7th century
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(6th century - 7th century - 8th century - other centuries)
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Events
- Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is written and Syria, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, North Africa and Central Asia fall to Islam.
- Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
- Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
- End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
- Serbs and Croats entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations, and setting up early states.
- Teotihuacan is sacked and burnt.
- The religion of Shugendo evolves from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto and other influences in the mountains of Japan.
- The Bulgars arrive in the Balkans.
- Arab traders penetrate the area of Lake Chad.
- First English poetry
Significant persons
- Gregory the Great (Pope, 590-604)
- Saint Cuthbert
- Emperor Taizong of Tang China
- Muhammad (570-632)
- Ali ibn Abi Talib (600-661), cousin of Muhammad, central to Shi'a Islam
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- The stirrup introduced to Persia from China, late 7th century
- Earliest known record of the game Chatrang, predecessor to Chess
Decades and years
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