The ^first millennium BC. BC started on January ¹ 1000 BC. BC and ended on 31 December 1 BC. BC in the proleptic Julian calendar.

Highlights

• Since the millennium, thermal subatlantic recession that continues today.

Africa

• Most populations of the African Sahara reach approximately the regions they now occupy:
  • The nomadic Tubu (or Tibou) from a crossbreeding between pastors' Bovidians ngrides East and South are installed in the Tibesti East.
  • The Garamantes , some of which are the ancestors of the Tuareg today, nomads in the central Sahara. Their capital, Garama ( Djerma ) is in the Fezzan. They criss-cross the Sahara in chariots pulled by four horses and mediate between the black world and the Mediterranean world by way of the tanks, which leaves Gao , loin of Adrar Iforas Tanezrouft, Ilezi in the Tassili of Ajjers, then splits into two sections, one to Sabratha by Cidamus ( Ghadames ), the other to Leptis via Garama Sokna and starting point of the road Siwa and of Egypt.
  • Practice of copper smelting in the Ar.
  • The use of the plow wins the Ethiopian North.
  • Introduction of domestic sheep and cattle in the extreme south-western Africa.

• Around 912-952 BC the calendar begins Amazigh . ^Americas
  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD :
    • Civilization Adena in the woodlands of the eastern United States - the Ohio , the Kentucky , the Indiana , the Pennsylvania and West Virginia - ( -1000 / -100 ). Rich mounds surrounding berms.
    • In the Andes Central and South America, major companies are developing.
  • Around the year 900 BC. AD :
    • Beginnings of the civilization of Chavin (former horizon) in the Andes.
    • Destruction of the site of San Lorenzo ( Mexico ). La Venta became the main Mesoamerican Olmec ceremonial center ( 900 BC. / 400 BC. ). The Olmecs establish trade relations to procure raw materials: basalt, obsidian, cinnabar, serpentine, jade and gold. The cult of man-jaguar implies the existence of priests.
    • The site of "La Venta" replaces the "San Lorenzo" as the main ceremonial center of the Olmec in Mesoamerica.
  • Around the year 800 BC. AD :
    • Culture Zapothques knows the first writing of the Americas.
    • Introduction of intensive cultivation of maize in alluvial plains of the Amazon , which will enable the development of communities and many more highly prioritized.
    • Beginning of the culture Dorset in Greenland and north-eastern Canada ( -800 - 1000 ).
  • Around the year 500 BC. AD : First hieroglyphics to Oaxaca (Monte Albn site).
  • Around the year 400 BC. AD : Fulfillment of the Chavin culture of Huantar in Peru.
  • Around the year 310 BC. AD : In forest areas of North America, development of the Hopewell culture , characterized by large graves, for the organization and leadership by developing a network of long-distance communication.
  • Around the year 300 BC. AD : The characteristic features of the Maya civilization are in place, with ceremonial centers and a writing system.
  • Around the year 200 BC. AD : Rise of the Nazca civilization on the southern coast of Peru , with huge canals drawing geometric designs and animal in the desert plains.

  Asia

  China

  • Around the year 770 BC. AD , early Dynasty Eastern Zhou. The capital was moved to Luoyang.
  • Beginning of the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy 771 BC. BC until 256 BC. AD
  • The Chinese record solar eclipse , work tools, weapons to 722 BC. BC Dynasty Zhou (end of period western, eastern beginning of the period).
  • Period Spring and Autumn Period 722 BC. BC to 475 BC. AD
  • In the seventh century BC. AD , the hegemons, feudal princes of Qi of Qin , the Chu , the Wu and Yue triumphed in China because they preside over the rites of alliance between cities until ^the seventh century BC. BC , which allows them to impose their domination over the weak.
  • Around the year 550 BC. AD , the production of iron increases and early cast iron.
  • Around the year 500 BC. AD , the beginning of coinage in the form of miniature shovels and knives and bronze.
  • In the year 403 BC. AD , the beginning of the Warring States period , with weapons of bronze and iron fortification of cities.
  • Around the year 350 BC. BC , invented the crossbow.
  • In the year 221 BC. AD : The Dynasty Qin realizes the unification of China. Qin Shi Huangdi , the first emperor built the Great Wall. In 210 BC. AD , it will be buried in a large mound with a whole army of terra cotta, natural size.
  • In the year 206 BC. BC : Beginning of the dynasty of Han. The capital was moved to Chang'an.
  • In the year 119 BC. AD , the iron industry becomes a monopoly.
  • In the year 108 BC. AD , the Chinese took control of the Korean Peninsula, and establish military posts.

