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Fifth century BC)
(6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events
Significant persons
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Pythagoras of Samos, Greek mathematician. See Pythagorean theorem. (582 - 496 BC).
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Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563 - 483 BC).
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Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism (551 - 479 BC).
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Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525 - 456 BC).
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Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521 - 485 BC).
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Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496 - 406 BC).
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Pericles of Athens, politician (c. 495 - 429 BC).
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian (c. 485 BC).
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Euripides of Athens, playwright (c. 480 - 406 BC).
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Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470 - 399 BC).
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Aristophanes of Athens, playwright (c. 446 - 385 BC).
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Darius II, king of Persia (reigned 423-404)
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Ezra and Nehemiah active in Judea.
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Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Decades and years
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