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---- The century begins on January 1st 401 and finishes the December 31st 500.

Events

America

• Beginning of the Culture of Marajoara on the island of the Marajó, with the mouth of the the Amazon, one of the oldest powerful principalities of the Amazonia (400-1300).
• Worship of the ancestors, organized around the mummies of the chiefs in Amazonia; anthropomorphic funeral urns.

Black Africa

• First cities in sub-Saharan Africa (Djenné-Djenno). Djenné-Djenno is then a center of regional, important trade of and the stone iron ore of grinding stone and exporting food (fish and cereals) towards the new cities on the fringes of the desert.
• Towards or the 6th century, a population controlling iron settles between the Zambezi and the Limpopo. These minors rhodésiens would come from north, perhaps of the area of Méroé and the south of the kingdom of Aksoum. They exploit gold, copper and tin. One raised until now approximately 60.000 mining in this area. This civilization is the ancestor of that of Zimbabwe, which will take a great extension as from the 10th century.
• Village of Broederstroom, in the west of Pretoria in South Africa.

Central Asia

• Turks Tujue (You or-kiue) in the Altaï.
• Constitution of the Empire Avar (Ruanruan or Jouan Jouan) of the Korea to the Irtych.

East Asia

• Apogee of the kingdom of Koguryŏ (Korea) under the reigns of Kwanggaet' O Wang the Large one and of his/her son Changsu Wang.
• royal Tombs of Silla and Koguryo in Korea.
• Kingdom of Yamato to the Japan. The clan of the Yamato dominates the area of Nara, in the center of the Honshū and radiates in the south and towards the coasts of the sea of Japan.
• the Japan enters the historical age thanks to the introduction of the writing come from China and of the first elements of civilizations via the Korea. Original division in many principalities is gradually reduced to the profit to be able it of the emperors ( tennō ) of divine origin (towards 520).
• According to the tradition, the brâhmane Kaundiya arrives at the Funan (Southern Vietnam). After having subjected thanks to a magic arc the girl of a king-snake (nâga), it marries it and east chooses as king by the people. It changes the laws according to the Indian regulations.
• Birth of the Buddhist Pagoda Chinese starting from the Stûpa of Central Asia in the shape of turns (evolution observed in decorations of the caves of the Yungang).

Southeast Asia

• the State known by the sources Chinese under the name of Funan, where the sivaïsme is religion of State, follows an expansionist policy towards interior grounds, before falling in the middle of the 6th century under hegemony from the vassal State consolidated from Zhen it (or Chen It).
• Appearance of political entities in the west of the archipelago Indonesia N: commercial maritime States of the coasts and the estuaries of Sumatra, the north of Java (Tarumanagara), of Borneo (Kutai) and of Célèbes. Adoption of cultural models (writing Pallava, language Sanskrit E, Buddhism, Hindouisme) and political Indians.
• the Buddhist pilgrim Chinese Faxian (F Hien) visit the islands of the Probe at the beginning of the century.

India

• First migrations of the Rroms of the north of India. They speak an Hindi dialect of Indo-European origin.
• epic Drafting of the poem Sanskrit of the Râmâyana (on texts going back to fourth century BC, allotted to Valmiki), telling the adventures of Rāma, seeking its Sita wife removed by the demon with ten Ravana heads, king de Lanka. It starts against him a terrible war with the assistance of the monkeys directed by their Hanuman general as well as all animals.
• Life of the thinker Bhartrihari.
• Tolkâppiyam, treated tamoul of grammar.

Oceania

The Polynésiens reach Tahiti and the islands of the Company, the Easter Island and the islands Hawaii.

Western Europe

• Maximum

  glacial attested by the peat bog of the glacier of Fernau (the Tyrol), between 400 and 750.

