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Sep 10, 2014 · A profound study of the relation between State and Politics during the most stable period of Muslim rule in India. Khaliq Ahmad Nizami has brought together information from all the contemporary works of history and more especially the non-traditional sources of history like the collections of sayings and anecdotes of mystics and others.
Medieval India refers to a long period of post-classical history of the Indian subcontinent between the "ancient period" and "modern period". It is usually regarded as running approximately from the breakup of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century CE to the start of the early modern period in 1526 with the start of the Mughal Empire, although ...
Oct 6, 2023 · 13th Century Christian History. The Albigensian Crusade was launched by the Catholic Church against the Cathars, a heretical Christian sect in southern France. It aimed to suppress heresy and extend papal authority. The Fourth Lateran Council began in 1215 during the 12th century and continued into the early 13th century.
According to the German historian of astronomy Ernst Zinner, sundials were developed during the 13th century with scales that showed equal hours. The first based on polar time appeared in Germany c. 1400; an alternative theory proposes that a Damascus sundial measuring in polar time can be dated to 1372.
Medieval India can be viewed as covering the centuries between the end of the last of the major ancient states, the Gupta empire, and the rise of the huge Mughal empire, in the 16th century. The period saw huge changes in the subcontinent’s civilization. The great trends it witnessed included the development of modern Hinduism, the decline of ...
Through the subsequent efforts of the Dominican inquisitors, Catharism was virtually eliminated in Languedoc within a century. Crusades - Holy Wars, Jerusalem, Europe: The Albigensian Crusade took place to remove the Catharism heresy from southern France. The saying “Kill them all. God will know his own.” was allegedly made by the papal ...
The Thai kingdom: 13th–17th century. Seated Buddha, gilt bronze sculpture from Sukhothai, Thailand, 14th–early 15th century; in the Honolulu Academy of Arts. During most of its history, Thailand was divided into two fairly distinct regions, a northern and a southern, the capital of the north at Chiang Mai, the capital of the south at Ayutthaya.
