- South America
Tierradentro tombs
The people of Tierradentro hew vast painted underground burial chambers into the mountains, a unique record of a developed pre-Hispanic Andean society.
Era: Goldsmiths and Megalith Carvers
Sources: National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- North America
Tikal at its height
Tikal reaches its architectural and artistic peak as one of the dominant city-states of the Classic Maya world.
Era: The Maya Heartland
Sources: Tikal National Park · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Tikal · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
The monastic golden age
Monasteries such as Clonard, Clonmacnoise and Bangor became renowned centres of learning whose scribes copied Western literature and produced illuminated manuscripts, while Irish missionaries evangelised Europe.
Era: Gaelic Ireland and the Monastic Golden Age
Sources: Ireland Converts to Christianity · EBSCO Research Starters
- Asia
Tang dynasty and a cosmopolitan golden age
The Tang dynasty (618-907) builds a vast, outward-looking empire centered on Chang'an, refining the examination system and producing a flowering of poetry; woodblock printing and gunpowder first appear.
Era: Division, Reunification, and the Tang-Song Golden Age
Sources: Tang dynasty, Teaching China with the Smithsonian · Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Song Dynasty and the golden age (Asia for Educators) · Columbia University, Asia for Educators
Culture & IdeasThe 7th century
Culture & Ideas in the 7th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 7th century — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 600 to 618. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 4
- Nations
- 4
- Earliest
- 600
- Latest
- 618
- Asia
- 1
- Europe
- 1
- North America
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.