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Figure Florence thinker

Dante Alighieri

1265 CE – 1321 CE · 56 years

The Florentine poet who wrote the greatest work of medieval literature — a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise that mapped the entire moral universe of the Western world, and did it in exile, condemned to death by the city he loved.

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Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Polity

Srivijaya Empire

650 CE – 1400 CE

Conflict

Srivijaya Maritime Wars

600 CE – 1288 CE

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Thomas Aquinas

1225 CE – 1274 CE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Chagatai Khanate

1225 CE – 1687 CE

Conflict

Mongol Conquests

1206 CE – 1368 CE

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1274 CE Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 CE Mevlana Museum 1280 CE Wairau Bar 1280 CE Wieliczka Salt Mine 1282 CE War of the Sicilian Vespers 1293 CE Wars of Majapahit

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