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962 BCE
King Otto 1, 2 & 3 - «the most powerful rulers in Western Europe.
«In the 900s, King Otto I of Germany, his son Otto II, and grandson Otto III—the three are known as the Ottonians—were the most powerful rulers in Western Europe. Otto controlled the territory of Germany and Rome but not the entire Italian Peninsula, much of which belonged to the Byzantine. Otto’s power allowed him to appoint the pope. In turn, the pope crowned Otto I emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 962 -
Period: 960 BCE to Jan 1, 1276
Song dynasty (960–1276)
Song dynasty (960–1276) -
814 BCE
Etter Karl den stores død
«In Western Europe, Charlemagne had unified modern-day France and Germany, but after his death in 814, his kingdom split into three.» -
Period: 751 BCE to 900
The Abbasid empire controlled a large swath of territory from North Africa in the west all the way to Central Asia in the east.
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742 BCE
60 % of the population of 60 million lived in northern China
« where they grew wheat and millet; by 980, 62 percent lived in southern China, where they cultivated rice, a much more productive crop than the northern grains.» -
1000
100 millioner mennesker bodde i Song dynastiet
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1000
Population of the former Abbasid lands estimated 35 to 40 million in the year 1000.
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1000
Population in Europe: 40 million
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Jan 2, 1000
Byzantine empire
«In contrast to China’s emperor, no single monarch ruled Europe in the year 1000. In Eastern Europe, the Byzantine empire was the most prosperous power, but its military strength was rapidly declining. Although the Byzantine army grew increasingly weaker, forcing the emperor to depend on mercenaries or foreign armies, Constantinople (modern Istanbul) was the most advanced city in Europe. -
1001
Medieval Warm Period
«The distribution of people across Europe changed, too. The population of Southern and Eastern Europe—Italy, Spain, and the Balkans—increased by 50 percent. But because of improved agricultural techniques, the growth in Western and Northern Europe—the region of modern France and Germany—was far greater: there the population skyrocketed by a factor of three, so that nearly half of Europe’s people lived in Northern and Western Europe by 1340.» -
1340
Europes population nearly doubled in 1340 to 750 million
Before the Black death 1347