History
 

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World

General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*
  • Technology: First paddle-wheel boats with animal whim-drive made
  • Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Justin I

Europe

  • England: Saxon kingdoms of Essex and Middlesex started
  • Wales: Famine in north

Middle East

  • Byzantine Empire: Death of Justin I the Byzantine emperor, nephew Justinian I the Great begins and he tries to reunite E and W churches
    Wife and former dancer and prostitute Theodora named co-emperor (like Evita)
    Construction started on Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
    End of the Eastern Roman empire
  • Palestine: Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem rebuilt



 
 
 
 
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