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In about 300 BCE, Greek philosopher Epicurus proposed that the universe's boundaries were limitless and that space was full of other worlds.
The Greeks discovered the Italian peninsula in the 7th century BCE.
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the group of peoples who spread, probably from the Arabian peninsula, to Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine around 3000 BCE — and, before 700 BC from southern Arabia to Abyssinia, on the opposite African mainland — have been designated as Semites. They were so called after Shem, who, according to the first Book of Moses, chapter 10, was the eldest son of Noah.
Historically speaking, writing on paper has been around since 300 BCE, but archaeologically, there is only evidence from 100 BCE.
The earliest examples of Chinese palaces date back to 1200 BCE.
The recorded history of art in Bangladesh can be traced to the 3rd century BCE.
Socrates was tried and executed in the year 399 BCE.
We now know that circa 1600 BCE, the angara were created and seeded across Heleus by the Jardaan. Records of this process are less substantial than ancient angaran history, but it was apparently in service of a grand experiment.
The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus claimed that the forebears of the Lycians, the Trm̃mili, "sprang originally from Crete", though modern-day scholars believe they were an Anatolian people who became Hellenised after Alexander the Great seized the region from the Persians in 333 BCE. […] Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation.
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