(6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events:
- Demotic becomes the dominant script of ancient Egypt
- Persians invade Greece twice (Persian Wars)
- Battle of Marathon (490)
- Battle of Salamis (480)
- Athenian empire formed and falls
- Peloponnesian War
- Buddhist monastic university at Nalanda, India established.
- Aeschylus
- Aristophanes
- Euripides
- Darius II, king of Persia(423-404)
- Herodotus
- Mencius, Chinese philosopher
- Pericles of Athens
- Socrates of Athens, philosopher
- Sophocles