Years 650

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Regression of arts and the letters in Occident. Development of goldsmithery of the Germanic type to abstract reasons (sacred vessels votive crowns, jewels, fibules).
Deceleration of the trade in Occident. It reaches especially the Neustrie, where were the commercial cities. The Austrasie, primarily agricultural, becomes the center of the royal power. The aristocracy endeavors to benefit from the decline of the king. The episcopal body, especially in the field mérovingien, seeks to obtain particular privileges for its grounds (donation of a monetary workshop, freedom from tax, immunity) to counterbalance the power of the aristocrats. The secular Church enters the political game and loses its religious influence. Certain clerks behave like military chiefs or policy, others use bonds of vassalage. Some practical barbarians are accepted by the Church (ordalie). The Paganisme reappears (Spain of North) and the superstitions and excesses of the worship of the relics develop. The habit to be made bury around the Church where the body of the saint rests triumphs.
Expansion of the Clippings of the Zealand towards the Danish coasts and the mouths of the the Rhine (Utrecht and Dorestadt). They emit silver coins (sceattas).

Swedish Establishment in Grobin, in Courlande, attested by archeology (650 - 800).

Foundation of the kingdom khazar.
Indian Poème of Bhatti telling the history of Rowed.
the king Adityasena Gupta, the sovereign of the most important North of India of the second part of the VIIe century, is the last to practice the sacrifice of horses.

Battle of the camel; Battle of Siffin; Arbitration of Edhroh; Forfeiture of Ali. Revolt kharijites.

a Berber chief of Libya, Za el-Ayamen, fleeing the Arab invasion founds the kingdom songhaï and establishes its capital with Koukia on an island of the Niger. It founds the first dynasty songhaï Dia (or of Za). Dia have summers identified with Berbères lemta, originating in the central Sahara. They reign during several centuries, in spite of the covetousness of the close people which often attack the fertile valley of Niger.

Zal el-Ayamen rejoins the populations of the edges of the Niger (fishing Sorko and Gao hunters) after, according to the legend, having killed the large fish which tyrannized them.

Of the dissenting Arab chiefs emigrates of number on the coast of Zandj (Tanzania) and there forms small states, of VIIe to the XIIIe century, like Souleiman and Saïd, Arab princes come from Oman. Syrian and Persian colonies are sent by the caliphs.

the warriors appear more and more in the art of the last century of the existence of Teotihuacán (650 - 750), symptom or predicts nearest end of the city, destroyed finally by fire. The city will however keep a good part of its population and will preserve its religious importance until in 1521.

the independent groups of islands of the Polynésie are occupied, except for the New Zealand.

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