670

In 670: 3 events across 3 regions, including Rise of the Khazar Khaganate, Uqba ibn Nafi founds Kairouan, Hōryū-ji burns and is rebuilt: the world’s oldest wooden buildings.

Open this period in the atlas

Events

Still going on

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
• Kʼinich Janaab Pakal rules Palenquebetween 24 July and 26 July 615 – between 26 August and 28 August 683 · Latin America
• The Pallava monuments of Mamallapurambetween 600 and 630 – between 700 and 728 · South Asia
• Silla and the Tang destroy Baekje and Goguryeo; Silla unites Korea20 August 660 – between 11 December 676 and 8 January 677 · East 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
• Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valleyc. 650 – c. 1050 · North America