The Venetian Empire (In Our Time)
1200 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable rise of Venice in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike other Italian cities of the early medieval period, Venice had not been settled during the Roman Empire.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1200
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)