Early 1175:
Italy: Altanxie's forces retake Ravenna. The fighting is once again very, very bloody.
Austria: Andronikos Komnenos is imprisoned for gross incompetence after losing the Battle of Lebring. More troops are transfered from the east to the west. Leo has for all intents and purposes declared war against all of Latin Christendom.
Kura: Slaves, ivory and gold are imported from Kura in exchange for steel, textiles and salt. The local Igbo and Yoruba peoples prosper under this arrangement.
Somalia: Several Mogadishu clans form a cartel to manage the large animal populations in the plains to the south. They can charge the Chinese much more money if they limit the supply. The clans also ruthlessly police the savannas against poachers, paying the local Masai people a bounty for every poacher they kill.
Mid 1175:
Vinland: The Greenland Norse establish a second settlement in Vinland on the island of Manahata (1).
Lake Huron: On the recommendation of some of the Norse, the Ojibwa people begin to search for iron ore in their territories.
Erling Skakke, leader of the Markland Norse notices that the Ojibwa have very few domesticated animals. Only problem is that the Markland Norse are persona non grata back in Europe and thus cannot return.
Vinland is highly insular and rather out of the way. Not many people, even in Norway, know that there is a land to the west.
Transoxiana: Bukhara falls to the Khitan army.
Late 1175:
Italy: Modena surrenders. Altanxie decides to spare the city's residents.
Constantinople: Leo calls a council of clerics to hammer out any doctrinal differences between the Latin and Greek churches.