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General

Population: 226 Million*

• Entertainment: Farces make their first appearance
  Sixth period of Chinese literature begins (until 1900)
  Beginnings of famous Arabian tales "A Thousand and One Nights"
  Jewish book of creation "Sepher Yetzirah"
  Period of the Oseberg art
  Islamic ornamentation (arabesques) develops from late Greek and Byzantine elements
  Jaina rock temple of Ellora, India
  Arabian musical instruments introduced into Europe
  Chinese landscapes developed by Ching Hao
  Octaves and musical elements develop
  Buddhist temples of Nara become focal points of Japanese art
• Food: Earliest record of coffee
• Medicine: Arab physician Rhases mentions plague, consumption, smallpox, and rabies
  Founding of the medical school of Salerno
• Religion: Death of Pope John IX – Pope Benedict IV appointed
  Pilgrimages established as part of Hindu faith
• Technology: Vikings develop art of shipbuilding, discover Greenland
  Paper manufacturing at Cairo
  Lost-wax method of gold casting introduced to Mesoamerica from S America
  Chinese invent gunpowder
• Deaths: Donald I of Scotland, Pope John IX, Abu Tabari the Arab scholar and compiler of Koran commentaries, Monk Tutilo of St. Gallen (artist)

Africa

• Central: Origins of Sudanese kingdoms in Africa
  Great Zimbabwe kingdom begins
• East: End of Axumite Kingdom of Ethiopia
• West: Kasar House (Housaland) - kingdom of Daura in the Niger region of W Africa prospers

Americas

• North America: Mayan power in N Mexico begins to fade
  Pueblo settlements in N America - second Pueblo period
  Farming spreads to Great Plains
  Toltecs begin to build power at Tula, Mexico
  Hohokam culture in AZ and NM
  Hohokam culture begins irrigating in N America
  Naymlap founds Sicán state in S America
  Mayas relinquish settlements in lowlands of Mexico and emigrate to Yucatan peninsula - Mayan Chichén Itzá becomes center place
  End of classical Mayan and start of post-classical

Asia

• General: Start of Guge Empire in East to 1650
• Cambodia: Anghor Wat (Khmer kingdom) built
• China: Chinese landscapes developed by Ching Hao
• India: Jaina rock temple of Ellora, India
  Begin Khmer civilization in India

Europe

• General: Magyars (Muslims) from central Asia invade Europe
  Castles become seats of European nobility
  Feudalism established
• Bohemia: Founding of Bohemian fortress of Wrotizlav (Breslau)
  Czechs assert authority over all Bohemian tribes
• Bulgaria: Bulgars accept Eastern Orthodox religion
• England: Orkney and Shetland taken over by Vikings
  England divided into shires
  Famine
• Ireland: End of golden age of Irish art and literature
• Scotland: Death of Donald I
  Constantine III becomes king of Scotland
• Spanish States: Beginning of Christian reconquest of Spain under Alfonso III the Great of Castile

Middle East

• General: Thousand and One Nights written in Arabia
• Byzantine Empire: Constantinople remains the first city of the world

Pacific

• First settlers on Cook Islands – ancestors of Maori reach S Island New Zealand
  Polynesians settle Aotearoa (N Zealand)