800

In 800: 5 events across 4 regions, including Coronation of Charlemagne, The House of Wisdom and the translation movement in Baghdad, Classic Maya collapse in the southern lowlands.

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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
• 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
• Cacaxtla and Xochicalco: the Epiclassic cities of central Mexicoc. 650 – c. 900 · Latin America
• Byzantine Iconoclasmbetween 726 and 730 – 11 March 843 · Balkans and Anatolia
• Saxon Wars772–804 · Western and Central Europe
• Reign of Harun al-Rashidbetween 14 September and 17 September 786 – 24 March 809 · Middle East and Egypt
• 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
• Building of Borobudurc. 780 – c. 833 · Southeast Asia and Oceania
• Pueblo I: villages of surface rooms on the Colorado Plateauc. 750 – c. 900 · North America
• Saltovo-Mayaki culturec. 750 – between 900 and 950 · Eastern Europe
• Plum Bayou Mounds: a planned ceremonial centre in the Arkansas valleyc. 650 – c. 1050 · North America
• The tripartite struggle for Kannaujbetween 783 and 790 – between 915 and 918 · South Asia
• Igbo-Ukwu: bronze casting in the West African forest800–899 – 1100–1199 · Africa