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Eighth Century

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711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720
721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730
731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740
741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750
751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760
761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770
771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780
781 782 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790
791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800

See also: List of centuries , Roman numerals

The eighth century begins on January 1 701 and ends on 31 December 800.

Summary

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America

  • Emergence of agriculture in eastern Canada.
  • First cities in Mississippi (700-1000), built around temples, terraces, like Cahokia , the oldest city in North America.
  • The south-western North America is dominated by the cultures of Hohokam , the Mogollon and Anasazi ( Utah , Colorado , Arizona , New Mexico , Sonora , Chihuahua ). High quality ceramic. The oldest culture, that of Hohokam is located in the deserts of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. Settlements are made of narrow houses, silos, half-underground, located near rivers for irrigation (maize, beans, squash, cotton, perhaps tobacco and amaranth).
  • Reconstruction of the city Maya of Tikal , with five temples, pyramids, ball courts, temples and palaces connected by wide roads. Tikal has 50 000 inhabitants in the eighth century.
  • Civilization of Tiahuanaco (700-1300) and then south to northern Peru and eastern Bolivia. The city of Tiahuanaco ( Bolivia ), the highest of the ancient cities of the Andes , has 35 000 inhabitants between 700 and 1300. Architecture in large blocks of basalt and sandstone (Sun), anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculpture, pottery and polychrome fabrics, precious metal plated objects. The state religion of Tiahuanaco, gradually penetrates Peru Andes and the coast.
  • The north coast of Peru is dominated by the State of Chimu , with Chan Chan as its capital, over 1600 kilometers. The various groups of buildings of Chan Chan (ciudadelas) are surrounded by brick walls 12 m high and isolate the Chimu kings of the rest of the city, which stretches over 15 km. At the king's death, his ciudadela is sealed like a mausoleum, and his successor built another.

Black Africa

  • The Proto- Bantu , born of a blending between the Neolithic and Paleolithic Saharan Sudanese, began a long migration from the late first millennium BC. AD , driven by population pressure. They go in search of new habitat and gradually introduce the use of iron in Central Africa, while the use of stone knives persists in southern Africa until the mid- nineteenth century. A portion of them are likely driven directly south down the river Oubangui and Sangha. Others bypassed the rainforest before heading south. The first group of Proto-Bantu Bantu nucleus formed the western and the second is at the origin of eastern Bantu nucleus centered on the Zairian province of Shaba (formerly Katanga), where the Bantu languages are broadcast to the east, west and south. They occupy the Congo River basin to the eighth or ninth century.
  • Kingdom of Kanem founded by a dynasty Teda (Tubu tribe) in Sudan from Chad. The mixture of Teda with indigenous populations (Sao) produced a mixed people, the Kanembou.
  • Melanesians affect the coast of Madagascar and mingle with the Bantu from the mainland. Economies to exchange Sanga ( Madagascar ).

Asia oriental

Central Asia

India

  • Cut temples of Elephanta (island in the Bay of Bombay ).
  • In Nepal , the successor to the dynasty Takhurs Lichhavi.

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

Peoples Slavs in the eighth and ninth centuries , map of 1917.
  • The Moravian resistant to invasion of Avars with the help of Charlemagne.
  • The Czechs are vassals of Charlemagne at the end of the century.
  • Art Style Blatno in Slovakia from the north, taking elements from the art fair, art Viking and the Southeast.
  • In the early eighth century, the Slavs of the Alps, the main tribe is that of Carantaniens to escape the submission of the Avars, the Bavarians call the Duke Odilon. From the north of the Carpathians and the Balkans, sent by the Byzantines to combat the Avars , their habitat then reaches Pustertal. They turned back and at the end of the century settlement of their border is the Enns, which separates them from the Bavarians. At their head is a Zupan, elected by the people as a rite held until 1414. Romanized Slavic peoples and the region merging in the ninth century , with the maintenance in some valleys of elements such as novels, and Ladino Tyrol Frioulins of Eastern Veneto.
  • The Baltic peoples are divided between the Vistula and the Gulf of Finland. The Prussians (Pruzzen) between the Vistula and the Niemen, near the Lithuanians, Lithuanians divided into many tribes (including Schmude in Samogitia) in the basin of the Niemen, Latvians (Lettgalles, Zemgale, Seles) around the Gulf Riga, the Lives and Estes north to the Gulf of Finland, Finno-Ugric tribes related to Finnish.
  • Scandinavian traders and adventurers colonize the Baltic region from the seventh century , then go up the rivers as the Dvina, Berezina, the Dnieper to reach Constantinople in the ninth century. The Chronicle of Nestor (c. 1115 ) lists the Baltic peoples have paid tribute to the Prince of Kiev: The Lives, the Samigotes the Pruzzes and CUD (Estes).
  • Hungarian tribes left the region of Bashkortostan and migrate south from the seventh or eighth century. Found on the Volga and the Don, where they coexist with the Bulgarians , including Onogours, and establish close relations with the empire of the Khazars (more than 200 words of Hungarian origin Turkish-Bulgarian, of others show the influence of the Iranian Sarmatians and Alans ). After 700 , some argue Hungarian tribes into northern Caucasus ( Magyars Savard), further north of the Black Sea.

Significant Figures

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Religious

Artists

Geography

  • Jia Dan , cartographer and geographer Chinese

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Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Art and culture

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