First Millennium Bce

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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 by Siddharta Gautama , commonly known as the Buddha ( 6th Century BC )

Jainism was founded by Mahavira ( 6th Century BC )

Cyrus The Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire ( 6th Century BC )

Sparta and Athens fought the Peloponnesian War

Darius The Great expanded the Persian Empire to its greatest reach, which extended from Greece , down towards Egypt , and east towards Pakistan ( 5th Century BC )

Alexander The Great conquers the Persian Empire ( 4th Century BC )

Hellenic Greek culture spread through the Mediterranean

Chandragupta Maurya founded the Mauryan Empire ( 4th Century BC )

Ashoka The Great expanded the Mauryan Empire to its greatest extent, after conquering most of the Indian Subcontinent along with Afghanistan ( 3rd Century BC )

China was unified under the Qin Dynasty ( 3rd Century BC )

Celts invaded Western Europe

The Roman Republic rose

Rome and Carthage fought the Punic Wars

The Maya Civilisation began

Japan is founded.

SIGNIFICANT PERSONS

David , Israelite king

Zoroaster , founder of Zoroastrianism

Mahavira , founder of Jainism ( 6th Century BC )

Gautama Buddha , Hindu prince, founder of Buddhism ( 6th Century BC )

Lao Zi , Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism ( 6th Century BC )

Confucius , Chinese philosopher ( 6th Century BC )

Cyrus The Great , founder of the Persian Empire ( 6th Century BC )

Darius The Great , ruler of the Persian Empire ( 5th Century BC )

Pānini , Indian Sanskrit Grammarian , world's first known Linguist , considered the father of Computing Machines ( 7th - 4th Century BC )

Homer , Greek poet ( 6th - 3rd Century BC )

Isaiah , Hebrew Prophet

Jeremiah , Hebrew prophet

Ezekiel , Hebrew prophet

Pericles , Athenian statesman

Socrates , Greek philosopher

Plato , Greek philosopher

Aristotle , Greek philosopher

Alexander The Great , Macedonian conqueror ( 4th Century BC )

Chandragupta Maurya , founder of the Mauryan Empire ( 4th Century BC )

Ashoka The Great , ruler of the Mauryan Empire ( 3rd Century BC )

Pingala , Indian mathematician, inventor of the Binary Number System and the concept of Zero

Qin Shihuang , first emperor of China ( 3rd Century BC )

Euclid , Alexandrian mathematician

Archimedes , Greek scientist

Cicero , Latin orator and philosopher

Julius Caesar , Roman conqueror and dictator (c. 100 BC - 44 BC )

Virgil , Latin poet

Emperor Jimmu , the first Japanese Emperor.

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

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