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( 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 Greatbust of Alexander the Great Alexander III (late July, 356 BC June 10, 323 BC), King of Macedon ( 336 BC-323 BC), known as Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders of the ancient world. Following the unification of the multipl conquered GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, Egypt, PersiaPersia is the historical name for the state of Iran. The name was used in the West due to the ancient Greek name for Iran, Persis''. Persia is used to describe the nation of Iran, its people, or its ancient empire. The name Persia comes from a province in and AfghanistanAfghanistan ( Dari/ Pashtu: Afgnistn is a country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the
Hellenic Greek culture spread through the Mediterranean
ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute was unified under the Qin DynastyThe Qin Dynasty or Ch'in Dynasty ( Wade-Giles) ( 221 BC 207/ 206 BC) preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. Qin is sometimes spelt as Chin and is a possible origin of the word "China". See also: China in world languages).
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
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
Julius Caesar, Roman conqueror and dictator

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

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

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