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Period: 100 to 200
Late Bronze Age (1200 BCE - 1100 BCE)
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Moses (1392 BC - 1272 BC)
Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Qur'an, and Baha'i scripture, a religious leader, lawgiver, and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. -
Period: 200 to
Iron Age (1100 BC - 300 BC)
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500
Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey
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500
Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
Also called Sakyamuni, a sage from the ancient Shakya republic, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is also referred to as "the Buddha" or simply as "Buddha." -
May 8, 600
Anaximander (610 BC - 546 BC)
Anaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales. -
May 8, 603
Anaximines (585 BC - 525 BC)
Anaximenes of Miletus was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher active in the latter half of the 6th century BC. One of the three Milesian philosophers, he is identified as a younger friend or student of Anaximander. -
May 15, 603
Pythagorus (570 BC - 495 BC)
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. -
May 8, 650
Sappho (612 BC - 570 BC)
Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. -
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Medieval Period (500 AD - 1300 AD)
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Muhammed (570 AD - June 8, 632 AD)
Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, also transliterated as Muhammad, was a religious, political, and military leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. -
Thales (624 BC - 546 BC)
was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition. -
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Hellenism (300 BC - 400 AD)
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Renaissance (1400 AD - 1600 AD)
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Rene Descartes (March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650)
was a creative mathematician of the first order, an important scientific thinker, and an original metaphysician. During the course of his life, he was a mathematician first, a natural scientist or “natural philosopher” second, and a metaphysician third. In mathematics, he developed the techniques that made possible algebraic (or “analytic”) geometry. In natural philosophy, he can be credited with several specific achievements: co-framer of the sine law of refraction, developer of an important em -
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Age of Enlightenment (1700 AD - 1800 AD)
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John Locke (August 29, 1632 - October 28, 1704)
John Locke FRS, widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought. -
Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804)
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. He is the central figure of modern philosophy, and set the terms by which all subsequent thinkers have had to grapple. -
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Modern Era (1800 AD - 2000 AD)
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Freidrich Nietchze (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900)
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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955)
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
