Culture & IdeasThe 11th century

Culture & Ideas in the 11th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 11th century — 6 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 1000 to 1010. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
5
Earliest
1000
Latest
1010
Asia
3
South America
2
Africa
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. South America

    Brazil

    Complex Amazonian societies

    Riverine peoples of Amazonia sustain substantial settled populations, managing forests and soils on a scale long underestimated by outsiders.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples Before Contact

    Sources: Brazil · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. South America

    Chile

    The moai of Rapa Nui

    On Easter Island, the Polynesian society of Rapa Nui carves and raises some 900 colossal stone moai on hundreds of ceremonial platforms, an unrivalled monumental tradition later recognised by UNESCO.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples and the World of Rapa Nui

    Sources: Rapa Nui National Park · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  3. Asia

    Iran

    Persia at the heart of the Islamic golden age

    In the House of Wisdom and beyond, Persian scholars such as Avicenna, al-Khwarizmi and Omar Khayyam advance medicine, mathematics and astronomy during the Islamic golden age.

    Era: The Arab Conquest and Islamic Persia — the Golden Age

    Sources: Avicenna (Ibn Sina) · Wikipedia, House of Wisdom · Wikipedia

  4. Africa

    Malawi

    The Chewa rock-painting tradition at Chongoni

    Chewa farming communities, especially women, developed a distinctive rock-painting tradition on the granite hills of the central plateau, linked to initiation, funerals and rainmaking, building on far older paintings by BaTwa hunter-gatherers.

    Era: Bantu farmers and the rock-painters of Chongoni

    Sources: Chongoni Rock-Art Area · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Chongoni Rock Art Area · Wikipedia

  5. Asia

    Iran

    Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh

    The poet Ferdowsi finishes the Shahnameh, the 'Book of Kings', an epic of some 50,000 couplets that preserves Iran's mythic and pre-Islamic history and anchors the Persian language.

    Era: The Arab Conquest and Islamic Persia — the Golden Age

    Sources: Ferdowsī — Persian poet · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) · Wikipedia

  6. Asia

    Japan

    The Tale of Genji

    The court lady Murasaki Shikibu completes The Tale of Genji, widely regarded as the world's first full-length novel and the summit of Heian literature.

    Era: Nara and Heian: The Classical Age

    Sources: The Tale of Genji · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Murasaki Shikibu · Encyclopaedia Britannica