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7th Century general Khalid bin al-Waleed swallowed poison to demonstrate how much of a hard-ass he was. Instantly shrugging it off because he'd built up resistance since childhood, his enemy immediately surrendered.

The longest lasting construction project, the Corinth Canal. Dividing the Peloponnese peninsula and mainland Greece, it was first proposed as far back as the 7th century B.C.E., and was officially started by Nero in 67 C.E., but due to complications it was not finished until the 1890s.

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  1. About Greek Fire. An incendiary weapon developed by the Byzantines in the 7th century, it was deployed on ships, and in handheld tubes, operating similar to a flamethrower. Water didn’t extinguish it. Its precise chemical composition is still unknown.

  2. Greek Fire, fire that was almost impossible to put out and generally used to attack ships, was created in the 7th century but its recipe has been lost to history and we still aren't completely sure what it was made of.

  3. There was a major rival to Christianity between the 3rd and 7th century known as Manichaeism that followed a prophet who was crucified

  4. Rabbits weren't domesticated until the 7th century AD, and that the reason they were domesticated is that the Catholic church ruled that fetal rabbits were a type of fish and therefore OK to eat during Lent.

  5. About a small lake in the Himalayas where hundreds human skeletons were found; while it was originally believed they all died simultaneously, a recent study shows these were several groups genetically different, dating back to 7th century, coming from as far as the Mediterranean

  6. 7th Century General Sayyidina Khalid bin Walid swallowed posion to demonstrate how tough he was. He shrugged it off because he built up a resistance to it since childhood. His enemies immediately surrendered.

  7. Anthony Ashley-Cooper 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a 19th century MP . He was involved in the reforming of insane asylums, responsible for several important child labour laws, and campaigned against the opium trade. As a result of his philanthropy he was known as 'The poor man's Earl'.

  8. The oldest astronomical observatory in Asia, built in the 7th century BC, is situated in Gyeongju, South Korea.

  9. Jupiter's existence was first recorded in the 7th or 8th century BC by Babylonian astronomers.

  10. Petra was captured by Muslims in the 7th century and by the Crusaders in the 12th century.

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Yoga may have begun earlier than the sixth or 7th century BC but most believe it began in the Vedic period (1700-500 BC).

The first temple was destroyed in the 7th century. Reconstruction began in 550 BC. It took about 10 years to rebuild it. Some historians say it was destroyed due to a flood. Others believe it was due to war.

During the 7th century B.C., ancient Roman "vestal virgins" were required to keep their hymens intact as proof of virginity until age 30 or they would be buried alive. - source

The term “draconian” comes from Draco, a 7th century BC Athenian legislator, who replaced the previous legal system of oral laws & blood feuds with a written legal code famous for its harshness (e.g, the death penalty for “stealing a cabbage”)

During the 7th century BC sections of smaller walls were built. Little of the earlier walls remain today, although they served as a starting point for what would eventually become the Great Wall of China.

About the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last king of the Assyrian Empire. It's a collection of over 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the 7th century BC that was discovered in modern day Iraq in 1849. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.

The Indian grammarian Panini who lived sometime between 7th and 5th centuries BCE was the Father of linguistics, his work Aṣṭādhyāyī is the central part of grammar, and by far the most complex

The old English poem ‘Beowulf’ was likely composed in the 7th century in East Anglia, England by descendants of the Geats from modern day Sweden

Locksmiths swear the Baldomeric Oath, an oath about professional ethics modeled after the Hippocratic oath, which was named after the 7th century Saint Baldomerus

Cookies as we know them date to 7th century Persia and made their way to Europe during the Muslim conquest of Spain. Persia was one of the first empires to cultivate sugar, sugar cane itself spread throughout Persia during the reign of Alexander the Great in 327BC.

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The Chinese have solved the cubic equation in the 7th century, 500 years before Europeans mastered the technique in Fibonacci's time.

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Germanic invaders and settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands.

A place called KAFIR KOT that literally translates to "Infidels fortress" is actually an ancient Hindu temple ruins in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that fell under Islamic invasion in 7th century

Zero was recognized in India in 7th century AD. From India it made it way to China and then to Middle East and by the ninth century the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.

Beijing's first walled city existed from the 11th century BC to the 7th century BC. It was a city-state called Ji.

Derinkuyu was a fully functional underground city in Turkey that once sheltered around 20,000 people and was built between the 8th and 7th century B.C.

Originally the Great Wall of China wall was a series of several walls that were eventually joined together. The first were built in the 7th century BC.

A regular fellow poking around with his metal detector in 2009 discovered in a farmer’s field the largest-ever-found stash of 7th century Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork, 3500+ items, most of it war gear, including helmets and sword fittings (photos.)

The Rhodians were conquered by the Arabs in the 7th century A.D. The Arabs dismantled what was left of the Colossus and sold it as scrap metal.

Fireworks were originally invented in 7th century China, where they were believed to ward off evil spirits.

From the 7th Century to the 10th Century Korea was split into a North and South

Bhaskaracharya of Ancient India calculated the exact time required for Earth to orbit around The Sun during the 7th century AD, many centuries before Nicolaus Copernicus was even born.

Charvaka school of materialism, an atheistic Indian philosophical movement with roots in the 7th century BCE

The 7th Century illuminated manuscript, the book of Durrow was dipped into a trough for sick cattle to drink out of, as it was believed to possess curative powers.

There was a slave rebellion called the Zanj Rebellion where East African slaves revolted against their masters. it occured in the 7th Century and took place in Modern Day Iraq.

The Khawarij, a now extinct sect of extreme Islam from the 7th century. In their efforts to push their extreme ideologies, they staged lengthy rebellions against caliphates, including the killing of 4th caliph Ali ibn Abu Thalib

In the 7th Century, a young widow named Zaynab avenged her father and husband by single-handedly killing a powerful Warlord.

The Jägermeister logo represents a 7th century patron saint of hunters, the Bacardi bat is based on the bats found at the family distillery in Cuba, and Johnnie Walker was a master at blending teas and used those skills to create more consistency in Scotch whiskies

Panini, an ancient Indian logician who lived around 4th-7th century BC , described the Sanskrit grammar to such detail that no linguistic work surpassed his until the 19th century AC

Buddhism was one of the major religions in Afghanistan during the pre-Islamic era, first arriving in 305 BC. It started fading-out from the 7th century on when Islam arrived.

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