- South America
The Wari state
From the Ayacucho region the Wari build an expansive state with roads and planned centres, prefiguring the imperial methods later used by the Inca.
Era: Caral and the Great Andean Civilisations
Sources: Peru: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution
As regent, Prince Shotoku promulgates a set of Confucian and Buddhist moral precepts for government and intensifies the adoption of Chinese institutions.
Era: Yamato and Asuka: The Birth of the State
Sources: Shotoku, Taishi · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Asuka period · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Medina as capital of the early caliphate
Under the first (Rashidun) caliphs, Medina served as the capital of an expanding Muslim empire before power shifted away from Arabia.
Era: The Caliphates and the Hejaz under Outside Rule
Sources: History of Arabia: The Umayyad and Abbasid periods · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sharifate of Mecca · Wikipedia
- Asia
The Taika Reform
A court coup destroys Soga dominance and inaugurates reforms reorganizing land and administration along centralized Chinese lines, the basis of the ritsuryo state.
Era: Yamato and Asuka: The Birth of the State
Sources: Asuka period · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Japan · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Africa
The Baqt treaty
After repelling an Arab invasion, Makuria and Muslim Egypt agree to the Baqt, a durable pact of non-aggression and regulated trade.
Era: The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia
Sources: Baqt · Wikipedia, Christian Nubia and Muslim Egypt Sign Treaty · EBSCO Research Starters
- Asia
Umayyad and Abbasid rule over the Hejaz
The Umayyads from Damascus and the Abbasids from Baghdad governed the Hejaz through appointed governors, patronizing Mecca and Medina from afar.
Era: The Caliphates and the Hejaz under Outside Rule
Sources: History of Arabia: The Umayyad and Abbasid periods · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Asia
Damascus, capital of the Umayyad Caliphate
Muawiya founds the Umayyad dynasty and makes Damascus the capital of the first great Islamic empire, ruling from Spain to Central Asia until the Abbasid revolution of 750.
Era: Islam and the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus
Sources: Umayyad dynasty — Islamic history · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Syria — history · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Politics & PowerThe 7th century
Politics & Power in the 7th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged politics and power — dynasties, constitutions, revolutions and changes of regime, narrowed to the 7th century — 7 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 600 to 661. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 7
- Nations
- 5
- Earliest
- 600
- Latest
- 661
- Asia
- 5
- Africa
- 1
- South America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.