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1342| 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. | | c. 1340–c. 1370 | Wales [poetry] | Welsh writer Dafydd ap Gwilym writes a body of poems – mostly love lyrics and nature poems – which are the highpoint of Welsh Medieval literature. | | c. 1342 | England [births and deaths] | Geoffrey Chaucer, the principal English writer before Shakespeare, whose best-known work is The Canterbury Tales, born (–1400). | | 7 May 1342 | Italy [administration] | The French clergyman Pierre Roger is elected Pope Clement VI. |
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