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453| 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. | | 453 | Western Roman Empire, [political events] | After a wedding feast, on his marriage to the German Ildica, King Attila is found dead in bed with a burst blood vessel. His empire is divided between his sons and the Hunnish threat to the Western Roman empire is ended. | | 453 | Europe [births and deaths] | Attila, King of the Huns jointly with his brother Bleda 434–45 and on his own 445–53, who invaded the southern Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire, Greece, Gaul, and Italy, dies (c. 47). |
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