This article is about the single year 1000.

Year 1000 (M) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the proleptic Gregorian calendar, it was a non-leap century year starting on Wednesday (like 1800).

Muslim world

The Islamic world was in its Golden Age; still organised in caliphates, it was still dominated by the Abbasid Caliphate, with the Caliphate of Córdoba to the west, and ongoing campaigns in Africa and in India. Persia was a period of instability, with various polities seceding from Abassid rule, among whom the Ghaznavids would emerge as the most powerful.

Stephen Hawking says we've got about 1,000 years to find a new place to live

"Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years," Hawking said in the speech, according to the Christian Science Monitor. "By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race."

How did people live 1000 years ago?

Well, the year would be 1017, instead of 2017, so around that time era would have been difficult to live in. But, people may have lived like us, except without technology, electricity, and government. When you think back to what you’ve learned in history classes, it makes you wonder the history before the 1700s. In my opinion, the people lived to survive in most settlements.

"The First Human on Earth to Live to Be 1,000 Years Old is Alive Today" (2016 Most Popular)

“The first person to live to be 1,000 years old is certainly alive today …whether they realize it or not, barring accidents and suicide, most people now 40 years or younger can expect to live for centuries,” claims Cambridge University geneticist Aubrey de Grey.