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| c. 1000 |
| | | Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | A Muslim dynasty is established at Gao, on the Niger | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Buddhist, Hindu and Jain shrines are carved from the rock in the cave temples of Ellora, in India | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The Jews, barred from any work which Christians want to do, find profitable employment as money-lenders | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The first illustrated manual of surgery is written by Abul Kasim, an Arab physician in Cordoba | |
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| c. 1000? |
| | | The huge stone heads standing on Easter Island are carved and erected at some time between the sixth and seventeenth century AD | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Leif Ericsson claims to have made landfall at three places in north America, one of which he names Vinland - the land of wine | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The salt mines of the Sahara provide a staple commodity in the African caravan trade | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | Man-eating Caribs move into the islands around the sea named after them - the Caribbean | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The Inca ethnic group migrates into the region of the Cuzco valley in Peru | |
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