruled over China from 581 to 618

Sukhothai Kingdom

Kingdom in north central Thailand (13th-15th century)

Sultanate of Rum

Turkish state in central Anatolia from 1077 to 1308

Hindu kingdom on the island of Java from 669 to 1579

Historical country based in today's Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra

Imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907

1189–1192 attempted re-conquest of the Holy Land

Empire of the 7th to 9th centuries AD

Persianate Turco-Mongol empire (1370–1507)

Imperial Vietnamese dynasty (1225–1400)

Tripartite Struggle

785–816 conflict in India

Turco-Persian tradition

Distinctive culture in Central Asia

Turkic Central Asian Kingdom

Turkic migration

Historical expansion of the Turkic tribes and Turkic languages into Central Asia, Eastern Europe and West Asia

Umayyad Caliphate

Second Islamic caliphate (661–750)

Umayyad campaigns in India

Military campaigns of the Arab Umayyad Caliphate in India

Uyghur Khaganate

Vijayanagara Empire

Empire in southern India (1336–1646)

Western Chalukya Empire

10th–12th century empire in western Deccan, South India

Western Ganga dynasty

Ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India

Western Turkic Khaganate

Former Khaganate

Dynasty in northwest China (1038–1227)

Mongol-led dynasty of China (1271–1368)

Ancient culture and kingdom of western and northwestern Tibet