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Sumanguru, ruler of the Susu kingdom of Kaniaga (in the southwestern part of presentday Mali), plunders the Ghanian capital of Kumbi.
Motivated by the wish of Pope Innocent III to reunite the Byzantine and Roman Churches and by the long-standing trade disputes between the Venetians and the Byzantines, Latin Christian knights attack Constantinople. Responding to an earlier request for help from Alexius, son of Isaac II Angelus, the Crusaders depose Alexius III and place Isaac and his son on the throne. Alexius IV governs as a puppet of the Crusaders.
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