The Post-Classical and Medieval World

The medieval centuries worldwide, roughly 700 to 1400 CE: the interconnected world of the Islamic Golden Age, the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages in Europe, and the parallel golden ages of Tang and Song China, Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa, and the Mali and Songhai empires in West Africa. Belongs here: any era whose defining dates fall in this window, regardless of region. Does not belong here: the earlier Late Antique bridge centuries, grouped under The Late Antique World, or the age of transoceanic contact and its Renaissance-era transformations that follow, grouped under The Early Modern World.