1st millennium BC
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(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – other millennia)
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Events
- The Iron Age spread to Western Europe
- Egypt declined as a major power
- The Tanakh was written
- Buddhism was founded
- Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire (6th century BC)
- Sparta and Athens fought the Peloponnesian War
- Alexander the Great conquered Greece, Egypt, Persia and Afghanistan
- Hellenic Greek culture spread through the Mediterranean
- China was unified under the Qin Dynasty
- Celts invaded Western Europe
- The Roman Republic rose and fell
- Rome and Carthage fought the Punic wars
- The Maya civilisation began
Significant persons
- David, Israelite king
- Homer, Greek poet
- Zoroaster
- Gautama Buddha, Hindu prince, founder of Buddhism
- Mahavira, founder of Jainism
- Lao Tze, Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism
- Confucius, Chinese philosopher
- Pericles, Athenian statesman
- Aeschylus, Greek tragedian
- Sophocles, Greek tragedian
- Euripides, Greek tragedian
- Socrates, Greek Philosopher
- Plato, Greek philosopher
- Aristotle, Greek philosopher
- Pythagoras, Greek mathematician
- Alexander the Great, Greek conqueror (4th century BC)
- Euclid, Alexandrian mathematician
- Archimedes, Greek scientist
- Cicero, Latin orator and philosopher
- Julius Caesar, Roman conqueror and dictator
- Virgil, Latin poet
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- Iron use becomes widespread
- Buoyancy principle is discovered
- Geometry is developed
- Pythagorean theorem proved
- Eratosthenes proves that the earth is a sphere and estimates its diameter.
- The Phoenicians propagate the phonetic alphabet in the Mediterranean
- Many major religious and philosophical viewpoints are created, further explored or codified
Cultural landmarks
Centuries and Decades
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