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Events in 1000 3

• 830 – 1000 Archimedes' works preserved by Islamic scholars Arabic translations keep his mathematics alive During the Islamic Golden Age (8th–12th centuries), scholars at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad translated Archimedes' surviving works into Arabic, preserving them when the original Greek manuscripts were crumbling or lost. Al-Khwarizmi, Thabit ibn Qurra, and other Islamic mathematicians studied and extended his methods. Without these translations, Archimedes' work might have been entirely lost to the West.
• 1000 Chichén Itzá dominates Yucatán Yucatán, Mexico El Castillo, the great ballcourt — the largest in Mesoamerica — and the Sacred Cenote made it the most powerful city in the peninsula, and a pilgrimage centre drawing offerings from as far as Costa Rica.
• 1000 – present Lake Geneva Lac Léman One of the largest lakes in Western Europe, shared between Switzerland and France.