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Göktürk Khaganate Wars

552 CE – 744 CE

The Turkic peoples built the largest contiguous land empire before the Mongols, spanning from Manchuria to the Black Sea, before fracturing into rival eastern and western khaganates.

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Standing in 552 CE

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Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Khoiasan Polity · Africa 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Serengeti National Park Landmark · Africa 3000 BCE – still standing Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Shark Bay Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing

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533 CE Vandalic War 535 CE Gothic War (Italian Reconquest) 537 CE Hagia Sophia 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery 552 CE Göktürk Wars