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3 days ago · The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of several nomadic tribes in the Mongol heartland under the leadership of Temüjin, known by the more famous title of Genghis Khan (c. 1162 – 1227), whom a council proclaimed as the ruler of all Mongols in 1206.
3 days ago · He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
4 days ago · Children’s Crusade, popular religious movement in Europe during the summer of 1212 in which thousands of young people took Crusading vows and set out to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims. Lasting only from May to September, the Children’s Crusade lacked official sanction and ended in failure; none.
3 days ago · Marco Polo (/ ˈ m ɑːr k oʊ ˈ p oʊ l oʊ / ⓘ, Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo], Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ⓘ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
May 26, 2024 · Spanning approximately 1000 years from the 5th to the 15th century, the medieval period saw the formation of European kingdoms, the rise of the Catholic Church, the ravages of the Black Death, and the beginnings of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
Jun 1, 2024 · After the emergence of modern gunpowder artillery in the 15th century, the trebuchet began to lose its relevance. One of the last historical uses of a large-scale trebuchet in warfare was by Hernán Cortés against the Aztecs during the attack on Tenochtitlán in 1521.
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5 days ago · Between 1156 and 1206 there were at least sixteen such levies yielding in all about £3,500—no small charge on the working capital of traders and craftsmen. (fn. 7) Twelfth-century York, then, was a community in which the king had a financial stake and which possessed its own court, the portmoot.
