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1207| 1100–1532 | South America [administration] | The Inca empire dominates the Andes region of South America. Its population numbers as many as 12 million. Incan society is based on a strict hierarchy, with an emperor who rules with absolute power. Their religion is based on sun-worship, and they are skilled builders who create a system of roads and irrigation. | | 1163–1220 | France [churches and temples] | The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France is constructed. | | c. 1200–c. 1230 | South America [political events] | Manco Capac founds the Inca state in the Cuzco Valley, Peru. | | 1202–1304 | Flanders [civic and commercial buildings] | The Cloth Hall at Ypres, in Flanders (now part of Belgium), one of the finest Gothic secular buildings of the late Middle Ages, is built. It is destroyed in 1915. | | 1207 | Southern Song Empire, Jin Empire, China [political events] | Han T'o-chou, the Chinese Southern Song emperor, is killed by the Jin when attempting to reconquer northern China. | | 1 January 1207 | Holy Roman Empire, Germany, England [political events] | Philip, Duke of Swabia and ‘king of the Romans’ (king of Germany), takes the city of Cologne, so achieving a dominant position in Germany; his rival king, Otto IV, flees through Denmark to England. |
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