High & Late Medieval (c. 1000 – 1400)
The age of the great cathedrals — and far more. Gothic vaults climbed across Europe while Frederick II built his enigmatic octagon at Castel del Monte and Venice dressed its Doge’s Palace in pink and white stone. In northern Iran a brick tower rose over a king’s tomb; in India, Konark became a stone chariot for the sun; on a Pacific reef, Nan Madol’s builders stacked basalt into a city. Trade, pilgrimage and war carried ideas farther than ever before.
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