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| c. 1000 |
| | | The salt mines of the Sahara provide a staple commodity in the African caravan trade | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Man-eating Caribs move into the islands around the sea named after them - the Caribbean | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The Inca ethnic group migrates into the region of the Cuzco valley in Peru | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Turks from Ghazni, raiding into northwest India, renew the pressure of Islam on the subcontinent | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Warlike tribal groups, calling themselves Rajput and claiming descent from the Aryan warrior caste, are now in Rajasthan | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | A trading centre at Mapungubwe, on the Limpopo, evolves into a state ruled by a king in a zimbabwe | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Lively and often fantastic figures, cunningly fitted around the capitals of columns, show the vigour of Romanesque sculpture | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The feudal knight of northern Europe, wearing armour of chain mail on a sturdy horse, becomes the fighting machine of the Middle Ages | |
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| 1001 |
| | | Japanese author Murasaki Shibubi produces, in The Tale of Genji, a book which can be considered the world's first novel | |
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| c. 1001 |
| | | Pope Sylvester II, according to tradition, sends a sacred crown for the coronation of Hungary's first king, St Stephen | |
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