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| 371 BC |
| | | A Spartan army is overwhelmed at Leuctra by a smaller number of Thebans under Epaminondas | |
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| 367 BC |
| | | Aristotle, at the age of seventeen, comes to Athens to join Plato's academy | |
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| 359 BC |
| | | Philip II succeds his father Amyntas III on the throne of Macedonia, the northernmost kingdom of Greece | |
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| 356 BC |
| | | Philip II sets about making Macedon the most powerful state in Greece | |
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| 356 BC |
| | | Alexander the Great is born in Pella, the capital of his father Philip II, at the heart of the expanding Macedonian kingdom | |
|  | Pella, mosaic
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Artemisia, widow of Mausolus, builds him a tomb at Halicarnassus so spectacular that his name provides a new word - mausoleum | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Eudoxus of Cnidus proposes the concept of transparent spheres supporting the bodies visible in the heavens | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Daoism, attributed to the mythical sage Lao Tzu, becomes a popular alternative to the solemnity of Confucianism | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Private financiers in Athens give loans, take deposits, change money from one currency to another and arrange credit for travellers | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Tea, now well established as a drink, features in a Chinese dictionary | |
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