Timeline Project

900 AD

I N S T I T U T I O N S
· The Fujiwara period of Japanese cultures
· Confucianism was developed
· Feminine literature was dawned upon

G O V E R N A N C E
· The Carolingian king Odo Eudes, of Western Franks dies
· Charles III in Laon becomes king but has no real authority
· Assassination of Duke Lambert of Spoleto
· Alfred the Great dies April 26 after his 28-year reign
· Moravians and Hungarians invade Bavaria
· Ludwig III becomes the king of Germany at the age of 6
· The reign of the German Carolingian Kings ends in 911
· Archbishop of Mainz, tutors the new sovereign, which governs the German Kingdom with Adelbero
· Donald II, the Scottish King was killed after a 11-year reign
· Constantine II will reign until 943 as the new king of Alba
· Greenland is discovered by Norseman Gunbjorn
· Pope John IX dies and is replaced by Benedict IV

C O M M E R C E
· Trade going down the Rhône, Danube and Nile
· Trade suffered when the Romans quitted the Britain
· Wics- trade centers which tradesman and craftsmen settled
· Trade centers were located around castles and government centers
· The basis for economics have been set in place by “village belts”

T E C H N O L O G Y
· Bagdatixon- the Baghdad sheet a standard size of roughly 29 inches by 43 inches
· First description of smallpox and established criteria for diagnosis
· Persian windmill was invented to raise water and mill corn
· Upgrade to in textbooks: spaces in between words was developed
· Invention of navigational compass that were used on Chinese ships
· Explosive mixture, called huoyao, was used by the military during the Tang dynasty
· The invention of zero changed the world of mathematics


900 BC
I N S T I T U T I O N S
· Villanovan culture emerges in northern Italy
· San Lorenzo, the center of early Olmec culture, is destroyed
· New cities were formed
· Collapse of the Bronze Age in the East
· Early Iron Age in the East arose
· Foundation of Sparta
· The time of the Buddha and Buddhism is founded
· Cyrus’ created a great religious shift to monotheism

G O V E R N A N C E
· The Greek Dark Age begins
· The first king of the northern Hebrew kingdom, Jeroboam, dies
· Zhou Xiao Wang becomes the new King of the Zhou Dynasty in China
· Kingdom of Kush is born
· Neo-Assyrian Empire is established
· Kingdom of Ethiopia is founded
· Earliest known settlement in Plymouth, England
· Israel divides into two kingdom: Judah and Israel
· No real military power in Mesopotamia
· Persians controlled most of West Asia and created the Persian Empire

C O M M E R C E
· Spanish horses were introduced to trading because of their use as cavalry mounts
· Trading post in Africa, Sicily, Sardinia and Iberai
· Trade routes for the Phoenicians stretched from the Tigris to the Euphrates
· Persians built good paved roads throughout Western Asia
· Gold was being used as money at this time

T E C H N O L O G Y
· Geometric period start in Ancient Greece
· Yajnavalkya writes the Shatapatha Brahmana which describes the sun and moon movement
· First extant evidence of the Aramaic written language
· Creation of ceremonial golden hats in Central Europe
· Hebrew alphabet develops
· Large earthen pyramids were developed
· Iron was being use to make weapons and tools



**Sources**
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-http://www.answers.com/topic/900s-bc
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