650

In 650: 3 events across 3 regions, including Uthman’s standard codex of the Qur’an, Cacaxtla and Xochicalco: the Epiclassic cities of central Mexico, Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valley.

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Processes that began earlier and continued through this period

• Nazca culture and the Nazca Linesbetween 200 and 100 BC – between 500 and 800 · Latin America
• Óc Eo, the port of Funanbetween 1 and 100 – between 601 and 700 · Southeast Asia and Oceania
• Early Slavic cultures: Prague-Korchak, Penkovka and Kolochinc. 450 – c. 700 · Eastern Europe
• Basketmaker III: pottery, beans and the bow on the Colorado Plateauc. 500 – c. 750 · North America
• The Western Turkic Khaganate: the “ten arrows” from the Altai to the Oxus603 – between 657 and 658 · Central and Northern Asia
• Songtsen Gampo builds the Tibetan Empirebetween 618 and 629 – between 649 and 650 · Central and Northern Asia
• Samo’s realmbetween 623 and 626 – between 658 and 659 · Western and Central Europe
• Arab conquest of Persia and the fall of the Sasanian Empire633 – between 651 and 652 · Middle East and Egypt
• Kʼinich Janaab Pakal rules Palenquebetween 24 July and 26 July 615 – between 26 August and 28 August 683 · Latin America
• Rise of the Khazar Khaganatebetween 630 and 650 – c. 670 · Eastern Europe
• The Pallava monuments of Mamallapurambetween 600 and 630 – between 700 and 728 · South Asia
• Arab conquest of the Maghreb647–709 · Africa
• The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
• Wari culture and the Middle Horizon state in the Central Andesc. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America
• Tiwanaku culture at its height by Lake Titicacac. 600 – c. 1000 · Latin America