See also: List of the centuries, Roman numerals ---- The century begins on January 1st 701 and finishes the December 31st 800.

Events

America

• Appearance of agriculture in the east of the Canada.

• First Cities of the Mississippi (700-1000), built around terrace-temples, like Cahokia, oldest agglomeration of North America.
• the South-west of North America is dominated by the cultures of Hohokam, Mogollon and Anasazi (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua). Ceramics of great quality. The oldest culture, that of Hohokam is in the deserts of Arizona Southerner and septentrional Sonora. The establishments are made of house-silo narrow, with half-underground, located close to rivers allowing an irrigation (culture of the corn, beans, marrows, cotton, perhaps of the tobacco and amaranth).
• Rebuilding of the Maya city of Tikal, with five temple-pyramids, of the plays of ball, the temples and the palates connected by broad roadways. Tikal counts 50.000 inhabitants at the century.
• Civilization of Tiahuanaco (700-1300) in the south then in the north of Peru and the east of Bolivia. The highest city of Tiahuanaco (Bolivia), of the old cities of the the Andes, account 35.000 inhabitants between 700 and 1300. Structure in broad blocks of basalt and sandstone (sun carries), anthropomorphic sculpture and polychrome zoomorphe, potteries and fabrics, objects out of plated noble metals. The religion of the State de Tiahuanaco, gradually penetrates Peru of the Andes and the coast.
• the northern coast of the Peru is dominated by the State of Chimú, with Chan Chan for capital, over more than 1600 kilometers. The various whole of buildings of Chan Chan ( ciudadelas ) is surrounded by raw brick walls 12 height m and isolates king de Chimú from the remainder of the city, which extends on more than 15 km ². With died of the king, his ciudadela is sealed like a funerary mausoleum, and its successor builds another of them.

Black Africa

• Proto- Bantous, born from an interbreeding between the Saharan Neolithic eras and the paleolithic Sudaneses, began a long migration as of the end of II, pushed by the demographic pressure. They leave to research a new habitat and gradually introduce the use of iron in central Africa, while the use of the stone knives persists in Southern Africa until the middle of the 19th century. A part of them were probably inserted directly towards the south while descending the rivers Sangha and Oubangui. Others circumvented the Equatorial forest before moving towards the south. The first group of these Proto-Bantous formed Western the Bantou core and second is at the origin of Eastern the Bantou core centered on the Zairean province of Shaba (ex-Katanga), from where the language bantou will be diffused towards the east, the west and the south. They occupy the basin of the Congo river towards or the 9th century.

• Kingdom of Kanem founded by a dynasty Téda (Toubou tribe) in Chadian Sudan. The mixture of Téda with the indigenous populations (Sao) produced mixed people, Kanembou.
• Of Mélanésiens touches the Malagasy coast and mixes with the Bantou come from the continent. Savings in exchange in Sanga (Madagascar).

Eastern Asia

• Nara capital of the Japan.

• Construction of sanctuaries dedicated to Shiva on the plate of Dieng and the Temple of Buddhist Borobudur in the center of the island of Java.
• On the coasts of the south of current the Vietnam, then province khmère, raids of troops come by sea from Java and other islands from current the Indonesia.

Central Asia

• the Kyrgyz try to conquer hegemony in Central Asia, then are folded up in their area of origin (Abakan, on Haut-Iénisseï).

• the Ouïghours form a federation of the south of the Lac Baïkal.
• Karlouks and Tölech nomadisent of the Altaï to the lake Balkhach. In the south of the lake the Türkech live.

India

• Temples dug of Éléphanta (island of bay of Bombay).

• With the Nepal, the dynasty of Takhurs succeeds Lichhavi.

Western Europe

• 711 : Unloading of troops arabo-Moslem women to Gibraltar, beginning of the Moslem conquest of the Iberian peninsula.

