🌀 Big Spiral History 🔵 Space 10

Space 10: The High Middle Ages

The Crusades, the Mongols, and Mansa Musa

1000 – 1499 CE

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Space 10: The High Middle Ages

🔵 The Crusades, the Mongols, and Mansa Musa · 1000 – 1499 CE

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🔵 Dot 1 · 1000s CE

1066 William of Normandy invades England, defeats its king, and hands the country’s castles and estates to French-speaking followers, remaking who rules England.

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🔵 Dot 2 · 1100s CE

1147 Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France, journeys to Jerusalem as part of the Second Crusade. Later, as queen of England, she becomes mother to two future kings, one of whom will sign the Magna Carta.

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1187 Saladin retakes Jerusalem but refuses to repeat the Crusaders’ massacre.

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🔵 Dot 3 · 1200s CE

1206 Genghis Khan unites the tribes of Mongolia and leads them across China, Central Asia, Russia, and Eastern Europe, beginning the conquest of the largest land empire the world has ever seen.

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🔵 Dot 4 · 1300s CE

1324 Mansa Musa, king of Mali and perhaps the richest person in history, arrives in Cairo with a caravan so lavish it makes Aladdin’s Prince Ali look modest.

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1348 While a teenager, Ibn Khaldun watches the Black Death take first his teachers, and then his parents.

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🔵 Dot 5 · 1400s CE

1405 Chinese eunuch Zheng He commands a huge fleet of treasure ships across the Indian Ocean.

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1420 After studying ancient ruins, Brunelleschi constructs a vast dome which makes an unmistakable claim: the world of the Greeks and Romans is being reborn.

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1431 Joan of Arc leads the French to repel the English, but is captured and then burned at the stake for claiming that heavenly voices — rather than church authorities — had given her orders.

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1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints his first Bible… only to go bankrupt.

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