Editing 14th century (section)

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* Transition from the [[Medieval Warm Period]] to the [[Little Ice Age]].
* [[Crisis of the Late Middle Ages]]
* The poet [[Petrarch]] coins the term [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] to describe the preceding 900 years in [[Europe]], beginning with the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]] in [[476]] through to the renewal embodied in the [[Renaissance]].
* Beginning of the [[Ottoman Empire]], early expansion into the [[Balkans]].
* [[Iwan]] vault, [[Jamé Mosque of Isfahan]], [[Isfahan]], [[Iran]], is built.
* Early 14th century: Kao Ninga paints ''Monk Sewing'' (attributed) in the [[Kamakura period]] ([[Cleveland Museum of Art|Cleveland Museum]] collection).
* An account of [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]]'s life, translated earlier into Greek by [[Saint John of Damascus]] and widely circulated to [[Christianity|Christians]] as the story of [[Barlaam and Josaphat]], became so popular that the two were venerated as [[saints]].<ref>Macdonnel, Arthur Anthony (1900). " Sanskrit Literature and the West.". A History of Sanskrit Literature. New York: D. Appleton and Co. p. 420.</ref>
* [[Singapore]] emerges for the first time as an important fortified city and trading centre.
* [[Islam]] reaches [[Terengganu]], on the [[Malay Peninsula]] as evidence by the [[Terengganu Inscription Stone]].
* The [[Hausa people|Hausa]] found several [[city-state]]s in the south of modern [[Niger]].
* Work begins on the Great Enclosure at [[Great Zimbabwe]], built of non-cemented, dressed stone. Research suggests the city's population to be between less than 10,000 to 18,000 at its peak.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Chirikure, S. |display-authors=etal |year=2017 |title=What was the population of Great Zimbabwe (CE1000 – 1800) |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=12 |issue=6 |page=e0178335 |bibcode=2017PLoSO..1278335C |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0178335 |pmc=5470674 |pmid=28614397 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="contested">{{cite book |last=Kuklick |first=Henrika |title=Colonial situations: essays on the contextualization of ethnographic knowledge |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-299-13124-1 |editor=George W. Stocking |pages=135–170 |chapter=Contested monuments: the politics of archaeology in southern Africa}}</ref>