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The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD 1 356 182.5 – 1 721 425.5 [1]). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
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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.
1492: Christopher Columbus sails in search of a new route to India and lands in the Caribbean, leading to the first European contact in the Americas since the Norse colonization of North America 500 years earlier. 1497: Italian navigator John Cabot sails from England to Newfoundland.
second half of 1st millennium BC — The Lo Shu Square, the unique normal magic square of order three, was discovered in China. c. 400 BC — Jaina mathematicians in India write the “Surya Prajinapti”, a mathematical text which classifies all numbers into three sets: enumerable, innumerable and infinite.
There are year-numbering systems that differ from the Christian timeline only in BC part (one example is Anterior Epoch proposed by E.R. Hope in 1963), meaning it is still useful to have detectable BC/BCE dates even if we don't also detect and convert AD/CE dates.
c. 3500–2500 BCE End of 4th millennium BCE, beginning of 3rd millennium BCE. Beginning of Bronze Age. Mound building starts in North America. Neolithic decline, perhaps caused by pneumonic plague. [210] Egyptian numeral system invented. Ötzi the Iceman. City of Liangzhu in China. Norte Chico civilization, first known civilization in the ...