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the Anasazi (Arizona) leave their villages established in the valleys or on the loess plates and move their populations towards defensive sites (Pueblo Bonito in the canyon of Chaco).
Pueblo Bonito is prosperous between 950 and 1300. Its population, of 1200 hearts approximately, distributed in the 800 rooms arranged out of four stages, safe from high walls. The canyon counts more than 400 km of roads and passages.

Invasion of the Arab Hilaliens with the the Maghreb.
the Almoravides attack the Empire of Ghana, destroy Aoudaghost then make the conquest of the North Africa.
the town of Tombouctou is founded in North Africa by the Touaregs.

the tradition allots to Baramendena, of the family of the Keita, the foundation of the principality at the origin of the Empire of Mali. Following a catastrophic dryness, which failed to draw up its people against him, it converts with the Islam on the council of a saint marabout almoravide, towards 1050. It goes in pilgrimage to Mecque, receives the name of El Moslemani and takes the title of Sultan, which carries then only five sovereigns in the Muslim world. The inhabitants of the kingdom remain animists.

Prevalence of the Arab counter of Kiloa (Kilwa) on the east coast of Africa under the Dynasty Shirazi, which beats its own currency. The port depends on the export of gold, the ivory, the horns, the skins and the scale of tortoise towards the Arabia and the India; in return, it receives Chinese and Islamic ceramics, glass shots and fabrics.

Great schism of the East
communal Movement in Lombardy, Tuscan Ligurie and (1050-1130).
Pisa settles in Sardinia.
Victoire of the Norman on Leon IX with Battle of Civitate in Italy of the South. The pope, prisoner, must recognize the Normandes possessions in Apulie and Calabria.

the Norman , relatively very few, manage harmoniously and effectively their territories. It opportunely use competences of the populations which compose their subjects (Italian, Sarrasins, Greeks and French), which preserve their identity. The fleet Norman is made up of Greeks, the tax system rises from the Arab model… The State is centralized on the imported feudal model of Normandy. It is enough strong to resist the movement of disintegration which the remainder of the peninsula knows and to fight the threats coming from papacy like Occident and Byzantine Empires.

Raids of the Petchenègues in the Byzantine Empire.
Début of the immigration of Juifs Karaïtes, which recommends the return to the direct interpretation of the texts, Iraq and Egypt towards Byzance. The coexistence with the Jews Romaniotes (for which the rabbinical comment prevails on the direct reading) is difficult, as long as Alexis Ier Comnène is obliged to make build with Constantinople a wall between the two communities.

Art & culture

Miracles of saint Hubert , concerning the period 950 -1050.
Cosmas of Prague, senior of the chapter of Prague, writes in Latin his Cronica Boemorum .

Generalization of the Romanesque art in Western Europe.
Style of Ballot boxes in the Scandinavian Art (1050 - 1170).
Edouard the Confessor begins the construction of the Abbaye of Westminster (devoted in 1065).
Construction of the Temple-mountain of the Baphûon to Angkor.

has Byzance, the Papier replaces the Parchemin in the middle of the 11th century.
Last use of the papyrus by the popes.
Of the books is printed in China with mobile wood characters.
the candle S and the candle S are used for the lighting in Europe.
Erection of Keep S out of stone in Occident (second half of the 11th century).

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