  Korea

  • Construction of approximately 30 000 dolmens on virtually the entire period.
  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD , the technique of bronze cast in the Korean peninsula extends from northern China.
  • In ^the seventh century BC. AD , in Korea , immigration of people from Manchuria and North China during the Bronze Age to the ^seventh century BC. AD.
  • Around the year 400 BC. BC , introduced the technique of iron working.
  • In the year 108 BC. AD , the Chinese took control of the Korean Peninsula, and establish military posts.

  India

  • Around the year 1000 BC. BC , peoples Aryans entering Gujarat. The priests dominated society. The caste system appears. It was then that the sacred texts are written in the Hinduism , the Vedas. Started writing the Mahabharata. Beginning of the gray painted pottery and iron objects in the region of the Ganges , until about the year 600 BC. AD.
  • Around the year 900 BC. AD : Sites Aryan Hastinapura , Ahicchatr and Kausambi ( 900 BC. / 600 BC. ). Hastinapura was destroyed by floods. Pottery decorated with gray paint, scrap copper, brick homes.
  • Around the year 770 BC. AD , extensive trade between India and Babylon and expansion of cities and states in the valley of the Ganges , supported by Rice.

  Japan

  • Around the year 500 BC. AD , the beginning of the technique of wet cultivation of rice.

  Central Asia

  • Tagar era ( 700 BC. / 300 BC. ). Permanent establishments (some fortified) of Scythians in the steppe warrior people, rich and powerful armored cavalry with.
  • In ^the seventh century BC. BC , Proto-Turks on the Altai.

  Southeast Asia

  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD , the beginning of the Neolithic culture of the Bronze Age in northern Vietnam (Dong Son era).
  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD , the beginning of the late ceramic Ban Chiang ( Thailand ) geometric patterned red-on-cream, until about the year 650 BC. AD.
  • Around the year 500 BC. BC , northern Vietnam , achieving the bronze drums of Dong Son.
  • Around the year 250 BC. AD , in Vietnam , the first urban site in Co Loa.
  • Around the year 200 BC. AD : Probable date of the use of buffalo as an animal stroke in Southeast Asia.
  • Around the year 100 BC. AD : The Indian religions and philosophies are spreading throughout the South East Asia along the routes.

  Europe

  Main article: Europe in the ^first millennium BC. AD.
  • Ancient Greece :
    • Birth of Athenian democracy : Solon wrote a poem sometimes regarded as the first constitution written in the world , Cleisthenes (Athens) introduces the democracy in Athens.

  Oceania

  • Around the year 1000 BC. JC : Some people Lapita (Polynesian) are documented on the islands Tonga and Samoa.
  • Around the year 200 BC. JC : Some people Lapita settle in the Marquesas Islands.

  Australia

  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD :
    • In south-eastern Australia , are built large villages of round houses made of stone that can reach 700 souls.
    • Exchange network to extend long-distance trade in raw materials and ornaments.
    • In Bora , a kind of stone alignments in mysterious symbolic meaning. Pickings ceremonial and sacred sites, such as painted shelters, combined with "Dreamtime", a sort of golden age. The ceremonies, which bring together hundreds of people, are often associated with the harvesting of certain products such as nuts cycads , which requires preparation (soaking and fermentation) to remove toxic substances it contains, or butterfly bogong, abundant in the district of Snowy Mountains.

