1287| 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. | | 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. | | 1287 | Dai Viet, Burma, Pagan [Mongol conquests (1206–1405)] | The army of Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor of China, is repelled during its attempted invasion of Dai Viet (modern northern Vietnam), but then invades Burma (now Myanmar) and destroys the kingdom of Pagan. The fall of Pagan allows the emergence of several principalities of the Thais, who have recently been moving southwards into Burma and Cambodia, while Burma itself is divided into three states. |
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