Rise of Cahokia
A Mississippi city grows to 10,000–20,000 people
Around 1050, Cahokia in the Mississippi valley grew into the largest city in North America north of Mexico, with an estimated 10,000–20,000 people. At its heart stood Monks Mound, the largest earthen platform mound on the continent.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1066 Battle of Hastings — 16 years later
- 1066 Halley's Comet over England — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — 13 years earlier
Middle East
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — 25 years earlier
- 1054 East–West Schism — 4 years later
Africa
- c. 1070 The Almoravids found Marrakesh — 20 years later
Asia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — 6 years earlier
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 72)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 47)
- William the Conqueror (aged 22)
- Omar Khayyam (aged 2)
- Henry IV (aged 0)
- Henry I (aged 42)
- Henry III (aged 34)
- Iziaslav I (aged 26)
- Vsevolod I (aged 20)
- Shen Kuo (aged 19)