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799| 799 | Central America [everyday life] | The last monuments are erected at the Mayan city of Palenque in Mesoamerica (the area of the Mexican and Mayan civilizations): it is abandoned soon afterwards, marking the beginning of the decline of the Classic Maya civilization. The causes of the decline are unknown but the most likely explanation is that soil exhaustion caused by overcultivation leads to the collapse of agriculture. | | c. 799 | India [philosophy] | Shankara, the Brahman philosopher and theologian, is active in this period. An exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school, he writes commentaries on the Upanishads, Hindu philosophical writings, which affirm his belief in an everlasting and unchanging reality. |
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