Ibn Rushd
1126 CE – 1198 CE · 72 years
The Córdoban jurist and physician who wrote more commentaries on Aristotle than any scholar in history — and whose work was so indispensable to medieval Europe that they called him simply The Commentator, as though no other existed.
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Nan Madol
1180 CE – still standing
Polity
Srivijaya Empire
650 CE – 1400 CETrade route
Silk Road Southern Branch
200 BCE – 1450 CEConflict
Srivijaya Maritime Wars
600 CE – 1288 CE
Figure · Rhineland
Hildegard of Bingen
1098 CE – 1179 CE
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Charyn Canyon
3000 BCE – still standingPolity
Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers
Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CEConflict
Kara-Khitan (Western Liao) Conquests
1124 CE – 1218 CEDated moments inside this span
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Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- AverroesSailko · CC BY 3.0
- Nan MadolNOAA · Public domain
- Srivijaya EmpireGunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Hildegard of BingenMiniature from the Rupertsberg Codex of Liber Scivias. · Public domain
- Charyn CanyonBgag · CC0
