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Bauer, S. Wise.
The history of the medieval world: from the conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade / Susan Wise Bauer.1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-393-05975-5
1. Middle Ages. 2. Civilization, Medieval. I. Title.
D117.B34 2010
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Contents
The Roman empire, 312330
China, 313402
India, 319415
The Roman empire, the Persian empire, eastern Africa, and Arabia, 325361
The Roman empire and the Persian empire, 361364
The Roman empire, the islands of Britain, and the Germanic territories, 364376
The kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, 371412
The Roman empire, 378382
The Roman empire, the islands of Britain, and the Persian empire, 383392
The Roman empire, 392396
The western Roman empire and the eastern Roman empire, 396410
The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 408431
The western Roman empire and the Germanic territories, 410418
India, 415480
China, 420464
The western Roman empire, the eastern Roman empire, the Germanic territories, the lands of the Huns, Hispania, and North Africa, 423450
The western Roman empire, the eastern Roman empire, the Germanic territories, and the lands of the Huns, 450455
The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 451454
The islands of Britain, 451470
The western Roman empire and the Germanic territories, 454476
The eastern Roman empire and Italy, 457493
The eastern Roman empire and the Persian empire, 471518
China and the kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, 471527
China, 479534
The kingdoms of the Franks, the Visigoths, the Vandals, the Ostrogoths, and the British, 481531
India and the southeastern islands of Sumatra and Java, 497535
Mesoamerica, c. 500600
Eastern Africa, Arabia, the Persian empire, and the Byzantine empire, 510529
The Persian empire, the Byzantine empire, North Africa, and Italy, 532544
The kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Yamato Japan, 536602
China and Goguryeo, 546612
India, 543620
Italy, the kingdom of the Visigoths, the eastern Roman empire, the Persian empire, and Arabia, 551579
The kingdom of the Franks, 558656
Italy and the islands of Britain, 572604
The eastern Roman empire, the Persian empire, and various kingdoms of Slavs, Bulgars, Avars, and Khazars, 589632
Arabia, 590622
China, Japan, the Turkish Khaghanates, and the kingdoms of Tibet, Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla, 622676
Arabia, 622642
India and Sri Lanka, 640684
Arabia, 643661
Italy, the Byzantine empire, the First Bulgarian Empire, and the empire of the Umayyad caliphs, 643702
Japan, 661714
China, the kingdom of Tibet, and the Eastern Turkish Khaghanate, 683712
The Byzantine empire, the Umayyad caliphate, the kingdoms of the Khazars, Bulgarians, and Visigoths, and the lands of the Franks, 705732
The Umayyad caliphate and India, 712780
The Umayyad caliphate, the Byzantine empire, and Italy, 718741
The Umayyad caliphate, the kingdom of the Khazars, and al-Andalus, 724763
Italy, the kingdom of the Franks, the lands of the Saxons, and al-Andalus, 737778
China, the nomadic north, and the kingdoms of Tibet, Nanzhao, Balhae, and Unified Silla, 751779
The Byzantine and Abbasid empires, the First Bulgarian Empire, Italy, and the kingdom of the Franks, 775802
The Byzantine and Abbasid empires, the First Bulgarian Empire, and the kingdom of the Franks, 786814
Silla and Japan, 790872
China and Silla, 806918
The Abbasid empire, 809833
The kingdoms of the Franks, the Byzantine empire, al-Andalus, and the lands of the Rus, 813862
India and the southeastern islands of Sumatra and Java, 814900
The Byzantine empire, the kingdom of Louis the German, Moravia, and Bulgaria, 856886
The Abbasid empire and North Africa, 861909
The islands of Britain, 865878
Italy and the kingdoms of the Franks, 875899
Japan, 884940
The Byzantine and Bulgarian empires, 886927
Italy and Western Francia, 902911
Eastern Francia and Bohemia, 907935
India and Sri Lanka, 907997
Al-Andalus, the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates, and the dynasties to the east of Baghdad, 912945
Goryeo and China, 918979
The Scandinavian kingdoms and the islands of Britain, 9241002
The Byzantine empire, Bulgaria, and the lands of the Rus, 944988
Germany, Italy, and Western Francia, 950996
India, Sri Lanka, Srivijaya, and the dynasties east of Baghdad, 9631044
The Byzantine, Abbasid, and Fatimid empires, Bulgaria, and the Rus, 9761025
China, 9791033
Greenland and the Americas, 9851050
Germany, Italy, Hungary, and the Byzantine empire, 10021059
England, Scotland, the Scandinavian kingdoms, Hungary, and Normandy, 10141042
England, Norway, and Normandy, 10421066
Spain and North Africa, 10161108
The Byzantine empire and the lands of the Turks, 10251071
China, Goryeo, and the peoples to the north and west, 10321172
Germany, Western Francia, and Italy, 10601076
The Byzantine empire, Italy, Germany, and the lands of the Turks, 10711095
The Byzantine empire and the lands of the Turks, 10951099
Spain and Jerusalem, 11181129