In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age. There had been some other Viking raids, but according to English Heritage this one was particularly significant, because "it attacked the sacred heart of the Northumbrian kingdom, desecrating ‘the very place where the Christian religion began in our nation’"
Wu Zhao lowered taxes, and increased food production. Also Wu funded public projects and tried to reduce the power of the military in China. Wu also replaced aristocratic military men with scholar-officals.
