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The beginning date of the Hebrew calendar, according to scholar Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century Rabbi. Adam & Eve created (Year 1 of Jewish calendar).
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Chalcolithic Period, first settlement
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First confirmed settlement of Gaza at Tell as-Sakan
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First houses built in Jerusalem
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Priestess Enheduanna, first known author in the world
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Composition begins on The Vedas
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Life of Zoroaster according to modern scholar estimations.
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The prophet Zoroaster reforms religious belief, retains ancient mythological symbols and characters.
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Zoroaster develops his new vision of religious truth which becomes Zoroastrianism.
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Life of Zoroaster, according to Pahlavi sources.
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Confucius (Kongzi) was an eminent teacher and philosopher whose views, recorded in "The Analects" (Lunyu), exerted an enormous influence over later developments in Chinese thought and government.
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Life of Shakyamuni Buddha, based on whose teachings Buddhism developed.
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Hinduism is spread to SE Asia by Hindu traders
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Revival of Hinduism under Gupta patronage
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Composition of epic poem Ramayana
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Reign of King Ashoka, patron of Buddhism; sends first Buddhists to Sri Lanka in the third century.
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Zoroastrianism becomes Persian state religion under the Sassanian Empire.
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Hindu laws codified
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Dong Zhongshu's synthesis of Daoism, Legalism and Confucianism provided a means to legitimate Han rule, and became a key part of imperial ideology for subsequent dynasties.
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Liu Che: Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 BCE ) expanded the Han Empire into Central Asia, Vietnam, and the Korean peninsular, he promoted state activism, and his reign also witnessed the rise of Imperial Confucianism which served as the ideological justification for his imperialistic policies
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Rise of Mahayana Buddhism.
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Reign of King Kanishka; Mahayana Buddhism spreads to Central Asia.
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Buddhism first enters China.
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A leading intellectual of the later Tang dynasty, Han Yu advocated a return to Confucian learning as a means to revitalize the government. To this end, he argued against imperial patronage of Buddhism, and promoted the "ancient style" (guwen) of prose. He is considered a forerunner of the Song Neo-Confucian movement.
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Ye Shi, a prominent official and statecraft thinker in 12th-13th century Wenzhou, Zhejiang; the representative voice of the so-called Yongjia school. His political essays bear on the Song government and economy. He wrote a famous defense of Zhu Xi in 1188, yet his later stinging criticisms of the speculative philosophy also brought him renown as the critic of Zhu Xi.