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345 CE

This year falls in the Classical antiquity (c. 500 BCE–500 CE). Large empires rule much of Eurasia, among them Persia, the Maurya and Gupta states of India, Han China and Rome. Classical Greece, the spread of Buddhism and the rise of Christianity belong to this era, which ends as the western Roman Empire falls in the fifth century CE.

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Philosopher · Late antiquity · AlgeriaAugustine of Hippo354–430Bishop of Hippo Regius. Author of the Confessions and The City of God. His doctrines of grace, original sin and the two cities shaped Western Christianity.

Civilization · Early Middle Ages · Byzantine EmpireByzantine Empire330–1453The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of Rome, which survived a thousand years after the west fell. Its capital Constantinople was the richest city in Christendom. Ottoman Turks took it in 1453.

Philosopher · Late antiquity · EgyptHypatiac. 355/370–415Mathematician, astronomer and Neoplatonist philosopher who taught in Alexandria. Daughter of Theon of Alexandria. Killed by a Christian mob in March 415.