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1189 CE

This year falls in the High and Late Middle Ages (c. 1000–1500 CE). Trade grows across Eurasia, and in the thirteenth century the Mongols build the largest connected land empire in history. The Black Death kills a large share of the people of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from the 1340s, and the era closes with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the first European voyages to the Americas.

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Country · GuernseyGuernsey1204–Guernsey is a Crown Dependency in the English Channel, off the coast of Normandy. The Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes Alderney, Sark, and Herm, has belonged to the English Crown since the Norman period and stayed with the Crown when mainland Normandy was lost in 1204. It is not part of the United Kingdom, and finance is its largest industry.

Country · JerseyJersey1204–Jersey is a Crown Dependency and the largest of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Normandy. It stayed with the English Crown when mainland Normandy was lost in 1204, and it still governs itself through the States Assembly. It is not part of the United Kingdom. German forces occupied it from 1940 to 1945, and finance is now its largest industry.