711

In 711: 3 events across 3 regions, including Umayyad conquest of Hispania, Muhammad ibn al-Qasim conquers Sind, Hōryū-ji burns and is rebuilt: the world’s oldest wooden buildings.

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• Nazca culture and the Nazca Linesbetween 200 and 100 BC – between 500 and 800 · Latin America
• Basketmaker III: pottery, beans and the bow on the Colorado Plateauc. 500 – c. 750 · North America
• The Pallava monuments of Mamallapurambetween 600 and 630 – between 700 and 728 · South Asia
• Building of the Great Mosque of Damascusbetween 705 and 706 – between 711 and 715 · Middle East and Egypt
• Qutayba ibn Muslim conquers Transoxiana705–715 · Central and Northern Asia
• The Late Woodland period in eastern North Americac. 500 – c. 1000 · North America
• Volyntsevo culture: the Slavs of the Dnieper Left Bank in the Khazar agebetween 700 and 750 – between 813 and 833 · Eastern Europe
• 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
• Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valleyc. 650 – c. 1050 · North America