From 500 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.

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  • Period: 470 BCE to 400 BCE

    Life of Aspasia in Athens

    Aspasia was an influential immigrant to Classical-era Athens who was the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles. The couple had a son, Pericles the Younger, but the full details of the couple's marital status are unknown. According to Plutarch, her house became an intellectual center in Athens, attracting the most prominent writers and thinkers, including the philosopher Socrates.
  • 124 BCE

    Imperial Academy for training Chinese officials established

  • Period: 100 BCE to 1 BCE

    Poetry of Buddhist nuns set to writing

  • 73 BCE

    Spartacus slave rebellion in Italy

  • Period: 1 CE to 200

    Laws of Manu

    Laws that prescribed proper social behavior in India
  • Period: 45 to 116

    Life of Ban Zhao in China

  • 79

    Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

    Destroys Pompeii
  • 184

    Yellow Turban Rebellion in China

  • 221

    Loosening of restrictions of Chinese women as Han Dynasty collapses

  • 500

    Slavery replaced by serfdom in Roman world

  • Period: 690 to 705

    Empress Wu reigned in China