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The Mayan city Teotihuacan in Mexico is destroyed and the seat of power shifts to southern Mexico.
Marwan II, last of the Umayyad rulers, is defeated by the Abbasids at the Battle of Great Zab. Abu al-'Abbas as-Saffah becomes caliph (establishing the Abbasid dynasty), murders Umayyad leaders, and moves the capital to Baghdad.
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