Kilwa pot sherds
AD 900-1400 · Resource
Broken ceramic sherds - local earthenware mixed with Chinese celadon and Islamic glazed ware - from the Swahili trading city of Kilwa Kisiwani. Physical proof of medieval Indian Ocean trade.
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Around 1150
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Zhu Xi's Four Books canon (1190)
- Third Crusade (1189)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat (1100)
- Reign of Philip II Augustus of France (1180)
- Chartres Cathedral built (1194)