Hildegard of Bingen
1098 CE – 1179 CE · 81 years
The Benedictine abbess who received visions from the age of three, composed the largest surviving body of medieval music, wrote encyclopedias of medicine and natural science, preached across Germany in her sixties, and corresponded with popes, emperors, and saints — told in her own words.
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Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Karkhanids
Attested 1100 CETrade route
Silk Road Southern Branch
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict
Kara-Khitan (Western Liao) Conquests
1124 CE – 1218 CE
Figure · Khorasan / Seljuk Empire
Al-Ghazali
1058 CE – 1111 CE
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Lake Issyk-Kul
3000 BCE – still standing
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Srivijaya Empire
650 CE – 1400 CEConflict
Srivijaya Maritime Wars
600 CE – 1288 CEDated moments inside this span
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Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Hildegard of BingenMiniature from the Rupertsberg Codex of Liber Scivias. · Public domain
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
- Al-GhazaliScanned Photo from a book entitled Sayr mulhimah : min al-Sharq wa-al-Gharb, first transl… · Public domain
- Issyk-KulҚайырқан Әсем · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Srivijaya EmpireGunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0
