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Period: 470 BCE to 400 BCE
Life of Aspasia in Athens
Aspasia was an influential immigrant to Classical-era Athens who was the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles. The couple had a son, Pericles the Younger, but the full details of the couple's marital status are unknown. According to Plutarch, her house became an intellectual center in Athens, attracting the most prominent writers and thinkers, including the philosopher Socrates. -
124 BCE
Imperial Academy for training Chinese officials established
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Period: 100 BCE to 1 BCE
Poetry of Buddhist nuns set to writing
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73 BCE
Spartacus slave rebellion in Italy
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Period: 1 CE to 200
Laws of Manu
Laws that prescribed proper social behavior in India -
Period: 45 to 116
Life of Ban Zhao in China
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79
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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184
Yellow Turban Rebellion in China
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221
Loosening of restrictions of Chinese women as Han Dynasty collapses
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500
Slavery replaced by serfdom in Roman world
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Period: 690 to 705
Empress Wu reigned in China