Statistics for A Museum of World History: 1200-1399 (Level 4: No hints)

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1200 Lin’an (Hangzhou) has a population of one million, making it the largest city in the world.	0%
1204 4th Crusade. Christian Crusaders sack Christian Constantinople.	0%
1220 Temujin ("Genghis Khan")'s army compells Bukhara and Samarkand (in modern Uzbekistan) to surrender.	0%
1248 Jalal al-Din ("Rumi") loses his closest friend. Grief stirs him to write poetry.	0%
1250 Chartres Cathedral is finished, 54 years after construction begins.	0%
1258 Hulagu Khan’s soldiers destroy Baghdad after the Abbasid Caliph surrenders on February 10.	0%
1276 Kublai Khan’s soldiers capture Lin’an and destroy the Southern Song Dynasty.	0%
1297 Giotto paints frescos in the San Francesco Basilica in Assisi.	0%
1308 Dante begins writing "La Commedia."	0%
1345 Notre Dame Cathedral is finished 182 years after construction begins in Paris.	0%
1347 The Black Death ravages Europe.	0%
1352 Bocaccio finishes "The Decameron."	0%
1354 Ibn Battuta returns to Morocco after traveling halfway around the world and back.	0%
1374 Petrarca dies in 1374, leaving behind hundreds of unpublished sonnets dedicated to Laura.	0%
1383 Timur launches a war of conquest in central Asia.	0%