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World History Timeline - 500BC
Chinese philosopher Confucius wanders from state to state preaching about morality, the family, and politics. Many of his teachings will be recorded in the Analects.
The Battle of Plataea of 479 B.C. ends the Persian invasion of Greece.
In 458 B.C., Greek playwright Aeschylus completes the Oresteia, a trilogy that tells the story of a family blood feud. The plays will have a great influence on future writers.
Herodotus, the Greek writer known as the father of history, completes his History, circa 449 B.C. The book records the Persian War (490-479 B.C.).
Ictinus and Callicrates finish the Parthenon, located on Athens' Acropolis, in 438 B.C.
The Peloponnesian Wars that pit Sparta against Athens begin in 432 B.C.
In 431 B.C., the Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors- blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief which dominates medical thinking for centuries.
In 429 B.C., plague kills over one-third of the population of Athens. Morale in the city, where people are engaging in, among other things, excessive drinking and lewd behavior, is low.
Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, pioneers the field of modern medicine circa 429 B.C. by studying anatomy and physiology and by expanding medical vocabulary to include words such as chronic, crisis, convalescence, relapse,and exacerbate.
The Greek playwright Sophocles finishes his Oedipus Rex around 424 B.C.
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