Ancient World
Theodoric the Great (493-526): The Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy
Theodoric gave Italy three decades of stable Gothic-Roman rule, but his kingdom fell to Justinian's armies within thirty years of his death.
Era · c. 3000 BC – AD 500
Ancient World
The first cities, empires and written records, from the pyramids of Egypt to Greece and the Roman Empire.
Ancient World
Aryabhata and the Aryabhatiya (AD 499): Indian Astronomy
A concise Sanskrit treatise that shaped Indian mathematics and astronomy for a thousand years and reached the Islamic world.