Culture & IdeasThe 8th century

Culture & Ideas in the 8th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 8th century — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, running from 700 to 755. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
4
Nations
4
Earliest
700
Latest
755
Asia
2
North America
2

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

  1. North America

    Belize

    Height of the Classic Maya cities

    Caracol, Xunantunich, Lamanai, Altun Ha and others flourished as ceremonial and political centres, with monumental architecture, hieroglyphic inscriptions and populations in the tens of thousands sustained by intensive agriculture.

    Era: The land of the Maya

    Sources: Caracol Archaeological Project — History of the Site · Caracol Archaeological Project, History of Belize · Encyclopædia Britannica, Our History · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Belize

  2. Asia

    Jordan

    Quseir Amra is built

    An Umayyad prince raised the bath-house and pleasure palace of Quseir Amra, whose figurative murals make it one of the most important survivals of early Islamic art; UNESCO inscribed it in 1985.

    Era: Islam, the Caliphates and Four Centuries of Ottoman Rule

    Sources: Quseir Amra · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  3. Asia

    South Korea

    Bulguksa and Seokguram built

    Unified Silla constructs the Bulguksa temple and the Seokguram grotto near Gyeongju, masterpieces of Buddhist art later inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.

    Era: Unified Silla and Goryeo

    Sources: Unified Silla dynasty · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  4. North America

    Honduras

    Hieroglyphic Stairway completed

    The fifteenth ruler finishes the great stairway, whose roughly 1,200 carved glyphs form the longest known Maya inscription.

    Era: Copán and the First Peoples

    Sources: Hieroglyphic Stairway · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Maya Site of Copán · UNESCO World Heritage Centre