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( 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC - other centuries)( 600s BC - 590s BC - 580s BC - 570s BC - 560s BC - 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - other decades)
( 2nd millennium BC3rd millennium BC 2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC other millennia) Events Second dynasty of Babylon First Bantu migrations from west Africa Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia ( 1900 BC) Civilization in Palestine ( 1800 BC) Middle Kingdom in Egypt ( 2052 - 1st millennium BC2nd millennium BC 1st millennium BC 1st millennium AD other millennia) Events The Iron Age began in Western Europe Egypt declined as a major power The Tanakh was written Buddhism was founded Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire - 1st millennium AD)
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2 Significant persons
- Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet (c. 640- 555 BC).
- Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece ( 638 - 558 BC).
- Thales, Greek mathematician ( 635 - 543 BC). Predicts solar eclipse in 585 BC.
- Pythagoras of Samos, Greek mathematician. See Pythagorean Theorem ( 582 - 496 BC).
- Cyrus the Great, king of Persia ( 576 - 529 BC, reigned 559 - 529 BC).
- Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563 - 483 BC).
- Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism ( 551 - 479 BC).
- Aeschylus of Athens, playwright ( 525 - 456 BC).
- Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521 - 485 BC).
- Lehi, first prophet recorded in the Book of Mormon
