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2 days ago · Late 4th century BC: Potassium nitrate manufacturing and military use in the Seleucid Empire. Late 4th century BC: Formal systems by Pāṇini in India, possibly during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya. 4th to 3rd century BC: Zinc production in North-Western India during the Maurya Empire.
3 days ago · Bronze Age, third phase in the development of material culture among the ancient peoples of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, following the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods (Old Stone Age and New Stone Age, respectively). The term also denotes the first period in which metal was used.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- The date at which the Bronze Age began varied with regions; in Greece and China, for instance, it began, before 3000 BCE, whereas in Britain, it di...
- The beginning of the Bronze Age is sometimes called the Chalcolithic (Copper-Stone) Age, referring to the initial use of pure copper. Scarce at fir...
- From about 1000 BCE, the ability to heat and forge another metal, iron, brought the Bronze Age to an end, and led to the beginning of the Iron Age.
- During the 2nd millennium, the use of true bronze greatly increased. The tin deposits at Cornwall, England, were much used and were responsible for...
2 days ago · The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through the fifth century BC. A number of cities and settlements were established, spreading Hellenism in Europe, Africa and Asia during those centuries, reaching a total of 500 — which involved up to 60,000 Greek citizen colonists.
3 days ago · Trevor Bryce reveals the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of it's earliest written records in the third millennium BC until the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the 3-4th century AD.
- Ruth Slagle
- 2020
2 days ago · The Classical period began during the Greco-Persian wars in the 5th century BC and was marked by increased autonomy from the Persian Empire, as well as the flourishing of Ancient Greek democracy, art, theater, literature, and philosophy.
1 day ago · Parthenon, temple that dominates the Acropolis at Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century BCE and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena Parthenos. The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric architectural order.
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3 days ago · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500).
