10th Century

Information about 10th Century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.

Overview

The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval. In the Muslim World, however, it was a cultural zenith, especially in Spain. Also it was the zenith for the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires.

Medievalist and historian of technology Lynn White said that "to the modern eye, it is very nearly the darkest of the Dark Ages", but concluded that ". . . if it was dark, it was the darkness of the womb."[1] Similarly, Helen Waddell wrote that the tenth century was that which "in the textbooks disputes with the seventh the bad eminence, the nadir of the human intellect."[2] Even in the fifteenth century, Lorenzo Valla described it as the Century of Lead and Iron.

Events

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This statue of a yogini goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 10th century.
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The Bulgarian victory at Anchialos.

Significant people

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Emperor Taizu of Song China.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Decades and Years

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Notes

1. ^ Quoted in The Tenth Century: How Dark the Dark Ages?, edited by Robert Sabatine Lopez. Holt, Reinhart and Winston: 1959.
2. ^ The Wandering Scholars. Constable and Co: London, 1927.

Further reading

  • Heinrich Fichtenau: Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders (transl. Patrick J. Geary; Chicago cool
London: 1991).
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Muslim world (or Islamic world) has several meanings. In a cultural sense it refers to the worldwide community of Muslims, adherents of Islam. This community numbers about 1.5-2 billion people, about one-fourth of the world.
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Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (April 29 1907 – March 30 1987) was a professor of medieval history at Princeton, Stanford and, for many years, University of California, Los Angeles. He was president of Mills College, Oakland from 1943 to 1958.
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Dark Ages or Dark Age refers to the Early Middle Ages, the period encompassing (roughly) 476 AD to 1000 AD.

This concept of a dark age was created by the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s, and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of
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Lorenzo (or Laurentius) Valla (c. 1407 – August 1, 1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator. His family was from Piacenza; his father, Luca della Valla was a lawyer.
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The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Optimum was a time of unusually warm climate in the North Atlantic region, lasting from about the tenth century to about the fourteenth century.

The MWP is often invoked in contentious discussions of global warming.
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Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the 8th to the 11th century[1]
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Normans were a people from medieval northern France, deriving to a large extent their aristocratic origins from Scandinavia (the name is adapted from the name "Northmen" or "Norsemen").
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Commune of
Cluny


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Country  France
Arrondissement Mâcon
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Monasticism (from Greek μοναχός, monachos, derived from Greek monos, alone) is the religious practice in which one renounces worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work.
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over 8 million1 (2007)

Regions with significant populations Bulgaria: 6,655,2102 (2001)
Turkey: 300,0004
Ukraine: 204,0002 (2002)
Spain: 119,799 (2007)3
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Battle of Anchialus (Bulgarian: битка при Ахелой) took place on August 20, 917, on the Black Sea coast near the Bulgarian fortress Tuthom, which is now the town
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian: Българска православна църква,
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15.0 million
Regions with significant populations
 Hungary
 Romania
 United States
 Slovakia
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Mieszko I (c. 935–May 25 992), son of the semi-legendary Siemomysł, was the first historically known Piast duke of the Polans, who gave their name to the country that would later be called "Poland.
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none1
Anthem
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego   (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Khazaria also known as Khazar khaganate or Khazar khanate was the country of the Khazars, neighboring the Byzantine Empire in the southwest, Kievan Rus' in the northwest, Volga Bulgaria in the north, and Azerbaijan in the southeast.
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Kievan Rus′ was the early, predominantly East Slavic[1] state dominated by the city of Kiev from about 880 to the middle of the 12th century. From the historiographical point of view, Rus' polity is considered a early predecessor of three modern East Slavic
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Vladimir Svyatoslavich the Great (c. 958 – 15 July 1015, Berestovo) was the grand prince of Kiev who converted to Christianity in 988, and proceeded to baptise the whole Kievan Rus.
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