3/20/2024 0 Comments Europe 0 ad mapEuropeĪnother great state in decline is the Roman empire. By this date, however, the Gupta state is in decline. This is the Gupta empire, and this period is widely seen as one of the high points of Classical Indian civilization. Indian history has witnessed the rise of the greatest empire since the Mauryan empire, in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. Despite setbacks, this stimulates continuing technological and economic progress, and prepares the ground for the coming of the modern world. In South-East Asia, Hinduism, Buddhism and then Islam mould the new societies developing there.Īll this arises from – and contributes to – old boundaries becoming more fluid, and links between regions becoming more intense. In India, a three-way contest between Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam plays out and in China and East Asia, Buddhism and Confucianism interact with each other. In each of the major civilizations, religion or ideology plays a more dominant role than in the past: Europe becomes “Christendom”, and goes to war against “the world of Islam”, now ruling the Middle East and North Africa. Now we enter a period where the connections between different regions and civilizations expand and deepen, as do conflicts. The “universal” empires which marked the latter phases of the Ancient World ( Roman, Parthian/ Persian, Mauryan/ Gupta, Han) consolidated the achievements of the previous centuries, and spread them beyond their original core areas. The Medieval epoch (roughly 500 to 1500) is a time of building on the achievements of the Ancient World, but also of moving societies in new directions, preparing the way for the modern world. Apart from being a convenient demarcation to help us moderns make sense of the past, does this actually mean anything? Perhaps it does, in the Eastern Hemisphere at least. This period in world history is seeing the “Ancient World” giving way to the “Medieval World”. Note: Much of the information in this map was cross-checked with Regnal Chronologies by Bruce Gordon.World history in 500 CE - the end of the ancient world * British Isles & Ireland (Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Romano-Celts, etc.) are derived from: Maps of “ West Europe“, “ East Europe“, and “ North Europe” in 500 AD” Note: User:Bogomolov.PL has discovered possible discrepancies in my north European borders, compared to the Euratlas maps, due to the differences in the geographical layout of the maps. * European borders are mostly derived from a combination of:
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