- — 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: Creating the Seventeen-Article Constitution · National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (Japan), 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: Saudi Arabia: A Country Study · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 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 shifted the empire's capital to Damascus and the Abbasids later ruled from Baghdad, leaving Arabia politically peripheral while Mecca and Medina remained its religious centre.
Era: The Caliphates and the Hejaz under Outside Rule
Sources: Saudi Arabia: A Country Study · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division
- — 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.