Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World

Chronology by Region 1229

ca. 400 C.E.: The sacred site of Serpent

Mound is created by the Hopewell culture

in present-day Ohio.

ca. 280 C.E.: China is reunifi ed under the

Western Jin Dynasty.

ca. 300–ca. 538: Kofun Period in Japan.

ca. 320: Northern India unifi ed by the

Gupta Dynasty.

ca. 375 C.E.: Stirrups are invented in

China.

ca. 450: The Chinese invent ink, made

from lampblack.

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC THE AMERICAS

313: Emperor Constantine I of Rome

converts to Christianity and declares it the

offi cial religion of the empire.

330: Foundation of Constantinople by

Emperor Constantine I of Rome.

ca. 360: Invasion of Europe by the Huns.

391: Roman emperor Theodosius I makes

Christianity the sole legal religion of the

Roman Empire.

410: Rome besieged by Visigoths under

the command of Alaric.

ca. 430: Angles and Saxons from

Denmark invade the eastern portion of

Britain; the bubonic plague strikes Europe

for the fi rst time.

455: Vandals sack Rome.

476: The Roman Empire falls when the

last of the Roman emperors in the West,

Romulus Augustus, is deposed and not

replaced.

EUROPE

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