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869 CE

This year falls in the Early Middle Ages (c. 500–1000 CE). In western Europe new kingdoms replace the western Roman Empire, while the Byzantine Empire continues in the east. Islam begins in Arabia in the seventh century and its caliphates soon reach from Spain to Central Asia, and China is reunited under the Sui and Tang dynasties.

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Philosopher · Early Middle Ages · KazakhstanAl Farabic. 872–c. 950Turkic born Islamic philosopher from Farab, in modern Kazakhstan, who worked at Baghdad and died at Damascus. Called the Second Teacher, after Aristotle, he joined Greek logic to Islamic political thought. He lived about 872 to 950.