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10th century

10th century: c. 900 - c. 1000  

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Timeline
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2012
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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
With the end of iconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches
11th century

11th century: c. 1000 - 1100  

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Timeline
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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized
12th century

12th century: c. 1100 - c. 1200  

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Timeline
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2012
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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The Assassins, a sect of Nizari Ismailis, begin to acquire strongholds in Persia
13th century

13th century: c. 1200 - c. 1300  

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The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host
14th century

14th century: c. 1300 - c. 1400  

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Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals
15th century

15th century: c. 1400 - c. 1500  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers
16th century

16th century: c. 1500 - 1600  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders
1st century CE

1st century CE: c. 10 BCE - c. 100  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The period of stability achieved during the reign of Augustus Caesar has been given the name Pax Romana ('Roman peace')
2nd century

2nd century: c. 100 - c. 200  

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History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
A naturalistic style of Buddhist sculpture develops in the Gandhara region, part of modern Pakistan
3rd century

3rd century: c. 200 - c. 300  

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Timeline
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2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The potato is cultivated in the Peruvian Andes

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