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| 1148 |
| | | Louis VII and Conrad III do grave harm to the Latin Kingdom by a feeble attack that merely alienates the previously friendly city of Damascus | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | In feudal France and Germany Charlemagne is by now venerated as a saint | |
|  | Reliquary head of Charlemagne
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The city of Angkor and the great temple of Angkor Wat are created by the Khmer dynasty in Cambodia | |
|  | Angkor Wat
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The Aztecs begin to move south from their original home, which they call Aztlan, somewhere in northern Mexico | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The Medici move into Florence from their country home in the Mugello valley | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | After centuries of raiding the northern part of Sri Lanka, the Tamils establish a settled Hindu presence in the island | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | The biblical kings and queens in the west porch of Chartres cathedral are a striking early example of Gothic sculpture | |
|  | Chartres Cathedral, figures round north door
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| c. 1150 |
| | | Zen Buddhism reaches Japan from China and appeals greatly to the new samurai class | |
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| c. 1150 |
| | | German merchants begin trading along the coasts of Latvia and Estonia, a region to which they give the name Livonia | |
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| 1150 |
| | | The merging of Catalonia with Aragon, by marriage, creates a power in northern Spain of comparable strength to Castile | |
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