 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 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
Fotofile CG
|
|
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | Artemisia, widow of Mausolus, builds him a tomb at Halicarnassus so spectacular that his name provides a new word - mausoleum | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | Eudoxus of Cnidus proposes the concept of transparent spheres supporting the bodies visible in the heavens | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | Daoism, attributed to the mythical sage Lao Tzu, becomes a popular alternative to the solemnity of Confucianism | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | Private financiers in Athens give loans, take deposits, change money from one currency to another and arrange credit for travellers | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | Tea, now well established as a drink, features in a Chinese dictionary | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | The earliest description of a pulley appears in a Greek text | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | The brutal philosophy of Legalism contributes to the decline of the Zhou dynasty | |
| |
|
| c. 350 BC |
| | | The Mahabharata, India's great national epic, begins to take shape | |
| |
|
| 348 BC |
| | | The citizens of Olynthus abandon their houses, with elaborate mosaic floors, when their city is attacked by Philip of Macedon | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |