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410| 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. | | 400–500 | India [chess] | Shaturanga (or chaturanga), ‘the army game’, an ancestor of chess through the Persian game of shatranj (or chatrang), evolves in the Indus Valley on the Indian subcontinent. | | August 410 | Western Roman Empire, Italy [barbarian invasions of Rome (378–476)] | The city of Rome is captured by the Visigoth king Alaric when a slave opens the gates and the Visigoths enter. The city is taken 800 years after its previous fall to the Gauls. The Visigoths spare the churches of St Peter and St Paul. |
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