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400 BC

400 BC

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The Romans inherited the idea of the ventral bow and improved it: the ballista (large precision crossbow) was born.

5th century BC

5th century BC

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Ancient Greece: Alphabetic codes are used to write numbers. The first nine letters of the Greek alphabet represent the first nine digits, the next nine letters represent 10, 20, 30, …90, the last six letters plus three additional symbols represent 100, 200, 300, …900. And

500 BC

500 BC

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Sun-Tzu wrote the classic “The Art of War” where he states: “All warfare is based on deception,” “If the enemy leaves a door open, you must slip through quickly.”

513 BC

513 BC

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Siddhartha, at the age of 34, becomes the Buddha through Enlightenment: for 49 days he remains sitting cross-legged under a tree

515 BC

515 BC

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From the first wave of Jewish returns to Palestine (from Babylon), under the leadership of Zerubbabel, they were committed to the reconstruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, which was completed in 516 BC.

525 BC

525 BC

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After the conquest of Egypt, the 50,000-man army of Cambyses disappeared in the desert, according to Herodotus, due to a sandstorm. In 2000 AD, geologists from Helwan University, searching for oil, found the remains of the Lost Army of Cambyses in the desert.

600 BC

600 BC

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Invention of the ventral bow: loading it by pointing it at the ground with the archer’s weight brings the tension of the bow from 50 to 100 kg and simplifies the shooting operation

2000 BC

2000 BC

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Agriculture feeds numerous large cities from China to the Mediterranean. Within another 1,500 years, it will feed almost all of Eurasia, and within another 2,000 years, it will increase the world’s population to 8 billion (up from 5 million at the beginning of the Holocene).

2102 – 1500 BC

2102 – 1500 BC

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Joseph was sold by his brothers into slavery to the Egyptians, and he predicted to Pharaoh seven years of prosperity and seven years of famine. Joseph became an advisor to Pharaoh, and all his brothers followed him to Egypt.

June 29, 3123 BC

June 29, 3123 BC

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Nineveh, Iraq. An ancient clay tablet held at the British Museum has puzzled experts for over 150 years. The cuneiform tablet, in the British Museum’s collection, No. K8538, is known as “the Planisphere.” It will be translated in the early 21st century: the clay tablet

45,000 BC

45,000 BC

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Tabun and Kebara Caves, Carmel Mountains, present-day Israel. Small groups of Neanderthals live in these caves. 55,000 years earlier, small groups of Homo sapiens lived in the Skhul and Qafzeh caves, located just a few kilometers away. According to Svante Paabo, this is evidence that