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10th century

Millennium: 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium - 2nd millennium
Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century
Decades: 900s 910s 920s 930s 940s 950s 960s 970s 980s 990s

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.


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Overview

The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval. In Islamdom, however, it was a cultural zenith, especially in Spain.

Medievalist and historian of technology Lynn White said that "to the modern eye, it is very nearly the darkest of the Dark Ages," but concluded that ". . . if it was dark, it was the darkness of the womb."[1] Similarly, Helen Waddell wrote that the tenth century was that which "in the textbooks disputes with the seventh the bad eminence, the nadir of the human intellect."[2] Even in the fifteenth century, Lorenzo Valla described it as the Century of Lead and Iron.

Events

10th century:This statue of a yogini goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 10th century.
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This statue of a yogini goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 10th century.

Significant people

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Decades and years

890s890891892893894895896897898899
900s900901902903904905906907908909
910s910911912913914915916917918919
920s920921922923924925926927928929
930s930931932933934935936937938939
940s940941942943944945946947948949
950s950951952953954955956957958959
960s960961962963964965966967968969
970s970971972973974975976977978979
980s980981982983984985986987988989
990s990991992993994995996997998999
1000s1000100110021003100410051006100710081009

Notes

  1. ^ Quoted in The Tenth Century: How Dark the Dark Ages?, edited by Robert Sabatine Lopez. Holt, Reinhart and Winston: 1959.
  2. ^ The Wandering Scholars. Constable and Co: London, 1927.

Further reading

Millennium Century
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2nd BC: 20th BC 19th BC 18th BC 17th BC 16th BC 15th BC 14th BC 13th BC 12th BC 11th BC
1st BC: 10th BC 9th BC 8th BC 7th BC 6th BC 5th BC 4th BC 3rd BC 2nd BC 1st BC
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2nd: 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
3rd: 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th
4th: 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th

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