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476| 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. | | c. 460–c. 477 | India [Buddhism] | Most of the 30 caves at Ajanta in Central India are completed during this time. Cut into the volcanic rock and elaborately carved and painted, they form the richest surviving Buddhist complex in India. | | 476 | Western Roman Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Italy [barbarian invasions of Rome (378–476)] | More Germanic tribes invade Italy, and in Rome the emperor Romulus Augustulus resigns his throne to their general, Odoacer. Odoacer agrees to become king of Italy while Zeno of Constantinople becomes emperor of the nominally re-combined Eastern and Western Roman empires. | | 476 | Roman Empire, Africa [diplomacy] | The Roman emperor Zeno makes an agreement with the Vandal king Genseric, formally recognizing the Vandal kingdom as including the Roman province of Africa, the Balearic Isles, Pithecusae, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. Genseric gives Sicily, with the exception of the city of Lilybaeum, to Odoacer, the Germanic king of Italy, in return for tribute. |
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