China's Warring States period (In Our Time)
475 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing productivity of the Chinese Golden Age. 800 BC to 200 BC 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.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 475 BCE
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)