TEXT HISTORY
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WORLD HISTORY
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400 AD
The earliest known illustrated Chinese scrolls are used to teach moral lessons. |
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405 AD
The Latin Vulgate is completed and Jerome spends the next 15 years of his life writing commentaries about why he chose to translate words or phrases the way he did. The Vulgate becomes, for many centuries, the only Christian Bible available with an Old Testament translated from Hebrew, rather than the Septuagint. |
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410 AD
St. Augustine writes The City of God. |
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438 AD
The Codex Theodosianus is compiled as the law of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors that had lived since 312 AD. In it, pagan schools, temples, and games were forbidden. |
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450 AD
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Anglo-Saxons find their way to Britain and take residence.
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476 AD
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Traditional date for the fall of Rome based on the deposition by Odoacer of Romulus Augustus, last of the western Roman emperors.
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At this point, Odoacer opts to permit the Byzantine leadership in the east to remain enthroned under Zeno in Constantinople. The Visigoths, having dominated much of the mid-to-late 5th century, begin to take over the Roman Empire.
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