What was a significant event in the 13th century?

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Answer 1

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The 13th century? You can choose from the following signifcant events:

The Crusades - French knights fought Turks in Mansourah, Syria, CE 1250.

Marco Polo - Marco Polo's visit to Kublai-Khan's summer palace, in Shandu, China, c. 1275 CE.

Inqusition - In an effort to destroy the sect of Albigensianism, the Bishop Jacques Fournier - the future Pope Benedict XII - organised an inquisition in his diocese of Pamiers in the Comte de Foix. c 1300 CE.

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Answer 2

"Snowth" is right for western history. 1264-65, before Simon de Montfort was killed in battle, was when parliament really became established in England. This would lead to constitutional monarchy and eventually to representative governments such as we have in the USA. For world history on the whole a huge event from the 1200s is the rise of the Mongol empire. Look at Kublai Khan and his grand daddy Genghis Khan. BUT - I'd bet your teacher is looking for the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 as a single "event" of momentous significance to those of us in the western world.

Answer 3

Ottoman Empire, dynastic state centered in what is now Turkey, founded in the late 13th century and dismantled in the early 20th century.

Answer 4

King John of England accepted (was forced into accepting) the Magna Carta in 1215. That began to lay the groundwork for constitutional rule.

Answer 5

I hope you mean the 1200s. Um lemme see. Nothing really important happened. Few Crusades. Few poxes here and there. Political dissolution of the Byzantine Empire. Transition of knowledge from Islamic Spain to Europe etc

Answer 6

SImon de Montfort was a pretty cool character around that time, he led a revolt against the king, Henry III. Check this out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort%2C_6th_Earl_of_Leicester

Answer 7

Take your pick..............

1199 — Pope Innocent III writes to Kaloyan, inviting him to unite the Bulgarian Church with the Roman Catholic Church.

1204 — Fourth Crusade sacks Byzantine Constantinople and creates the Latin Empire.

1205 — Battle of Adrianople (1205): Tsar Kaloyan with his army crushed the (otherwise unbeaten) Fourth Crusade's knights and the soldiers of Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople who was attacking Bulgarian lands with the goal to conquer them.

1206 — Mongols united under Temüjin, who is proclaimed "Genghis Khan".

1212 — The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in Iberia sees the beginning of a rapid Christian reconquest of the southern half of the Iberian peninsula, with the defeat of Moorish forces.

1215 — King John of England forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede.

1227 — Genghis Khan dies during the prolonged siege of the Western Xia Dynasty capital (located in northwestern China), while the Tangut Western Xia Dynasty falls soon after.

1234 — the Jin Dynasty of northeastern China is conquered by the forces of the Mongol ruler Ögedei Khan.

1238 — The Thai Kingdom of Sukhothai is established, with Theravada Buddhism as the state religion. Later in the century it vassalises significant parts of modern Thailand, Laos, Burma, and Malaysia.

1249 — End of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors, when King Afonso III of Portugal reconquers the Algarve.

1250-1275 — the Arab or Persian born Muslim Kuwabara (Chinese: Pu Shou-geng) was appointed by the Song Dynasty Chinese government as the Commissioner of Merchant Shipping for Quanzhou. He published a detailed monograph of the shipping industry and maritime economy of China's seaports during his tenure there.

1258 — Baghdad (Iraq), seat of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate, is besieged and burnt to the ground by the forces of the Mongol commander Hulagu Khan. The last Abbasid Caliph Al-Musta'sim is executed by means of trampling horses.

1259 — the Mongol ruler Möngke Khan is killed in battle by a Chinese cannon blast at Fishing Town, Chongqing, located in southwestern China.

1260 — the Mongols are defeated by the Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut.

1270 — Restoration of Solomonic dynasty in Ethiopia, deposing the Zagwe dynasty. Portrait of the Chinese Zen Buddhist Wuzhun Shifan, painted in 1238 AD, Song Dynasty.1279, the Battle of Yamen marks the fall of the Chinese Song Dynasty and the rise of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty led by Khublai Khan.

1282 — Aragon acquires Sicily, after the Sicilian Vespers.

1284 — Peterhouse, Cambridge founded by Hugo de Balsham, the Bishop of Ely.

1291 — The Swiss Confederation is formed by Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.