IAR221 Timeline 700BC & 700AD

700AD

institutions

Arabic replaces Greek as official language of Egypt
Buddhist monasteries become center of culture (Japan)
Construction begins on the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Climax of the Zapotec Culture
Beginning of Punuk/Birnick cultures in the Arctic
Teotihuacán destroyed by fire and deserted by its inhabitants
Easter Islanders begin to build stone platforms which form part of ceremonial enclosures

technology

Metalworking techniques reach Costa Rica from Colombia
In Eastern Arizona, Pueblo people live in houses above ground for the first time
Mississippi Native Americans build flat topped mounds as temple bases
Introduction of pagodas in Japan from China

governance

Umayyad forces destroy Carthage and Utica
Islamic army conquers Sind and found first Muslim state in India
Srivijaya takes the Melayu kingdom at Jambi; sends an expedition against the kingdoms in Java
Suwawa kingdom flourishes in North Sulawesi
Avar and Slavic tribes conquer Byzantine territories in the Balkans, occupying lands as far south as the Peloponnese in southern Greece
Arabs invade and occupy most of the Iberian peninsula except for an area in the far North

commerce

Copper and silver coins officially issued by Nara court (Japan)
Sumatran kingdom of Shrivijaya extends its trading network as far as the Moluccas and western New Guinea
Trade along the coast of East Africa expanded and promoted the founding of such settlements as Kismayu, Mogadiscio, Gedi, Malindi, Mombasa, Kilwas and others.
Construction of a new, and permanent, capital city in Nara (Heijôkyô) begins in Japan
Abd al Malik issued the first pure Islamic coins


700BC


institutions

Around this time the poet Hesoid writes the Theogony, and Works and Days
Cities are rising in the Ganges Valley
Early Celts start burying swords with their dead

technology

Aqueducts in the Middle East
New Orientalizing pottery shapes emerge in Corinth, Geometric period ends
Writing systems brought to Mauryan kingdom from Arabia and Persia
In China, boiled water is safer to drink than untreated water, and tea becomes popular, accompanied by the belief that tea has medicinal properties
Exotic Near Eastern animals, monsters and other motifs increasingly used in Greek art
Chariots introduced into Italy by Etruscans

governance

End of the First Messinian war; Sparta enslaves the Messinians, known now as helots
Assyrian army lays siege to the city of Lachish in Judah
Arrival of Gaels in Ireland
Emergence of Etruscan city-states in Central Italy

commerce

Increase in trade between Greek cities and other cultures exotic
Launacian' bronze industry flourishing in southern France
Romanians expand trade routes bringing Greeks to the Black Sea
Aryan migrations into the Ganges Valley are over or coming to an end
In the West the Lydians (Turkey) are the first to make coins

works cited

http://www.historyexplorer.net/?World_History_Timeline
http://www.camelotintl.com/world/
http://www.worldtimelines.org.uk/
http://ehistory.osu.edu
http://timelines.ws/0600AD_999AD.HTML
http://www.fsmitha.com/time-bc3.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001209.html