• 395: There has from now on two Roman Empires; confirmation in 410: at the time of the Bag of Rome, Constantinople does not intervene.
• the Visigoths are established in Gaulle southernmost (410 - 415)
• For the first time as a Gaulle, a sanctuary marial is drawn up on the edges of the the Garonne, Sainte-Marie of Toulouse (capital of the Visigoths). The church was then called the Sea-bream because it was covered with mosaics at gold bottom representing of the scenes of the Ancien and the New Testament. Of form décagonale and decorated with mosaics, the primitive building recalls constructions of Rome, Ravenne and the East.
• the alchemists start to seek the Philosopher's stone.
• the druidic tradition tends to disappear in Gaulle in front of the Gallo-Roman culture and the Christian religion.
• Collapse of the financial system in the Western Empire.
• Time of the “Great migrations” (400-600) or age of old Germanic iron. Great migratory Germanic flows gain an important part of continental Europe, in the west and the south. It may be that the principal starting zones are Scandinavia, which suggests toponymy (Goths, Vandales, Suèves, Burgondes). Germanic elements based in Germany of North and with the Denmark (Angles, Saxon Jutes and ) migrate towards British Isles between the {{mini IIIe}} and the 7th century.
• the Great Britain is invaded gradually by the Pictes, the Gaëls, the Angles and the Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons found seven kingdoms (Heptarchie) in Great Britain of at the 11th century: Essex ({{mini Life}}), East Anglia ({{mini Life}}), Kent (), Mercie (fine {{mini Life}}), Northumbrie (), Sussex, Wessex (fine).
• the Scots emigrate of Ireland towards the North-West of the Scotland and found the kingdom of Dalriada (Argyll).
• the Ireland is divided into seven kingdoms under the aegis of a supreme king to the theoretical authority (laughed Ard Érenn).
• Scandinavia: Construction of cities or fortresses refuges (tilflugtsborg) in the islands of Gotland, Öland or Bornholm, perhaps at the origin of a new political organization and social around a basic territorial unit occupied by the same clan or ethnos group (bygd).
• archeology notes a considerable rarefaction of the lucky finds to the Denmark at the end of the age of iron and the beginning of the great migrations. The Scandinavian peninsula and particularly the Sweden seem to have been rich at this same time, and of the considerable treasures were discovered, like that of Tureholm (Roman or Byzantine gold coins, collar in solid gold, medallions, fibules and bractéates). Perhaps the hiding of these richnesses testifies to the insecurity of the time. In addition fortresses are built or re-occupied on the coasts and the islands of the Baltic, without one being able to determine the nature of the danger which justified their construction.
• Tumuli funerary of Old the Uppsala in Sweden, probably burials of the chiefs of the first kingdoms.
• pagan Cemetery of Lidholm Höje (Denmark), used from 400 to 1000, containing several hundreds of tombs with cremation in stone enclosures in the shape of boat.
• runic Inscriptions on the gold horns of Gallehus, probably coming from Jylland.
• Appearance of the animalist decorative style in Scandinavia. The first engravings on rock on the island of Gotland. This art will open out at the 8th century.

Eastern Europe

• Publication in 438 of the Code théodosien, which gathers all the imperial laws issued since Constantin Ier Large the.

• Of the Western tribes Slaves (Polanes, Vislanes, Slézanes, Poméranie NS, Mazovie NS) is established in the east of the Oder, between Baltique and Carpates (Polanes around Gniezno, Vislanes around Cracow). The Slavic migrations push back towards north the Baltic people.

• the historian of Tarragone Paul Orose mentions Vislanes in the east of the Moravie. The area is rich in iron ores and present an important crossroads on the road towards the Dniestr, Kiev and the Black Sea.

Significant characters

• Martianus Capella, at the origin of the Liberal arts,

• Holy Augustin (354 - 430), bishop of Hippone, Philosopher, Theologist,
• Holy Patrick (389 - 461), evangelist of Ireland,
• Attila, chief of the Huns of 434 with 453,
• Saint Remi (437 -532), bishop of Rheims.
• Jean Cassien (between 350 and 360 - between 433 and 458), saint of the orthodoxe Church, theorist of the monachism.

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