Aiko Tanaka
3 public timelines · member since Aug 2026
War & ConflictFeudal Japan and the Samurai, 1185-1877
How a warrior class rose to rule Japan under successive shogunates, and how the Meiji government dismantled the samurai's privileges in the 1870s.
- Kamakura and Muromachi
- Warring States to Tokugawa
- Bakumatsu and Meiji
War & ConflictThe Mongol Empire, from Genghis Khan to the Yuan's Fall
How Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes, how his successors built the largest contiguous empire in history, and how it split into four states before the Yuan dynasty fell in 1368.
- Genghis Khan
- Conquests Abroad
- Succession and Fragmentation
Exploration & MigrationThe Silk Road, from Han Envoys to Sea Routes
A network of trade routes linking China, Central Asia and the West from about the second century BCE to the mid-15th century, carrying goods, travellers, religions and ideas.
- Han Origins
- Travellers and Trade
- Religions, Ideas and Decline