Years 1150

11th century | 12th century | 13th century

Years 1130 | Years 1140 | Years 1150 | Years 1160 | Years 1170

1150 | 1151 | 1152 | 1153 | 1154 | 1155 | 1156 | 1157 | 1158 | 1159

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the Chichimèques, nomads come from the north of the Mexico, combined with other people invade the central valley before plundering Tula. Civilization Toltèque of Tula crumbles (1170).
the culture Anasazi dominates the south-west of North America, determining the general cultural facies of the Pueblos; the most famous sites are in Mesa Verde.

In the middle of the 12th century, an Yoruba king of the would have sent his/her son, prince Evéka, at the Edo, very primitive people living in the south of Ifé. Evéka is essential on Edo and founds the town of Bénin.
the town of Benign is surrounded by enormous ground fortifications, with uneven of 17 m between the bottom of the ditch and the top of the embankment.

In India, construction of the temple of Vimala, with the mount Âbû, in the honor of the first Tîthamkara, in the middle of the 12th century.

the conquest almohade pushes Juifs and Andalusian Mozarabes to take refuge near the Christian kings who use them in the administration. Alphonse VII of Castille station to Calatrava, on its border on the Guadiana, its almojarife (intendant) Jeuda Ben Erza, of a Jewish big family of Cordoue taken refuge to Tolède. De Calatrava, Jeuda accommodates the Jews persecuted by the Almohades, and directs them towards the septentrional communities (Tolède, Segovia, Burgos, Saragossa, Tudela…). They make stock quickly by keeping their Andalusian patronyms (Ben Abbas, Al-Resident of Fez, Al-Constantini, Ben Menir, Ben Shaprut, Ben Shuaib…).

From 1150, in France, the economic transformations upset the hierarchy of fortunes, weaken the seigniory lady of the manor with the profit of the large lords and especially of the kings.

the schools of Paris override those of Laon, Chartres and Melun. They attract main and foreign pupils.

Introduction of the religion Cathare by returned lords of the second crusade. It is spread initially in Germany and in the North of France before being established in Italy (Lombardy, Toscane, Marches), in Catalogne and Languedoc (Albigensian). In Languedoc, the heretics receive the support of the local lords and benefit from the moral inferiority of the southernmost clergy. They are essential thanks to the action of perfect, alive of alms, which spread the instruction and the medical care, and grace also to the tolerance of the count Raymond VI of Toulouse. They organize in the Lauragais (Fanjeaux, Montreal, Laurac) a true Church with six évêchés supported by the local aristocracy and the people.
the Cathare doctrines is attached to the Eastern Manichéisme, opposing two basic principles, the good and the evil, and the world of the matter to that of the spirit. The mass of the followers is subjected to no particular obligation; The perfect ones, on the other hand, carry out a very austere life, spreading the doctrines and reconciling the sinners with their last moments by the consolamentum .

Golden age of the Icelandic literature (fine 12th century-beginning 14th century). The clerks, trained in the continental schools (Westphalia, Paris), report books of the Occident and the use of the cursive writing, which they adapt to the language norroise. They copy many manuscripts in the convents, and the taste of the reading is spread in the elites. They consign on parchment the pagan poetic texts (great poems of Edda, poems scaldic), of the historical writings (laws, genealogies, chronologies), of literary works being based on the oral tradition (sagas).

Voyages of the Séfarade Benjamin de Tudèle, author of a Book of voyages , one of the most important sources of information of second half of the 12th century. It leaves the north of the Spain for the Provence, Genoa, Rome, the south of the Italy, the Greece, Constantinople, Antioche, Sidon, Tyr, Jerusalem, Tibériade, Damas and Baghdad where it is received at the court of the Caliph. He visits the talmudic academies of Babylonia, crosses the Mésopotamie and the Perse before turning over to Spain by Cairo and Alexandria.
Thierry of Chartres.

Generalization of the crossbow in Europe. Invention of the Precision balance (catapults of seat with counterweight).
Diffusion of the manufacture of the Paper in Europe starting from the Muslim world.
International repute of the Foires of Champagne (Troyes, Provins, Bar-sur-Aube, Lagny) where are exchanged Flemish cloths against the products of the East (silk trade, spices, luxury items), leathers and the furs (southern of France, Germany). Use of letters of fair, promissory notes and contracts of exchange.
the Gothic architecture, born in Ile-de-France, is spread in the rest of Europe.

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