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Continuity And Changes In The Year 453 Essay
In the year 394 the Roman Emperor Theodosius canceled the Olympic games, which started in ancient Greece in 776 BC and were held every four years to celebrate and honor the Greek god Zeus. The Roman Emperor canceled the games because he said that they were against Christianity. Little did he know that the Olympic Games would one day be held all over the world with many Christians and people of all faiths participating.

In the year 453 a famous Hun warrior named Attila decided to conquer the whole world with his great army, which included a half of a million soldiers, but on the night of his marriage and after drinking, and partying he went to sleep and never woke up again.

In the year 986 a Viking explorer named Bjarni was actually the first person to discover America (Canada), but decided not to get off his boat and
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Soccer was played with hundreds of players on each side of a road or field. The king put soccer players in prison if they did not obey his order.

In the year 1582, on October 4th, when people in Europe went to bed that night, they woke up 10 days later. What happened was that there was a problem with the calendar and Pope Gregory the 8th had to take ten days off of the calendar. So, people woke up the next day, which was changed to October 15th.

In the year 1620 the Pilgrims decided to get off their boat, the Mayflower, in the state of Massachusetts. They were headed for Virginia, but changed their plans because they ran out of beer to drink and decided to build a colony at Plymouth Rock so that they could start a brew house where beer could be made right away.

In the year 1822 a British mathematician named Babbage designed the first mechanical calculator-computer for adding and subtracting numbers called the “difference engine”. It was like a train and was designed to operate with steam, and took 10 years to build just one part of the

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