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During the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols relied heavily on espionage in their conquests in Asia and Europe. Feudal Japan often used shinobi to gather intelligence. A significant milestone was the establishment of an effective intelligence service under King David IV of Georgia at the beginning of the 12th century or possibly even earlier.
The Tiepolo conspiracy or Tiepolo-Querini conspiracy was an attempt to overthrow the government of the Republic of Venice under Doge Pietro Gradenigo.Headed by the disaffected patricians Bajamonte Tiepolo, Marco Querini [], and Badoero Badoer but backed by a sizeable number of other patricians, churchmen, and commoners, the conspiracy resulted in a coup attempt on 15 June 1310, in which three ...
During the 12th and 13th century in Europe there was a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic growth. In less than a century there were more inventions developed and applied usefully than in the previous thousand years of human history all over the globe.
Pages in category "13th-century conflicts" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. ... Mongol invasion of Europe; Mongol invasion of Persia and ...
Years of the 13th century in Europe (107 C) / 13th-century disestablishments in Europe (19 C, 12 P) 13th-century establishments in Europe (40 C, 27 P) 0–9.
The Beguines (/ b eɪ ˈ ɡ iː n z, ˈ b ɛ ɡ iː n z /) and the Beghards (/ ˈ b ɛ ɡ ər d z, b ə ˈ ɡ ɑːr d z /) were Christian lay religious orders that were active in Western Europe, particularly in the Low Countries, in the 13th–16th centuries. Their members lived in semi-monastic communities but did not take formal religious vows.
The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century. Some sources have narrowed the date to 1212.
In Northern Europe, new technological innovations such as the heavy plough and the three-field system were not as effective in clearing new fields for harvest as they were in the Mediterranean because the north had poor, clay-like soil. [16] Food shortages and rapidly inflating prices were a fact of life for as much as a century before the plague.