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Contents
1 Events
2 Significant persons
3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions
4 Decades and years
Events
The
Sassanid
dynasty of
Persia
launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. (230 - 232 AD).
Crisis of the Third Century
shakes
Roman Empire
Emperor Valerian I
is taken captive by the
Persian
King of Kings
Shapur I
. (260 AD).
End of
Yayoi
era and beginning of
Kofun
period, the first part of the
Yamato period
in
Japan
.
Sarnath
becomes a center of
Buddhist
arts in
India
Diffusion of
maize
as a food crop from
Mexico
into
North America
begins
Four
bishoprics
are established in Mauretania Tingitania .
The Kingdom of
Funan
reaches its zenith under the rule of Fan Shih-man .
Significant persons
Diocletian
,
Roman
emperor
Plotinus
, c.
204
-
270
Constantine
, first
Roman Emperor
to convert to
Christianity
(c.
312
CE)
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
A primitive form of
glasses
were developed for a nearsighted princess in
Syria
.
Decades and years
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