Beowulf, heroic poem, written in English. In Peru, people begin to cultivate potatoes and corn. Leif Ericsson, heading from Norway to Greenland, is blown off course and discovers North America. Largest of towns that arise in the Mississippi Valley is Cahokia, with a population of 10,000. Gothic cathedrals being built in western Europe.
Arab merchants settle on the east coast of Africa.
City-states there and empires in southern Africa gain wealth and power through trade in gold and salt. Tell us why. Don't forget to include your name, grade, school, town and phone number in your response. Melville, NY 11747-4250. Writer A s we near the sunset of the second millennium and the dawn of the third, it would be interesting to see how far we've come in the past 1,000 years.