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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Disease: Smallpox spreads from India through China and to Asia Minor in southern Europe
• Entertainment: Lyric poetry develops in T'ang dynasty – promotes common Chinese language
  Bishop Isidore of Seville collects Greek and Roman writings
  Coptic art in Egypt starts
• Fashion: Gold jewelry develops in Frankish-Merovingian era
• Religion: Pope Gregory strives for peaceful conversion of Jews, creates picture book of Bible stories, writes manual for duties of clergy
  Pope Gregory founds cantor school in Rome - Development of the Gregorian Chant
• Technology: Book printing begins in China
  First use of windmills in Persia
  Mayan books preserved in ceramic vessels
• Deaths: Christian poet and bishop of Poitiers Fortunatus Venantius, Arab poet Antara ibn Shaddad

Africa

• Coptic art in Egypt starts
• Nubians become Christian

Americas

• Height of Maya civilization - Mayan civilization freed from Teotihuacán influence
  Mayan books preserved in ceramic vessels
  Start of Mayan Late Classic Period
• 50,000 people inhabit Tiahuanaco (Tiahyanaco) in Bolivia starting civilization
• South America: Rise of Huari in Peru

Asia

• China: Book printing begins
  Emergence of Nan Chao state
  Spread of Chan (Zen) and Pure Land Buddhism in China
• India: Yoga Buddha figures created in Bihar (n India)
  Beginning of the Bakhti revival of Hinduism
• Korea: Chan (Zen) Buddhism established in Silla-Korea
• Japan: Chinese and Korean artists settle in Japan
• Tibet: Tibet begins to develop as a state

Europe

• General: Barbarian invasions halt in Western Europe
• Eastern Europe: Czechs and Slovaks settle in Bohemia and Moravia, Yugoslavs in Serbia
  Khazars form empire between Don and Volga rivers
  Decline of the kingdom of Egrisi (Georgia) also known as Lazica
• England: Saxons rule England
• Franco-German States: Arles cathedral started
  Starvation to 604
• Ireland: Beginning of important period of art and literature in Ireland
• Italian States: Money system in Italy replaced by barter system
  Lombards – Scandanavians settle in the German/Italian region - see 568
• Spanish States: Bishop Isidore of Seville collects Greek and Roman writings

Middle East

• Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantine Empire (Turkey) under attack
• Persia: First use of windmills in Persia