History
1208
General
Population: 403 Million*
- Religion: St. Francis of Assisi founds Franciscan Friars
Innocent III lays England under interdict
Crusade against Albigensians – a heretical Cathar sect in France until 1213
End of Fourth Crusade with 5000 dead
- Deaths: Philip of Swabia
Asia
- Ghengis Khan conquers Turkestan
Europe
- England: Pope Innocent III places England under interdict - all church services except baptisms and funerals banned
- German States: Philip of Swabia the German king murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach
Middle East
- Turkey: Theodore Lascaris founds empire of Nicaea
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