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Events

Asia

• Mongolian Expansion: conquest of China (1210-1215), the Khârezm (Persian and Central Asia)
• Fifth crusade (1217-1221)

Europe

• 1212 : Battle of Mow Navas de Tolosa: victory of the Spanish kings united against the emirate of Cordoue
• Albigensian Crusade for éradiquer the Catharisme (hard by episodes of 1209 with 1229)
• 1214: Battle of Bouvines, victory of Philippe Auguste over anglo-germano-Flemish

Significant characters

• Gengis Khan

• Frederic Barberousse, king de Germanie in 1211
• the orders beggars are created: Preaching friars (Dominican) and minor Brothers (franciscains) in 1210

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 1212 : completion of the enclosure of Paris, known as of Philippe Auguste

• 1215: Large Charter in England: it guarantees the feudal rights, freedoms of the cities against the arbitrary royal one and institutes the control of the tax by the Great council of the kingdom.
• 1215 : Council of Lateran IV: introduction of the annual Confession
• Universities: creation of that of Paris (1210) and that of Bologna (1219)

Simple: 1210s