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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Entertainment: Indian dictionary and romantic novel written
  Neumes – musical note groupings – invented
  Wooden sculpture created in nunnery and oil paintings in shrine in Nara (India)
• Medicine: First surgical operations in India
• Religion: Revelations of Mohammed written and form the Koran by Caliph Othman - 114 sutras
  Buddhist monk Bhartrihari writes 100 proverbs
  Buddhist monk Chi-kai starts Amida Buddhism in contrast to mystic Buddhism
  Wandering bishop Emmeram founds Ratisbon monastery
• Technology: Weaving develops in Byzantine empire
  Chinese artists use lamp-black ink for rubbings – start of print making
  Caliphs introduce first news service

Africa

• Egypt: Muslims conquer Egypt

Americas

• North America: Hopewell people established along northern Mississippi
  Teotihuacán in Mexico thrives or falls

Asia

• China: Tomb of Chinese emperor T'ai Tsung created
  City of Xian reaches 1 million
• India: Indian dictionary and romantic novel written
• Sumatra: Hindu empire in Sumatra

Europe

• Eastern Europe: Croats and Serbs occupy Bosnia
  Khazars conquer Great Bulgarian Empire in South Russia
• England: Building of St. Martin's church in St. Canterbury
• Northern Europe: Greater power of Frisian Kingdom (Germanic/North Sea – Dutch)