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The first millennium BC is the formative period of the classical world religions, with the development of early Judaism and Zoroastrianism in the Near East, and Vedic religion and Vedanta, Jainism and Buddhism in India. Early literature develops in Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tamil and Chinese.
Late 4th millennium BC: Sumerian cuneiform writing system [1] [2] and Egyptian hieroglyphs are first used; 3200 BC: Cycladic culture in Greece. 3200 BC: Caral–Supe civilization begins in Peru. 3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran. 3200 BC: Skara Brae is built in Scotland. 3100 BC: First Dynasty of Egypt. [3] c. 3000 BC ...
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The first millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1 to 1000 (1st to 10th centuries; in astronomy: JD 1 721 425.5 – 2 086 667.5 [1]). The world population rose more slowly than during the preceding millennium , from about 200 million in the year 1 to about 300 million in the year 1000.
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The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Classical antiquity – Broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome ...
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of ... 3500 BC: Probable first domestication of the ... Late 4th millennium BC: Writing – in ...