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Plato

428 BCE – 348 BCE · 80 years

The philosopher who founded the Academy, wrote the Republic, and shaped every branch of Western thought for two and a half thousand years — from the streets of wartime Athens to the courts of Sicilian tyrants.

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Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

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Scythians

Attested 400 BCE – 100 CE

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Socrates

470 BCE – 399 BCE

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Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

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Aristotle

384 BCE – 322 BCE

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Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

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Alexander the Great

356 BCE – 323 BCE

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400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Axum 400 BCE Yoshinogari 400 BCE Ostia Antica 395 BCE Corinthian War 379 BCE Theban–Spartan War

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE Xiongnu Polity · East Asia 400 BCE – 500 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Maya City-State Wars Conflict · Americas 400 BCE – 900 CE Biskupin Landmark · Europe 750 BCE – 400 BCE Nabatean Kingdom Polity · Middle East 400 BCE – 106 CE
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