1st millennium BC
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD - other millennia)
Events:
- The Iron Age begins in Western Europe
- The Old Testament is written
- The Greeks rise to power and dominate the mediterranian until the rise of Rome
- Peloponnesian War
- Founding of Buddhism
- Beginning of Roman Empire
Significant persons:
- David, king of Israel
- Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon and creates Persia (6th century BC)
- 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 the earth is a sphere and estimates its diameter.
Centuries and Decades