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Chronology

c. 380–370 BCE Plato’s Republic

c. 372–289 BCE Mencius, Confucian philosopher

367 BCE Aristotle enters the Academy

c. 365–c.275 BCE Pyrrho the Sceptic

c. 343–339 BCE Aristotle tutors Alexander

341–270 BCE Epicurus, founder of Epicurean philosophy

c. 336 BCE Aristotle founds Lyceum

c. 333–264 BCE Zeno of Citium, founds Stoic school

323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great

221 BCE Great Wall of China built

206 BCE– 220 CE Han Dynasty

200–100 BCE Buddhism splits into Theravada and Mahayana

106–43 BCE Marcus Tullius Cicero

27 BCE End of the Roman Republic

c. 4 BCE–c. 30 CE Jesus of Nazareth, founder of Christianity

c. 1 BCE–65 CE Lucius Annaeus Seneca

c. 55–135 Epictetus of Hierapolis

70 Destruction of Jewish temple in Jerusalem

100–165 Justin Martyr

121–180 Marcus Aurelius

c. 150–200 Nagarjuna, founder of Madhyamika school of Buddhism

c. 200 Sextus Empiricus

205–c. 269 Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism

c. 215–276 Mani, founder of Manicheaism

325 Council of Nicaea

c. 338–397 St. Ambrose

354–430 St. Augustine of Hippo

380 Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman

Empire

410 Fall of Rome

451 Council of Chalcedon

c. 475–524 Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

570–632 Muhammed, prophet of Islam

610 Muhammed receives his first revelation from God in a cave

during Ramadan

613 Mohammed begins preaching about his revelations

c. 650 Qur’an written

c. 788–c. 820 Adi Shankara, founder of Advaita Vedanta Hinduism

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