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1 Events

2 Significant persons

3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions

4 Decades and years

( 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries)

( 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

1 Events

Demotic becomes the dominant script of ancient Egypt
Persians invade Greece twice ( Persian Wars)
Battle of Marathon ( 490)
Battle of Salamis ( 480)
Athenian empire formed and falls
Peloponnesian WarThe Peloponnesian War was begun in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. The war was documented by Thucydides, an Athenian general, in his work History of the Peloponnesian War''. The war lasted
Buddhist monastic university at NalandaNalanda is a place in central Bihar, India, 90km south-east of the state capital of Patna. It is not inhabited now, and the nearest habitation is a village called Badgaon. It is important to the history of India, and that of Buddhism. The famous Nalanda U, IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy. established.

2 Significant persons

PythagorasPythagoras ( 582 BC 496 BC, Greek: Πυθαγρας) was an Ionian mathematician and philosopher, known best for formulating the Pythagorean theorem. Pythagoras, known as "the father of numbers", made influential cont of SamosSamos ( Greek Σαμος) is an island in southeastern Greece in the Aegean Sea, near the coast of Turkey. It is located between the island of Chios to the North and the Dodecanese Islands to the South. Products include tobacco, w, Greek mathematician. See Pythagorean Theorem ( 582 - 496 BC).
Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563 - 483 BC).
Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism ( 551 - 479 BC).
Aeschylus of Athens, playwright ( 525 - 456 BC).
Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521 - 485 BC).
Sophocles of Athens, playwright ( 496 - 406 BC).
Pericles of Athens, politician (c. 495 - 429 BC).
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian (c. 485 BC).
Euripides of Athens, playwright (c. 480 - 406 BC).
Socrates of Athens, philosopher ( 470 - 399 BC).
Aristophanes of Athens, playwright (c. 446 - 385 BC).
Darius II, king of Persia (reigned 423- 404)
Ezra and Nehemiah active in Judea.
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.

Cast iron is first used in Wu.

4 Decades and years

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