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th century

(6th century - 7th century - 8th century - other centuries)

Events

• Islam starts in Arabia, the Qur'an is written, and Arabs spread Islam into Syria, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, North Africa and Central Asia.
• Sutton Hoo ship burial, East Anglia (modern England)
• Xuan Zang (aka Hsuan-Tsang) travelled from China to India, before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
• End of sporadic Buddhist rule in the Sindh.
• Serbs entered their present territory early in the 7th century AD, settling in six distinct tribal delimitations.

Significant persons

• Muhammad (570-622)
• Gregory the Great (Pope, 590-604)
• Emperor Taizong of Tang China
• Saint Cuthbert

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• The stirrup introduced to Persia from China, late 7th century
• Earliest known record of the game Chatrang, predecessor to Chess

Decades and years

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