Year
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Description
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Answer
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404 BC
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The Peloponnesian War ends with a victory of this city-state
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Sparta
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c. 425 BC
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This tragedy where the protagonist kills his father and marries his mother is completed
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Oedipus Rex
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429 BC
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This statesman who preserved Athenian democracy dies
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Pericles
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438 BC
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This famous building on top of the Athenian acropolis is completed
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Parthenon
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c. 440 BC
|
This "Father of History" writes the Histories
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Herodotus
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c. 440 BC
|
This theory about parts that are "indivisible" is published
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Atomic theory
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465 BC
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The death of this king who lashed the sea (his name starts with X)
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Xerxes I
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c. 470 BC
|
This Carthaginian navigator reaches present-day Cameroon
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Hanno the Navigator
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490 BC
|
The messenger Pheidippides runs from this city 42.195 km (26.219 mi) until he reaches Athens
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Marathon
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c. 500 BC
|
The Sinhalese people begin to settle on this island
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Sri Lanka
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509 BC
|
This city becomes a republic
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Rome
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519 BC
|
This Roman patrician (after whom a Ohio city was named) is born
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L. Q. Cincinnatus
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c. 528 BC
|
This man, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, reaches perfect enlightenment
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Buddha
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c. 530 BC
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He states: a2 + b2 = c2
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Pythagoras
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539 BC
|
This Middle Eastern city falls and becomes a Persian colony
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Babylon
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551 BC
|
This Chinese teacher and founder of a religion is born
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Confucius
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562 BC
|
This long-reigning Neo-Babylonian king (mentioned in the Book of Daniel) dies
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Nebuchadnezzar II
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c. 580 BC
|
This mathematician states that every angle on a semi-circle is orthogonal
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Thales
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586/587 BC
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This city is besieged by the Babylonians, simultaneously the end of Judah
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Jerusalem
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599 BC
|
Mahavira, founder of this Indian religion, is born
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Jainism
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6th century BC
|
This Greek storyteller writes and tells his Fables
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Aesop
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6th century BC
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The culture of this Tuscan tribe reaches its climax
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Etruscans
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Nominated
I know his name in French: Nabuchodonosor (which I always thought sounded like a dinosaur) - but the English escapes me every time!