Genghis Khan at Bukhara
'I am the punishment of God,' the conqueror tells Bukhara
In February 1220 Genghis Khan emerged unexpectedly from the Kyzylkum desert and Bukhara opened its gates, though the citadel held out for about two weeks. The historian Juvayni says the khan told the townsfolk that had they not sinned greatly, God would not have sent a punishment like him.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — 18 years earlier
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — 16 years earlier
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa — 8 years earlier
- 1215 Magna Carta — 5 years earlier
- 1231 Papal Inquisition established — 11 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — 3 years later
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — 17 years later
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — 20 years later
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Genghis Khan (aged 58)
- Kublai Khan (aged 5)
- Philip II Augustus (aged 55)
- Francis of Assisi (aged 38)
- Frederick II (aged 26)
- Rumi (aged 13)
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) (aged 6)
- Sundiata Keita (aged 3)
- Rudolf I (aged 2)
- Fibonacci (aged 50)