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General

Population: Between 190 and 230 million*

• Technology: First paddle-wheel boats with animal whim-drive made
• Deaths: Byzantine Emperor Justin I

Europe

• England: Saxon kingdoms of Essex and Middlesex started
• Wales: Famine in north

Middle East

• Byzantine Empire: Death of Justin I the Byzantine emperor, nephew Justinian I the Great begins and he tries to reunite E and W churches
  Wife and former dancer and prostitute Theodora named co-emperor (like Evita)
  Construction started on Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
  End of the Eastern Roman empire
• Palestine: Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem rebuilt