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.