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| c. 1000 |
| | Buddhist, Hindu and Jain shrines are carved from the rock in the cave temples of Ellora, in India | |
| | Ellora, courtyard Fotofile CG
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| c. 1000 |
| | Turks from Ghazni, raiding into northwest India, renew the pressure of Islam on the subcontinent | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | Warlike tribal groups, calling themselves Rajput and claiming descent from the Aryan warrior caste, are now in Rajasthan | |
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| 1001 |
| | Japanese author Murasaki Shibubi produces, in The Tale of Genji, a book which can be considered the world's first novel | |
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| c. 1010 |
| | Firdausi completes his great chronicle of Persian history, the Shah-nama, which becomes established as Iran's national epic | |
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| c. 1020 |
| | The Persian scholar Avicenna, author of encyclopedic works on philosophy and medicine, spends the last part of his life in Isfahan | |
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| 1025 |
| | Mahmud of Ghazni marches an army across an Indian desert to destroy a great temple at Somnath, killing - it is said - some 50,000 Hindus | |
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| c. 1040 |
| | A Chinese manual on warfare includes the earliest known description of gunpowder | |
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| 1040 |
| | The Seljuk Turks win a victory at Dandanqan, which gives them a base in the north of Iran and Afghanistan | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | The concept of movable type for printing is pioneered in China, using fired clay, but it proves impractical | |
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