A Museum of World History: 750 BCE to 251 BCE (Level 3: Year to name)

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750 BCE	Homer The author of two of the best-known literary works ever written is born on a Turkish island which is then a part of the Greek empire.
600 BCE	Babylon (Iraq) has a population of 125,000, which makes it the most populous city in the world.
570 BCE	Sappho dies and leaves behind poems that will help her become the best-known female writer in history.
539 BCE	Cyrus II of Persia orders an attack on Babylon and expands the Achaemenid Empire—then the largest in world history.
525 BCE	Pythagoras opens a school in Crotone, Italy.
508 BCE	Cleisthenes helps launch democracy in Athens.
479 BCE	Kong Fuzi dies and his students begin recording his observations.
472 BCE	Aeschylus is 53 when he writes The Persians, the world’s oldest surviving play.
450 BCE	Siddhartha teaches that desire causes suffering.
432 BCE	The Parthenon is built at Pericles's direction.

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430 BCE	Pheidias designs a colossal Zeus for the Temple in Olympia.
430 BCE	Herodotus writes Histories.
429 BCE	Sophocles is 67 when he writes Oedipus Tyrannus.
423 BCE	Aristophanes is 23 when he writes The Clouds.
415 BCE	Euripedes is 65 when he writes The Trojan Women.
399 BCE	Socrates is 70 when Athens votes to give him the death penalty.
387 BCE	Plato is 40 when he opens the Academy.
335 BCE	Aristotle is 49 when he opens the Lyceum.
331 BCE	Alexander commands the armies that defeat the armies of King Darius III at Gaugamela and take control of Persia.
300 BCE	Euclid writes The Elements.

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