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| c. 700 |
| | | Shortage of manpower in the Muslim armies causes a change of policy, with non-Arabs now allowed to convert to Islam | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The African slave trade through the Sahara is so extensive that a new town, Zawila, is established as a trading station | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The discovery of the technique of porcelain, the most delicate of all forms of pottery, is made in China | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | Turkish tribes, northern neighbours of the Muslims in central Asia, begin to adopt Islam as their religion | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The earliest two Turkish states are the confederation of Gök Türk and the empire of the Khazars | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The quipu is used in the Wari culture and becomes the standard recording device of the Andean civilizations | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | The ancient kingdom of Ghana is the first to be established at the southern end of the Saharan trade routes | |
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| c. 700 |
| | | Many Anglo-Saxon kingdoms have by now amalgated, until there are just the seven of the Heptarchy | |
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| 710 |
| | | The Japanese imperial court makes its capital city at Nara, based on the Chinese example of Xi'an | |
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| 711 |
| | | Muslim Arabs cross from north Africa into Spain and drive the Visigoths from Toledo | |
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