5th century BC

(6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th 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* Demotic becomes the dominant script of ancient Egypt\n* Persians invade Greece twice (Persian Wars)\n* Battle of Marathon (490)\n* Battle of Salamis (480)\n* Athenian empire formed and falls\n* Peloponnesian War\n* Buddhist monastic university at Nalanda, India established.

Significant persons

\n*Pythagoras of Samos, Greek mathematician. See Pythagorean Theorem (582 - 496 BC).\n*Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism (c. 563 - 483 BC).\n*Confucius, founding figure of Confucianism (551 - 479 BC).\n* Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525 - 456 BC).\n* Darius I, King of Persia (reigned 521 - 485 BC).\n* Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496 - 406 BC).\n* Pericles of Athens, politician (c. 495 - 429 BC).\n* Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian (c. 485 BC).\n*Euripides of Athens, playwright (c. 480 - 406 BC).\n* Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470 - 399 BC).\n*Aristophanes of Athens, playwright (c. 446 - 385 BC).\n* Darius II, king of Persia (reigned 423-404)\n* Ezra and Nehemiah active in Judea.\n*Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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Decades and years

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