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430| 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. | | 430 | Western Roman Empire, Spain, Africa [wars] | The Vandals in Spain, under King Genseric (or Gaiseric), are invited to come to Africa by the Roman governor Boniface, who has quarrelled with the imperial government. The Vandals conquer Roman Africa, helped by a revolt of the Moors and of Donatist Christians. They besiege and take the city of Hippo Regius, killing its bishop, Augustine (later St Augustine). |
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