  Middle East

  • In Mesopotamia , the axes of the economic age of the iron does not overlap exactly with those of previous two millennia: the Euphrates loses its role had been diminished in ^the second millennium. No major city is more prosperous in the river loop. By cons east-west along the foothills of the Taurus continues to grow in importance and plays a critical role as evidenced by the interest shown in it by constantly Assyrians. This transfer does not come from the fact that agricultural or pastoral soured in Babylonia or in the ancient land of Sumer , but that trade relations with countries in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean known for several centuries a real decline. The center of balance is now in the north, the meeting between the plains and mountains, which provides iron.
  • The Phoenicians became the leading trading power in the Levant. Phoenician sailors through the Straits of Gibraltar (by the year 1000 BC. ).
  • Around the year 1000 BC. AD :
    • the Philistines are contained and repulsed by the Jewish people. The legend of the victory of David over the giant Goliath illustrates the fall of the Philistines.
    • The use of the alphabetic system is generalized to the entire Levant, from Transjordan to the Euphrates , passing through Damascus.
    • In Mesopotamia , the horses become powerful enough to be mounted.
  • Alphabet Aramaic old. It differs only by variants of the Phoenician alphabet. It will be resumed by the Hebrew , the Arabic and Syriac and will be widely disseminated in the Middle East. The Greeks borrow the Phoenician form and allow its distribution in the Mediterranean world and the West.
  • Invention of the catapult seat in Mesopotamia.
  • In 925 BC. BC , founding the kingdom of Judea , which lasted until 587 BC. AD.
  • Around the year 900 BC. AD :
    • Kingdom of Urartu around Lake Van ( Armenia ) (until ^the sixth century BC.. Its power and military strength it can withstand the Assyrian power.
    • Sidon fell under the control of Tyre.
    • Phoenician in Cyprus.
    • Kapara reign, King of Guzan in the Valley Khabur ( Syria ). He built a palace provided a Hilani and decorated with carved orthostats.
    • In 901 BC. BC , King Solomon , son of David, built his temple. But after King Solomon, the separation of the two kingdoms of Judah and Israel is inevitable.
    • Kingdoms Aramaic of Damascus , Aleppo , Arpad , Sam'al , Hama , and Guzan 's website Tell Halaf , bit down on Halupa Khabur, Bit Zamani Amedi with its capital (now Diarbakr). The Chaldeans , neighboring nation, settled in the region of Ur.
  • Around the year 800 BC. AD :
    • In the Steppes of Asia and Europe, the period from the ^eighth to the ^third century BC. BC is generally called Scythian age because of civilization Scythians.
    • Golden age in Armenia.
    • In 789 BC. AD , the city of Nineveh is destroyed.
    • In 745 BC. BC , the Assyrians conquered Damascus.
    • In 721 BC. BC , the Assyrians conquered Samaria and destroying the kingdom of Israel.
  • In ^the seventh century BC. AD :
    • Reign of Achaemenes , king of Persia. The ten tribes Persian leave the region of Lake Urmia and bind in the region that is now Persia (now Fars ).

  Character Highlights

  • Parmenides , a philosopher Presocratic , behind the notion of being as being, forerunner of the ontology and metaphysics ,
  • Solon (640-558 BC.) legislator and poet of Athens , was the origin of the first constitution written in the world , that of Athens, and was estimated to Plato and Aristotle.
  • Cyrus the Great , Emperor of Iran
  • Socrates , Greek philosopher
  • Plato , Greek philosopher
  • Aristotle , Greek philosopher
  • Alexander the Great
  • Hannibal Barca , Carthaginian general
  • Cicero , Roman poet,
  • Virgil , Roman poet,
  • Caesar , Roman dictator.
  • Lao Tzu , Chinese philosopher.
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