| THE SECOND MILLENIA |
| AD 1000 -- AD 2000 |
FROM 1100 A.D. -- 1200 A.D..
Early 1100's
| Hebrew scholar Malmonides analyzes linkages between wealth and charity. |
| Increasing usage of Crossbows in Warfare. |
| The beginning of secular music. |
1100 -- 1150
| The heighth of religious architecture in the Khmer Kingdom in Cambodia is represented by Angkor Wat, the great temple-mausoleum. Covering almost 495 acres, the temple is dominated by five sandstone towers in the shape of lotus buds. |
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1100 -- 1150
| Variations of a game called chunkee --which involves rolling a stone disk along a path while others try to strike it with a spear -- are played throughour much of North America. |
1125
| Troubador music is introduced in France, and the Music Tour is started. (MTV takes a few years more.) |
| Earliest account of a mariner's compass being used. |
1134
| The western facade` of Chartres Cathedral is built. |
1141 -- 1279
| The height of landscape painting in China. (the earliest form of graffiti??) |
1150 -- 1200
| In Southeast Asia, terraced fields are constructed to extend agriculture onto otherwise unusuable hillsides. They are also combined with irrigation networks. |
| The game of Chess reportedly originates in India, and becomes a favorite pasttime of the aristocracy in Europe. |
1150 -- 1500
| The Gothic Style in Architecture and Art is at its heighth. |
1151
| The Toltec Empire ends in Mexico. |
| The first Fire and Plague Insurance was started (in Iceland). |
1153
| Chicken Restaurant, the world's oldest eating dinery, opens in Kai-Feng, China. (Chicken Chow Mein????) |
1155
| A map of western China will become what is the world's oldest printed map. |
| The Carmelite Order is founded. |
1158
| Munich (Germany) becomes the center of the world's salt trade. |
1162
| Genghis Khan, the great Mongol conqueror is born "Temujin" to a petty Mongol chieftain, and rises to become the most powerful man in the world. He dies in 1227. |
| Thomas a Beckett is elected archbishop of Canterbury, is murdered in 1170, and canonized in 1173. |
1163
| Work begins on the Notre Dame Cathedral. |
1173
| First authenticated influenza epidemcs -- did you get your "flu" shot?? |
1174
| The earliest record of horse races in England. |
1180
| Glass windows appear in English private houses. |
| The first windmills with vertical slats appeared in Europe. |
Click Here for a letter from Genghis Khan's Mama to her Sister.
1189
| Richard the Lionhearted is crowned King of England. |
1191
| The Second Era of Mayan Civilization reaches its height in Central America. |
| Tea arrives in Japan from China. |
1193
| Indigo and brazilwood are imported from India to Britain, for dyeing purposes. |
1194
| The erection of the present Chartres Cathedral. |
