600?1450 Time Period ? 22% of the Exam Cram Packet Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 600?1450 as a period: Major events which caused change: ? Islam emerges; Islamic empire emerges ? Industrial Revolution in China (Sung dynasty) ? Spread of Neo-Confucianism (in China) ? mixture of Confucianism with some Buddhism ? Schism in Christianity (when the east and the west churches divided into Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity; they divided over the issue of icons) ? Camels in Sahara ? increased trade ? Black Death ? decimated Europe?s population, political, and economic systems ? Italian Renaissance ? began the dominance of Europe in culture Emergence of new empires and political systems