1.23.2009

Timeline Assignment

1050 AD

Institutions

  • Cahokia the important religious and economic regional centre reaches its peak
  • Islam introduced to West-Africa
  • Mapungubwe was a city in what is now northern South Africa
  • Chetro Ketl is constructed
  • Hohokam ceramics began to take place
  • Fujiwara no Yorimicho converts the rural villa at Byodo-in into a famous Japanese Buddhist temple.
  • The Normans establish Melfi as the capital of southern Italy
  • Construction begins on the Basilica of Sant'Abbondio
  • West Mebon was built in Angkor

Technology

  • Astrolabe used in Europe
  • Around this time, the use of the heavy plow came about
  • Brewing beer started around this time
  • Arabs brought their decimal system to Spain
  • Adoption of gunpowder
  • Invention of spectacles
  • Greatly improved watermills
  • Perfecting their agriculture
  • Building of clocks became better
  • As well as ships in general

Governance

  • Swedish forces attack Finland
  • King Anund Jacob of Sweden was succeeded by Emund the Old
  • Tughril Beg conquers Isfahan and establishes Seljuk capital there
  • The city of Oslo is founded in Norway
  • Around the time Edward the Confessor rules England with the support of the Danes
  • The East-West Schism or the Great Schism began somewhere around this time
  • Devon and Cornwall moved to Exeter
  • The former Nine Year War began
  • Edward expels the Godwine family
  • Udayadityavarman II ruled the Angkor Kingdom

Commerce

  • The first agricultural revolution of Medieval Europe
  • Monks Mound under construction at Cahokia, Illinois
  • An Anasazi trade center in New Mexico offered pottery, turquoise and buffalo meat
  • Climate improved so the crops could be grown more reliably

1050 BC

Institutions

  • Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant from Israel in battle
  • The Centennial Stump, a giant sequoia, started its growth
  • Many small local iron industries appeared
  • Large tempered earth walls were built in Ancient China
  • Intricate cast bronze vessels

Technology

  • Flywheel-driven saqiya chain pump and noria developed by Ibn Bassal
  • The Duke of Chou in China builds either an early "south-pointing carriage" or magnetic compass
  • Bronzeware script in greater use
  • New types of graves (long dromoi)
  • Mycenean influences in pottery decoration
  • Around this time a pottery style called Protogeometric improved

Governance

  • Death of Zhou kang wang
  • Zhou zhao wang becomes king
  • Saul becomes the first King of Ancient Israel
  • Shang Dynasty ends in Ancient China
  • Zhou Dynasty begins to take place
  • Battle of Muye
  • The Kingdom of Ledra
  • United Monarchy of Israel

Commerce

  • Enkomi/Tuzla was an important trading center for copper
  • Settlers from mainland Greece migrated across the Aegean Sea
  • Marks the change from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age

SOURCES

http://www.virtuescience.com/1050.html

http://ehistory.osu.edu/
http://www.worldtimelines.org/
http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/mepage.htm
http://www.viking.no/e/etimeline.htm
http://www.historyexplorer.net/?World_History_Timeline:752_AD_-_1300_AD
http://din-timelines.com/1050-1069_timeline.shtml
http://www.jamtan.com/jamtan/fulani.cfm?chap=2&linksPage=219
http://www.cambodia-travel.com/khmer/angkor-era1181.htm
http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/mapungubwe.ht
http://wikipedia.com
http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/tour/ketl.htm




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