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( 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – 2nd millennium – other millennia)
Events:
- Beginning of Christianity and Islam
- London founded by Romans as Londinium
- Diaspora of the Jews
- The Olympic Games observed until 393
- The Library of Alexandria, largest library in the world, burned
- Rise and fall of the Roman Empire
- Germanic kingdoms established in Northern and Western Europe
- Maya civilization at its height
- Three kingdoms in ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute
- The height of Hindu culture in IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy. under the Gupta Dynasty
- Islamic conquest of the Middle EastThe Middle East is a geographical and cultural area comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. The Middle East is a subregion of Afr and North AfricaNorth Africa is the region of the continent of Africa north of the Sahara desert, comprising the Maghreb, including Libya and Egypt, and also by some definitions the Sudan. North Africa is vastly more uniform ethnically than anywhere in Africa south of th
- Viking raids common in northern Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries.
- Beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe
Significant persons:
- Caesar Augustus, Roman emperor
- Jesus Christ, Son of God, namesake of Christianity
- Plutarch, Greek historian
- Paul of Tarsus, Israelite Apostle to the gentiles, created Christianity
- Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper
- Zhang Heng, Chinese astronomer and mathematician
- Ptolemy, Greek astronomer and mathematician
- Constantine I, Roman emperor
- Attila, Hunnic king and warlord
- Muhammad, Prophet of God and founder of Islam
- Charlemagne, Frankish conqeurer and founder of the Holy Roman Empire
- al-Khwarizmi, Persian mathematician
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1st millennium