Battle of Kirina and rise of Mali
As the griots tell it, Sundiata's victory births an empire
The Malinke leader Sundiata Keita defeated Sumanguru Kante, king of Sosso. The victory founded the Mali Empire, heir to West Africa's gold trade; Sundiata's story lives on in the epic of the griots.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1215 Magna Carta — 20 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 12 years earlier
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 2 years later
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 5 years later
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 23 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 16 years later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 22 years later
Oceania
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 20)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 14)
- Frederick II (aged 41)
- Rumi (aged 28)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 21)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 18)
- Rudolf I (aged 17)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 10)
- Fibonacci (aged 65)
- Yuri II of Vladimir (aged 46)