• maximum Expansion in Occident of the empire arabo-Moslem
• 732: Victoire of Charles Martel, Mayor of the palate of Austrasie, on the arabo-Moslems of Abd el Rahman with Poitiers
• 743: Crowning of Childéric III, the last of the kings Mérovingiens
• 751: Pip the Brief proclaimed king of the Frank , beginning of the Carolingian dynasty
• Charlemagne (742 - Aachen, 814), king of the Francs (768 - 814) and emperor of Occident.
• Foundation of the town of Erfurt.
• Saga of Beowulf, which depicts the company saxonne, founded on the war, heroism, honor and generosity.
• triennial Rotation as a Gaulle.
• Harald Hilteland (tooth of combat), semi-legendary king of the Denmark. According to Sax Grammaticus, it would have been killed by its Hringr nephew with the Bataille of Brávellir (close to Norrköping, in Sweden).

Eastern Europe

• the Moravie resists the invasions of the Avars with the assistance of Charlemagne.
• the Czechs are vassal of Charlemagne at the end of the century.
• artistic Style of Blatno in Slovakia of North, borrowing elements from frank art, art Viking and that of South-east.
• At the beginning of the century, the Slavic of the Alps, whose principal tribe is that of Carantaniens, in order to escape the tender from Avars, call upon Bavarian of the duke Odilon. Come from the north of Carpates or Balkans, sent by the Byzantines to fight the Avars, their habitat reaches Pustertal then. They move back and at the end of the century the border of their settlement is in Enns, which separate them from the Bavarian one. At their head a župan, elected by the people according to a rite preserved until in is 1414. The Slavic and romanized populations of the area amalgamate during the 9th century, with maintains in certain valleys of Romance elements like Ladins of the Tyrol and Frioulins of Eastern Venezia.
• the Baltic people are divided between the the Vistula and the gulf of Finland. The Prussians (Pruzzen) between the Vistula and Nièmen, near to the Lithuanians, the Lithuanians, divided into many tribes (of which Schmudes, in Samogitie), in the basin of Niémen, the Latvians (Lettgalles, Zemgales, Saddles) around the gulf of Rīga, Lives and Estes in north, to the gulf of Finland, Finno-ugric related with the Finnish tribes.
• Of the tradesmen and adventurous Scandinavian colonizes the area of the Baltic States as from the 7th century, then go up the rivers like Dvina, Berezina, Dniepr to reach Constantinople at the 9th century. The chronicle of Nestor (towards 1115) enumerates the Baltic people having paid tribute with prince de Kiev: Lives, Samigotes, Pruzzes and Čud (Estes).
• Of the Hungarian tribes leaves the area of Bachkirie and migrates towards the South starting from the {{mini VIIe}} or century. One finds them on the Volga, then on the Gift, where they cohabit with the Bulgares, in particular Onogours, and draw up close connections with the empire of the Khazars (more than 200 Hungarian words are of turco-Bulgarian origin, others show the Iranian influence of the Sarmates and the Alains). After 700, certain tribes Hungarian advance until the north of the Caucasus (Magyars Savard), others towards the North of the Black Sea.

Significant characters

chiefs Political S

• Pip the Brief, king of the Frank ,

• Charlemagne, emperor of occident.

Philosopher S and Theologist S

• Bède Worthy the (672 - 735), mathematician, philosophical, historian, developed the Liberal arts, created the Comput.

• Paul Deacon (720 - 800), scholar of origin lombarde
• Alcuin (730 - 804), adviser of Charlemagne, founder of the school S in the Carolingian Empire,
• Théodulf of Orleans (750 - 821), theologist.

See: Philosophical and theologists of VIIIe century

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Comput, calculation of the movable feasts and the dating, founded by Bède Worthy the,

• Tiny Caroline

Art and Culture

See: Carolingian Rebirth

• Carolingian Architecture
• Goldsmithery.

• Beginning of the construction of the Large Mosque of Cordoue

Beats-smg: VIII omžios Be-X-old: 8 стагодзьдзе Nds-nl: 8th eeuw Simple: 8th century