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532| 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. | | 532 | Eastern Roman Empire, Persia, Sassanian Empire, Africa [wars] | The Eastern Roman emperor Justinian patches up an expensive peace with Sasanian Persia and plans to send his general Belisarius on the first campaign to fulfil his own great ambition of re-unifying the Roman Empire by taking Africa back from the Vandals. Belisarius is accompanied by the historian Procopius of Caesarea. | | 532 | Byzantine Empire [churches and temples] | The building of the great Church of Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia, is begun in Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey) at the command of the emperor Justinian. It is designed by two mathematicians, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus. |
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