Originally posted by Mr.Motzfeldt
It's time to highlight the 5th century BC, what actually happened in the world back then? Who ruled? Wars? Discoveries? Science?
I'll start with some philosophy:
Around 440 BC (?) Democritus poses the existence of indivisible particles which he calls atoms.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/democrit.htm
Taken from Russel's History of Western Philosophy
Wars:
Persian Wars
->Athens victory at Marathon 490 BC
Peloponnesian War from 429 BC
->Athens campaign against Syracuse 414 BC
->Athens attack aganst Melos 416 BC (leads to
The Trojan Women by Euripedes (Aeschylus, Sophoceles and Aristophanes were all relatively contemporary)
Philosophy:
Protagoras wrote a book called "On the Gods", which expresses doubt about the existence of gods.
Gorgias argued that nothing was knowable
Thyrasymachus argued that there is no justice apart from that that benefits the stronger, and governments make laws that benefit themselves. Same thing was argued by Callicles
There is a one saying remains from the co-founder of the Atomists, Leucippus "Naught happens for nothing, but everything from a ground and of necessity"
and lots of other stuff... Sokrates is apparently famous...
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Japan: Nothing known apart from Pottery
China: Start of Warring States period
Chinese philosophy:
Confucius
Sun Tzu
Master Mo "Master Mo called for a universal love encompassing all human beings in equal degree. He suggested a harmonious relationship between people on a reciprocal basis. Thus he is an assertor of unionism who suggested a practice of a political relationship of mutual benefit or dependence between states."
Source
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Lots seems to happen...
