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4 Cultural landmarks
5 Centuries and decades
6 See also
7 References

The 1st millennium BC encompasses the Iron Age and sees the rise of many successive empires, and spanned from 1000 BC to 1 BC.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire, followed by the Achaemenids. In Greece, Classical Antiquity begins with the colonization of Magna Graecia and peaks with the rise of Hellenism. The close of the millennium sees the rise of the Roman Empire. In South Asia, the Vedic civilization blends into the Maurya Empire. The early Celts dominate Central Europe while Northern Europe is in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The Scythians dominate Central Asia. In China, the Spring and Autumn Period sees the rise of Confucianism. Towards the close of the millennium, the Han Dynasty extends Chinese power towards Central Asia, where it borders on Indo-Greek and Iranian states. Yayoi period in Japanese islands. The Maya civilization rises in Central America, while in Africa, Ancient Egypt begins its decline, rise of the Nubian Empire, and Aksum 's birth. The religions of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism (Vedic religion and Vedanta), Jainism and Buddhism develop. Graeco-Roman Europe, India and China see the rise of literature. World population greatly increases in the course of the millennium, reaching some 170 to 400 million people at its close depending on the estimates used.

Events

The events in this section are organized according to the United Nations geoscheme

Events of the 1st millennium BC Africa America Asia Europe Oceania
10th century BC 1000 BC rise of Nok culture
1000 B.C. decline of Tichit -Walata
1000 Beginning of East/South Bantu expansion 1000 BC rise of Chavín de Huántar in Peru[1]
1000 BC Settlement of Poverty Point, Louisiana reached its height[1] 967 BC Solomon anointed king of Israel
925 BC Judah secedes from Israel 1000 BC Helladic period ended in Ancient Greece
9th century BC 872 BC Nile floods the Temple of Luxor
836 BC Civil war in Egypt
814 BC Carthage founded 900 BC La Venta replaces San Lorenzo (Olmec)[1]
900 BC Rise of Tres Zapotes
850 BC Rise of Zapotec civilization in Mexico[1] 863 BC Bath founded
8th century BC 740 BC Kushite Piye begins reign
727 BC Kush conquers Egypt, 25 dynasty
701 BC Kushites repels Assyrians from Jerusalem 800 BC Kaminaljuyu established (Maya)
800 BC Rise of Adena culture in Ohio[1]
800 BC Beginning of corn cultivation on Amazon flood plain[1] 738 BC Assyria invades Israel
727 BC Babylonia secedes from Assyria
722 BC Israel is conquered by Assyria 800 BC rise of Etruscan civilization
776 BC first Olympiad
753 BC Rome founded
7th Century BC 700 BC Pre-Aksumite
674 BC Taharqa defeats Assyrian invasion
671 BC Kushites expelled from Egypt by Assyrians 700 BC Poverty Point (Louisiana) abandoned[1]
700 BC Many temple centres abandoned on coast of Peru[1] 700 BC Upanishads written
631 BC End of the Assyrian Empire
6th century BC 592 BC Psamtik II sack Napata
600 BC Iron making around Great Lakes region
600 BC circa, Nok iron smelting 600 BC Rise of Paracas culture (Peru)[1]
600 BC writing system appears in Mexico
600 BC Ball courts appear in Olmec centres[1] 539 BC Persians conquer Babylon

528 BC Buddhism founded

509 BC Roman Republic established
5th century BC 500 BC Trans-saharan trade in full bloom from Morocco to Senegal River
500 BC Meroe becomes center of iron production
500 BC Development of Ge'ez alphabet 500 BC Northwest Coast native peoples begin to flourish[1]
500 BC Hieroglyphic inscriptions produced in Zapotec centre of Monte Albán[1]
450 BC Mound building in eastern north America[1] 450 BC Tanakh compiled
486 BC Grand Canal begun 490 BC Battle of Marathon
480 BC Battle of Thermopylae
431 BC Peloponnesian War 500 BC Austronesian peoples settle Western Polynesia
4th century BC 343 BC Persia conquers Egypt
338 Khabash revolts against Persian occupation
332 BC Alexander conquers Egypt 400 BC Emergence of Moche civilisation in Peru[1]
350 BC Beginnings of Nasca culture in southern Peru
350 BC Inca metal work[1] 334 BC Greece conquers Persia
321 BC Rise of the Mauryan Empire 395 BC Corinthian War
3rd century BC 300 BC Tifinagh script developed
300 BC Meroe becomes capital of Kush
202 BC Battle of Zama 250 BC First Mayan hieroglyphics
300 BC The double-spout-and-bridge bottle becomes widespread[1]
250 BC Grave Creek Mound built in West Virginia 221 BC China unified 264 BC First Punic War
218 BC Second Punic War

2nd century BC 200 BC Djenné settled
200 BC Meroitic script in completed form
146 BC Carthage final defeat,Roman province of Africa 200 BC Zapotec state develops in Mexico[1]
200 BC Great temple complex declines at Chavín de Huántar, Peru[1]
200 BC Elite Calima burials with rich grave-goods deposited in Malagana, Colombia[1] 185 BC Fall of the Maurya Empire 149 BC Third Punic War
1st century BC 100 BC Aksum develops its Indian, Red Sea trade links
31 BC Rome conquers Egypt
20 BC Meroites thwart Roman conquest 100 BC Rise of the Hopewell exchange system along the Mississippi[2]
100 BC Rise of Teotihuacán in Mexico[2]
50 BC Rise of the Iputiak in Alaska[2] 146 BC Battle of Corinth
31 BC Battle of Actium

Significant people

The people in this section are organized according to the United Nations geoscheme

Significant people of the 1st millennium BC Africa America Asia Europe Oceania
10th century BC Psusennes I
Psusennes II
Shoshenq I King David of Israel
Zoroaster[3]
9th century BC Osorkon I
Takelot
Shoshenq II Homer[4]
8th century BC Alara
Piye
Kashta Isaiah Romulus and Remus
7th Century BC Taharqa
Tantamani
Psamtik I Jeremiah
6th century BC Aspelta
Psamtik II
Apries Mahavira[5]
Lao Zi[6]
Cyrus the Great[7] Leonidas
5th century BC Baskakeren
Harsiotef
Hanno II Gautama Buddha[8]
Confucius[9]
Darius I of Persia Pericles
Socrates
Plato[10]
4th century BC Khabash
Nastasen
Mago II Pāṇini
Chandragupta
Mencius[11] Aristotle[12]
Alexander the Great[13]
3rd century BC Hannibal
Aktisanes
Amanislo Ashoka[14]
Pingala
Qin Shi Huang[15] Euclid[16]
Archimedes[17]

2nd century BC Hasdrubal the Boeotarch
Shanakdakhete
Masinissa Jonathan Maccabaeus
Emperor Wu of Han
1st century BC Amanitore
Amanirenas
Cleopatra Herod the Great
Sima Qian Cicero
Julius Caesar[18]
Virgil

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