La Habra High School
Math History Timeline

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Middle Ages
500 - 1400 A.D.
Non-mathematical history

	500- 1000	Dark Ages
Phil/Rel	late 5th cent. A.D.	Zen Buddhism
Phil/Rel	570?–632	Muhammad
Phil/Rel	7th cent.	Islam
Ruler	742?–814	Charlemagne
Explorer	10th cent	Eric the Red
	1000- 1350	High Middle Ages
Ruler	fl. c.1040–80	Godiva, Lady
Ruler	1157–99	Richard I
Ruler	1167?–1227	Genghis Khan
Ruler	1215–94	Kublai Khan
Phil/Rel	1225–74	Saint Thomas Aquinas, greatest figure of scholasticism, conjunction of faith and reason.
Phil/Rel	13th cent. B.C.	Moses
Explorer	1254?–1324?	Polo, Marco
Literature	1265–1321	Dante Alighieri
Ruler	1282–1918	Hapsburg house of Austria
Literature	c.1340–1400	Chaucer, Geoffrey
	1350-1500	Late Middle Ages
Ruler	1360-1737	Medici family of Florence
Art	1386–1466	Donatello David
Art	1390–1441	Jan van Eyck self portrait
Literature	1397–1468	Gutenberg, Johann

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