First Millenium AD
Contents
±0-100 AD
Plays of Seneca Caligula and Nero rule Rome. Destruction of Jerusalem. Buddhism migrates from India to China. The Roman Empire extends to Scotland. Birth of Christ. Boreholes 2000 feet deep drilled in salt mines at Szechwan, China. Paper invented in China. Early Mayan style temples and pyramids in Uaxatún and Tikal, Maya Region. First library in Rome.
±100-200AD
The Circensian Games evolve. Astronomical instruments enable prediction of eclipses and the water clock and writing paper developed in China. Ptolemy: Geographica, Galenus: Diversity of Temperaments. The Pantheon built. Romans explore China. Germanic invasions of the Roman Empire. Hadrian becomes emperor of Rome. Jewish insurrection in Egypt.
570-622
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh (or Mohammed) born in Mecca in 570 and goes on to establish the Islam as the dominant and uniting religion in the Arabian world by 632. The year of 622 becomes the first year of the Islamic calendar.
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