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

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, king of Israel
  • Buddha, founder of Buddhism
  • Confucius, Chinese philosopher
  • Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
  • Socrates,Greek Philosopher
  • Plato, Greek philosopher
  • Pythagoras, Greek mathemetician
  • Alexander the Great, Greek conqueror (4th century BC)
  • Archimedes, scientist
  • Euclid, Alexandrian mathematician
  • Julius Caesar, Roman conqueror and dictator

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

  • Iron use becomes widespread
  • Philosophy
  • Buoyancy principle is discovered
  • Geometry is developed
  • Pythagorean theorem is discovered
  • Eratosthenes proves that the earth is a sphere and estimates its diameter.

Centuries and Decades

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