+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TIME-TABLE OF THE WORLD: A.D. 500 to 1000 | | | | Teutonic Races Dominate the West. Rise of Mohammed: extension of | | Mohammedan Rule from Cordova to Kabul. Western Empire Revived | | by Charlemagne and again by Otto | +-----+--------------------------+-----------------------------+-----+ |A.D. | The East and Africa | Europe |A.D. | | 500 | | Franks predominant on Rhine | 500 | | | | and in Gaul. | | | | | Justinian emperor at | | | | | Constantinople. | | | | Overthrow of the African | Roman Law codified in the | | | | Vandal kingdom by | Institutes. | | | | Belisarius, general of | Overthrow of Gothic kingdom | | | | Justinian. | in Italy by Belisarius. | | | | | Advance of Saxons (South) | | | | | and Angles (East) in | | | | | England. | | | 550 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 550 | | | Buddhism introduced in | Lombard conquest of North | | | | Japan. | Italy. | | | | | Spread of Celtic | | | | | Christianity in Britain by| | | | | St. Columba. | | | | Advance of Persia against| Pontificate of Gregory the | | | | the Eastern Empire. | Great. | | | | | Latin Christianity | | | | | introduced into Kent by | | | | | St. Augustine, 597. | | | 600 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+ 600 | | | Overthrow of Persia by | ENGLAND: Supremacy of | | | | Emperor Heraclius. | Northumbria. | | | | MOHAMMED. The Hegira | | | | | (622). | ITALY: North under Lombard | | | | | dominion; South attached | | | | Conquest of Egypt and | to the Eastern Empire. | | | | Syria by the Caliphs | | | | | Abu-bekr and Omar. | Avar dominion in Hungary. | | | | Conquest of Persia, and | | | | | extension of Caliphate | Slavonic settlement in | |