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350| 200–700 | Central America [statistics and demography] | The Zapotec site of Monte Albán in Central America is at its peak in this period. It may have had 30,000 or more inhabitants. It is the centre of a complex of public buildings, temples, and dwellings that cover 40 sq km/15 sq mi. | | 339–350 | Roman Empire, Persia, Sassanian Empire, Mesopotamia [wars] | The Roman emperor Constantius hastens to his territory in the East, where a revived Persia under King Shapur II is attacking the Roman province of Mesopotamia. For the next 11 years the two powers engage in a war of border skirmishing with no real victor. | | 341–351 | India, Gupta Empire [administration] | During this decade Samudra Gupta, ruler of the Gupta dynasty, extends his kingdom or his influence over most of India. A pillar found at Allahabad, northeast India, sings his praises. | | 349–350 | Roman Empire [political events] | When Constans, the Western Roman emperor, makes himself extremely unpopular, Gaulish army commander Magnus Magnentius usurps the throne with the support of the military leaders in Rome. Constans flees to Spain, where he is subsequently assassinated. Magnus Magnentius is welcomed in Britain, Spain, Africa, and the rest of Italy, as well as in Gaul. |
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| I left my poor wife big with child, and accepted an advantageous offer made me to be captain of the Adventurer, a stout merchantman of 350 tons: for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship. The Nautilus sank slowly, and rested on the ice at a depth of 350 yards, the depth at which the lower bank was immersed. 99) is here confused with the later
Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, who died 350 B. |