Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Potted History: the BC Years

  • Dinosaurs bite dust 10m BC
  • Lucy 2m BC
  • Cave paintings 50,000 BC
  • Pyramids
  • Confucius
  • Mesopotemians
  • 1500 BC Early Greek civilization
  • Babylonians & Egyptians
  • 1000BC Ionians develop basic geometry, mathematics & astronomy.
  • Euclid
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Etruscans
  • 753 (21.4) Romulus & Remus found Rome.
  • 550 (approx) Buddhism originated in India by Gautama.
  • 479BC Confucius died
  • 323 Death of Alexander the Great, aged 32, after conquoring most of the East.'Living God'. Major influence on Eastern & Western religions.
  • c300 Roman republic
  • 221BC First united Chinese Empire under Qin Shi Huangdi.
  • Cleopatra
  • 49 Roman republic becomes Empire under Julius Ceasar
  • 44 Julius Caesar killed by Brutus
  • 44-31 Triumpherate, Mark Antony. Octavius. Carassis rule empire.
  • 43 BC Cicero, orator, writer + Statesman dies.
  • 31 Gaius Octavius (Caesar Augustus - J.C. nephew) becomes Roman Emperor after defeating Mark Antony at Actium.

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