Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Timeline: 1225

1225 BCE

Institutions - The Exodus (Hebrews migrate from Egypt to Palestine)
-Birth of Helen (Helen of Troy) to King Tyndareus of Sparta

Technology - The Great Temple of Ramses II built photo:

-Temple of Seti I built in Egypt

Governance - Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II dies
-Trojan War and the fall of Troy
-Reign of Suppiluliumas II in the United Kingdom of the Hitties
-Hyllus, first known king of the Illyrians died
-Battle of Nihriya between the Hittites and Assyrians
-Pharaoh Mernepah fights off a Libyan invasion

Commerce - The Illyrians traded with their neighbors (Macedonians, Grecians and Thracians)
-According to the bible, the Sidonians carried out extensive commerce

1225 CE

Institutions - Pope Honorious III threatens to excommunicate Holy Roman Emperor Friederich II if he doesn't begin his crusade
-The poet Guillaume de Lorris writes Roman de la Rose
-The song "Sumer is icumen in" is sung in rounds in England
-Death of Japanese poet and historian, Jien

Technology - Cotton textiles begin to be manufactured in Spain
-Cathedral of Saint Pierre begins construction in Beauvais, France photo:

-Fibonacci uses his Diophantine equations to determine that more irrational numbers exist besides what the Greek geometers discovered

Governance - The Teutonic Knights were expelled from Transylvania
-Third amended version of the Magna Carta issued
-England regains territory previously taken by the French
-The Sultan of Delhi repels a Mongol attack
-An-Nasir, the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad dies

Commerce - Indians start using camels while traveling, increasing trade

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