Oxus chariot model
c. 500-300 BC · Resource
A miniature gold four-horse chariot carrying two figures in Median dress, the finest piece of the Oxus Treasure of Achaemenid Persian goldwork. It illustrates elite craftsmanship at the height of the Persian Empire.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 400 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)