🔵 Islam, Byzantium, the Maya, and the Norse · 500 – 999 CE
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🔵 Dot 1 · 500s CE
After years as a hermit, St. Benedict gathers monks into communities governed by a moderate Rule of daily prayer, work, and obedience, survives their attempts to assassinate him, and begins a monastic tradition that will preserve Roman learning through the collapse of Western European civilization. (529)
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🔵 Dot 2 · 600s CE
Mohammed slips past assassins and escapes to Medina, where he becomes not only a prophet but the leader of a new society. (622)
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🔵 Dot 3 · 700s CE
Caliph al-Mansur draws a vast circle next to the Tigris River for his new capital, Baghdad, and summons scholars to translate the learning of India, Persia, and Greece into Arabic. (762) Vikings raid the monastery at Lindisfarne, launching the age of Viking attacks across Europe. (793)
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🔵 Dot 4 · 800s CE
Charlemagne, grandson of Charles Martel, kneels in Rome on Christmas Day as the Pope crowns him the new (and holy!) Roman Emperor. (800 CE) In Iraq, African slaves launch the huge Zanj Rebellion, in which they come very close to winning their freedom… but after fourteen years, fail utterly. (869)
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🔵 Dot 5 · 900s CE
Viking chieftains gather at the base of massive cliffs to proclaim laws, judge disputes, and govern Iceland together. (930)
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