In Europe, late in the century, the Vikings, seafaring peoples from Scandinavia, begin raiding the coasts of Europe and the Mediterranean, and go on to found several important kingdoms.
In Asia, the Pala Empire is founded in Bengal. The Tang Dynasty reaches its pinnacle under Chinese Emperor Xuanzong. The Nara period begins in Japan.
An Act to limit the immigration of aliens into the United States. The Emergency Quota Act, also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, the Per Centum Law, and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921) restricted immigration into the United States.
People and goods from Mexico move through the transportation infrastructure including roads, sea and air transport to various destinations around the world. Ideas from Mexico move through communication media including the internet, print media and the broadcast media such as television and radio.
<span>The
walls of the Colosseum were crumbling. The
once-magnificent stadium housed scores of filthy taverns. Thieves lurked in the ancient baths. On Capitoline
Hill, the old center of Roman government, vines grew over the benches of the senators. One
humanist lamented that the Roman Forum once the heart of
an empire, had turned into “a neglected desert here the home of pigs and wild deer, and there a vegetable garden.” </span>
