Period 2 (c.600 B.C.E. - 600 C.E.)

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  • Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE

    Persian Empire

    A collection of imperial dynasties within the Middle East
    - transitioned into revolutions of faith and ideas
  • Period: 600 BCE to 200 BCE

    Emergence of religions (East Asia)

    • confucianism: focuses on five fundamental relationships: ruler and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older sibling and younger sibling
    • Daoism: passive form of governing, where problems resolve themselves as they are; "eternal principle governing all the working of the world"
    • Legalism:Order within state attained through strong, centralized government
  • Period: 597 BCE to 586 BCE

    Jewish Diaspora (Mid East)

    • the dispersion of Israelites [Jews] from homeland
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Buddhism (South Asia)

    • founded by Siddhartha Gautama; rejected wealth to search for meaning of human suffering
    • two large movements: 1.)Theravada 2.) Mahayana
  • Period: 499 BCE to 499 BCE

    Persian War

    A succession of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 B
  • Period: 20 BCE to 200 BCE

    Pax Romana (Africa)

    -peace between nationalities