12th century

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Overview: History - Epochs - Turnings - Centuries BC - Centuries AD Millenniums: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Centuries: 11th century - 12th century - 13th century Decades: 1100s - 1110s - 1120s - 1130s - 1140s - 1150s - 1160s 1170s - 1180s - 1190s

This was the period where the final split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church occurred.

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[edit] Events

• 1100 - China reaches a population of 100 million.
• 1144 - Edessa falls to invading armies, stimulates Second Crusade.
• 1185 - Rise of military dictatorship and warrior culture through Kamakura dynasty in Japan.
• 1187 - European forces defeated by Muslim armies at Battle of Hattin; Jerusalem recaptured by Muslims.
• 1189 - Third Crusade launched in response to European losses in Palestine.
• 1200s - Mongolian steppe faces a subsistence crisis due to a drop in the mean annual temperature, which reduced the supply of grass for grazing animals; this crisis forced the nomadic peoples into a migration that resulted in one of the largest empires of all time.