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493| 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. 493 | Italy [wars] | The Ostrogoth king Theodoric invites Odoacer, King of Italy (whom he defeated in 489), and his son to a peace treaty and feast at Ravenna, where he assassinates them. Theodoric extends his realm to the western Balkans and to Sicily and settles down as a king with nominal subordination to the Eastern Roman emperor at Constantinople. Cassiodorus, the historian, becomes his secretary (probably at a fairly early age, although his date of birth is unknown). |
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