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40th century BC. During the 40th century BC, the Eastern Mediterranean region was in the Chalcolithic period (Copper Age), transitional between the Stone and the Bronze Ages. Northwestern Europe was in the Neolithic. China was dominated by the Neolithic Yangshao culture.
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline.
Mar 25, 2024 · The fifth century (499-400 BCE) in particular is renowned as The Golden Age of Greece. This was the sophisticated era of the polis, or individual City-State, and early democracy. Some of the world's finest art, poetry, drama, architecture, and philosophy originated in Athens.
- Claudia Conklin
- 2009
Oct 4, 2016 · The Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE) is considered ancient Egypt's Classical Age during which it produced some of its greatest works of art and literature. Scholars...
- Joshua J. Mark
Dec 9, 2023 · BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) are secular equivalents to BC and AD. BCE refers to the time before the Common Era, while CE denotes the time after it.
Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.
The period fostered the development of the Greek alphabet as well as a flowering of literature in the hands of poets such as Homer, author of the Iliad and Odyssey, and Archilochus, who introduced elegy and personal lyric poetry. black-figure pottery.