1st_millenium_BC

1st millenium BC - Definition and Overview

(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium AD – other millennia)

Contents

2 Significant persons

3 Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

4 Cultural landmarks

5 Centuries and Decades

Events

The Iron Age began in 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
Gautama Buddha, Hindu prince, founder of Buddhism
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 mathemetician
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 develop and propagate the alphabet

Cultural landmarks

Centuries and Decades

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