High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Culture
1234
Ogedei builds Karakorum as imperial capital
1234
On the wind-scoured steppe of the Orkhon Valley, the Great Khan ordered construction of the Mongol empire's first fixed capital. Karakorum rose with the labor of Chinese architects and Persian craftsmen, its crowning glory a famous silver tree fountain that poured kumiss from one spout and wine from another for visiting diplomats. Nestorian churches, Buddhist temples, and a mosque stood side by side within its walls.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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