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200–700Central 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.
400–500India [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.
449Western Roman Empire, UK [diplomacy]Vortigern, a Welsh king whose authority extends as far east as Kent, invites the Saxons, under their leaders Hengist and Horsa, to settle in Kent, Britain, in order to help him in his struggle with the Picts and Scots.


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Not long thereafter, and probably before the traditional date of 449, the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons began to come in large bands with the deliberate purpose of permanent settlement.
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