The moai of Easter Island
Nearly a thousand stone ancestors gaze inland
By various estimates, between the 13th and 16th centuries the people of Rapa Nui carved nearly a thousand moai statues from volcanic tuff at the Rano Raraku quarry. They were set on stone ahu platforms with their backs to the sea, facing the villages their deified ancestors protected. The largest erected statue, Paro, is about 10 m tall; the unfinished "El Gigante" in the quarry is about 21 m.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 13 years earlier
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 10 years earlier
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 8 years earlier
Middle East
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad — 8 years later
Asia
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana — 1 year later
- 1257 Samalas eruption — 7 years later
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty — 21 years later
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Kublai Khan (aged 35)
- Alexander Nevsky (aged 29)
- Frederick II (aged 56)
- Rumi (aged 43)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 36)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 33)
- Rudolf I (aged 32)
- Thomas Aquinas (aged 25)
- Edward I Longshanks (aged 11)
- Fibonacci (aged 80)