China's Warring States period (In Our Time)
475 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing productivity of the Chinese Golden Age. 400 BC to 200 AD is known as the Axial Age, when great civilisations in Asia and the Mediterranean forged the ideas that dominated the next two thousand years. In China the equivalent to the Golden Age in Greece was the Warring States Period. It was a time of political tu
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Around 475 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)