1400's (Balance Point)

Asia
1403 The capitol of China is moved from Nanjing to Beijing

1405-1433 Chinese explorer Zheng He is granted funds for an exploritory voyage in India and East Africa. He sails for many years, mapping the areas better than any other explorer to date.

1423 The Golden Horde starts to disintegrate, as roits between different ethic groups occur and the government is unable to control it. Emergancy measures aer put in place, but nothing works.

1435 The Golden Horde breaks up into the Great Horde, composed of Khazak and Mongol ethnic groups, the Siberia Khanate, composed of Russian and Siberian ethnic groups, and the Khanate of Khazan, comprised of Caspian ethnic groups. All three are led by a Khan, who has unlimate authority.

1439 The Kazan Khanate is destroyed by the Great Horde in a quick four month war. The Great Horde now controls all the area between the Graet Khanate and the Caspain Sea, gainign important fishing and trading ports on the Caspian sea.

1441 Sejong the Great institues an uprising in Korea against the crumbling Subutai Khanate. The city of Seoul is quickly liberated, boosting Korean morale and willingness to fight. The great battle of Inchon occurs that October, with a untrained Korean force capturing the city.

1442 Sejong the Great frees all of the Korean penninsula, with minimal causualties and destroyed property. He is immedialty elected leader of Korea. He begins to institude new freedoms and begins to transform Korea into an advanced and prosporus country.

1449 The Ming dynasty invades Manchuria, under control of the Subutai Khanate, and captures it easily. The Subutai Khanate is now only a name on a map, having no real power and absolutly no control ver the territory it owns. The Graet Khan of the Subutai Khanate, Shen Khan, is just a figurehead set up by the Great Khanate.

1450- A short war between the Great Khanate and the Ming Dynasty occurs, the war of Subutain Liberation. As a half-hearted Great Khan force under leadership of General Sh-taik tries to free Manchuria from Ming occupation. The whole escapade is resolutely unsucssesful, as Ming forces, bolstered by their recet victory, smash the Mongo forces.

1451 Sejong the Great created the Korean written language, the Hangul.

1458 The last northern reminants of the Subutai Khanate are absorbed into the Great Khanate

1462 The Ming dynasty begins to moderize their fleet. Also, rumers are heard of a land far to the east beyond the great Pacific Ocean. Chinese explorers begin to debate voyaging to the new land.

1467 The Warring States Period in Japan begins and the Black Sheep Turkomon are defeated in battle in the Middle East

1469 Guru Nanek Dev is born, revered by many in India

1480 The Chagatia Khanate invades the Great Horde, advancing quickly

1482 The Chagatai Khanate is driven back from the Horde and loses the Battle of the Runners, a conflict with fighting groups of horsemen over a large, open feild

1485 The Sangama dynasty ends in India

1494 Hawaii is discovered by Chinese explorers. It is claimed for China despite reseitance from the natives

1498 A expedition by the Chinese is funded to explore beyond Hawaii

Europe
1412 Poland-Luthuania declares, with the popes consent, a second Northern Crusade against the Curonians. The KU and Spain immediatly send troops to invade.

1415 The battle of Agincourt is a desicive English victory

1418 The Crusade faces Novogorod joining the Curonians. The crusade begins to slow down, with most southern areas conquered but desicive Curonian victories holding them up

1420 The Crusade ends with the creation of Luthuania in the southern Baltic states, but gained emnity between Curonia and the Crusaders

1421 The Grand Dutchy of Muscovy is founded

1429 Joan of Arc turns the tide of the Hundred Years War by lifting the Seige of Orleans

1444 The Albanian league is formed and declares war on the Ottomon empire

1453 Constantinople falls, ending the Byzanite Empire

1455 War of the Roses begins

1469 Spain is reunited by a royal marrage

1471 Poland declares a third Northern Crusade, but only a few countries join

1478 The Third Crusade ends with the Curonians gaining the southern Baltic states back and the disentigration of Poland-Liutuania

1483 Muscovy, now large and powerful, declares war on Novgorod. Novgorod asks its ally, Curonias to help in the fight

1487 Muscovy conqers Novgorod but land is lost to Curonia

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers North America

1494 The Italian Wars begin

1497-1499 Vasco de Gama voyages to India and back