History
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General
Population: 390 Million*
- Entertainment: Rabbi Maimonides publishes "Fuide of the Perplexed"
- Religion: Teutonic Order of Knights – military society (Hosspitalers) set up in Germany to defend Christian lands in Palestine and Syria
- Deaths: Frederick Barbarossa the Holy Roman Emperor drowns, French poet Chretien De Troyes
Africa
- Ethiopia: Lalibela emperor of Ethiopia to 1225
Americas
- North America: End of first flat-topped mound culture of Mississippi valleys
Asia
- This decade Mongol leader Temujin (Genghis Khan) conquers China and founds Yuan Dynasty
Europe
- Richard of GBR and Philip of FRA set out together on Crusade
- Holy Roman Empire: End of reign of HRE Frederick Barbarossa as he drowns in River Saleph in Cilicia on the way to the Crusades – son Henry VI rules
- Scotland: Reported remains of Arthur and Guinevere found in Glastonbury Scotland
Middle East
- Palestine: Acre besieged by Franks
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