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The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament
With the end of iconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches
Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized
The Assassins, a sect of Nizari Ismailis, begin to acquire strongholds in Persia
The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host
Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals
Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers
The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders
The Yoruba develop an extensive empire centred on Oyo in southern Nigeria
Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen
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