4th century BC

(5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)\n----\n

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Significant persons 3 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 4 Decades and years

Events

\n* Invasion of the Celts into Ireland\n* Kingdom of Macedon conquers Persian empire\n* Romans build first aqueduct\n* Chinese use bellows

Significant persons

\n* Plato, philosopher (c. 427 - 347 BC).\n*Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.\n* Aristotle, philosopher and scientist (384 - 322 BC).\n* Philip II of Macedon (382 - 336 BC, reigned 359 - 336 BC).\n*Mencius, Chinese philosopher and sage (371 - 289 BC).\n* Shang Yang, Prime Minister of Qin, his reform helped Qin to become the strongest country and later unified China (term 361 - 338 BC).\n* Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, invades Asia Minor, Persia and reaches India (356 - 323 BC, reigned 336 - 323 BC).

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

\n*Oldest Brahmi script dates from this period (Brahmi is the ancestor of Indic scripts)

Decades and years

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