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1. Muslims recapture the Holy Land
2. Minamoto family wins a civil war in Japan
3. New European universities founded
4. European churches built in startling new style
5. Angkor Wat completed in Khmer kingdom
6. Shona people build splendid city
7. Anasazi erect immense communal houses
8. Western European philosophers debate ideas of Aristotle

1. Muslims recapture the Holy Land

During the late 1100's, Muslim armies gradually gained back much of the territory in and around the Holy Land that they had lost to Christian forces nearly 100 years earlier. Led by the great warrior Saladin, Muslim forces reconquered Jerusalem in 1187.

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