The first half of the thirteenth century is characterized by the sudden rise of the greatest empire ever.
The Mongols of Genghis Khan overwhelm entire civilizations, but their military supremacy will give rise to an ephemeral world, one that a family of horse breeders will understand well, suspended between tradition and the necessary integration with superior cultures defeated in battle.
In Europe, the central part of the century is dominated by the intellectual figure of Thomas Aquinas and by that marriage of philosophy, theology, and society that sees the rise of the Dominicans and Franciscans, but also the emergence of the Inquisition. In this case, the main emblem is the events that followed the social regulation of Occitania and France after the Albigensian Crusade.
Finally, the century's discontinuity will come from Italy where, on the ashes of Frederick II's imperial concept, a Swabian family creates a connection between the Sicilian Vespers and the great cultural movement of the Stilnovo, destined to completely change the cultural landscape.