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Events

Asia

Africa

  • the Bantous penetrate with the Congo and introduce the Métallurgie there.

America

  • Beginning of the second period Pueblo in North America.

  • the Hohokam of American south-west dig irrigation canals on 16 km, allowing two harvests per annum. The imported objects (copper bell, turquoise mosaics, bracelets and pearls of carved shells, rings of ear, stone pallets, pyrite mirrors, vases and figurines) and the architectural style (plays of ball, hillocks platforms) testify to the Mexican influence.

  • Beginning of the postclassic period with the Mexico (900 - 1540)
  • Disappearance of civilizations of mesoameric, can be under the wandering blows of hunters come from north. The centers Mayas of Palenque, Tikal and Copán are abandoned. Certains Mayas emigrates then towards the southernmost Yucatán. The cities of north, Uxmal, Kabáh, Sayil, Labná and the great center of Chichén Itzá start to thrive (900-1200). Strong Mexican influences, coming from the toltèque city of Tula, are felt.
  • Apogee of the civilization of the Tarasques in the west of the Mexico (capital Tzintzuntzan, close to the Lake Patzcuaro).

Europe

  • Towards 900, under the reign of king Óláfr (according to Adam of Bremen), the Swedes are caught some with the Denmark and prevail in the south of this country. They control one moment the center of Hedeby.
  • the Viking S Danish are established in France of North, in Normandy.
  • Many raids Vikings on the Mediterranean coast.
  • the Magyars settle in Transdanubie. The kingdom of Large-Moravie east destroys.
  • Erection of mounds castrales in Occident (turn out of wooden girded of a palisade and raised on a lump of earth).
  • Beginning of the pontifical Pornocratie.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • Use of the Plow to wheel in the north of the the Loire. Coming from Italy Norman, it reaches the Denmark at the end of the 10th century. At the same time develops the collar of shoulder and the Horseshoe. The Moulin S with water are done less rare.

  • Cordoue in Spain becomes the center of Islamic science.
  • the Windmills arrive of Perse in the Moslem Spain.
  • the technique of manufacture of paper reaches Spain.
  • Invention of the Horseshoe in Occident.
  • the Set of failures, come from India, is spread in Arabia.
  • Appearance of the Cyrillic writing.
  • towards 900 - Publication of the “Shinsen jikyo”, Dictionary Sino-Japanese with mention of the sound, the tone and the direction of the Chinese ideograms.
  • towards 900 - Production of the first porcelains in China.

Simple: 900s

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