Whoops. I did mean Medieval, though... Please push my two referenced dates back a century each. Was it still the Renaissance period outside of Europe?
No. The Renaissance started in Italy and spread northward and northwest over the next century or so, and then it was the Renaissance throughout Europe, with the possible exception of Ireland (which was always on its own timetable, due to its relative remoteness and lack of strategic importance--for instance, during the part of the Middle Ages generally known as the Dark Ages, so between the fall of Rome and about 1100, Ireland wasn't having Dark Ages; read "How the Irish Saved Civilization" for details on that). And the definite exception of Iceland, which was pretty much medieval-but-democratic (they had an elected parliament 1000 years ago!) until it suddenly modernized in the 20th century.
Also remember that western and eastern Europe developed to some extent separately because of the religious difference--Catholicism vs. Orthodox Christianity (e.g. the kind of Christianity still practiced in Greece, Russia, etc.). They banded together to fight off their mutual foe, the Muslim hordes who spent the late middle ages trying to attack Europe (with some success, e.g. permanently conquering Constantinople and temporarily conquering southern Spain). But still, the two halves of Europe developed differently and could be said to have had different ages--I don't know that there was ever a Renaissance or Enlightenment in Russia, for example.
When we talk about the ancient world, the middle ages, the dark ages, the Renaissance, or the Enlightenment, we're talking about Europe and areas under its dominion (e.g. Turkey). America basically went straight from "middle ages with a Protestant twist" to the Enlightenment, with no Renaissance in between. The Islamic world had a sort of Enlightenment in roughly the 11th-14th centuries, then plunged into its own version of the dark ages and, IMHO, has largely stayed there with a few exceptions (the Sufis...). And Asia, likewise, had its own timetable; and since Asia is huge, the timetable varies depending on which part of Asia you're looking at. What part are you interested in? Have you tried googling "timeline Asian history" or "timeline Chinese history" (or whatever nation), to get an overview?
