Editing 1st millennium BC (section)

===Timeline===
[[File:World in 1 CE.png|thumb|300x300px|Map of the world in 1 AD, just after the end of the 1st millennium BC.]]
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*[[10th century BC]]<!-- 1000 BC to 901 BC-->
**Near East: [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]]
**Near East: [[Shoshenq I]] invades [[Canaan]]
**Aegean: [[Helladic]] period ends
**Sub-Saharan Africa West: [[Nok Culture]] slowly diffuse discernible ceramic sculpting, iron metallurgy and cereal farming cultures through the [[Niger Delta]] region, though debatable possible settling period and or foundation of proto [[Ile-Ife]]
*[[9th century BC]] 
**[[Chavín culture]] in Peru
**[[Third Intermediate Period of Egypt|Egypt]]: [[872 BC]]: Nile floods the Temple of Luxor
**Egypt: [[836 BC]]: Civil war in Egypt
** South Asia: [[872 BC]]: [[Jainism]] re-organized by [[Parshvanatha]]
** North Africa: [[814 BC]]: [[Carthage]] founded 
**[[Zhou dynasty|China]]: [[841 BC]]–[[828 BC]] [[Gonghe Regency]]
*[[8th century BC]] <!-- from 800 to 701-->
**[[727 BC]]: Egypt: [[Kingdom of Kush|Kushite invasion]] ([[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt|25th Dynasty]])
**[[771 BC]]: China: [[Spring and Autumn period]]
**Near East: [[727 BC]]: Death of [[Tiglath-Pileser III]], [[Babylonia]] secedes from [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyria]]
**Near East: [[722 BC]]: [[Sargon II]] takes [[Samaria]]; [[Assyrian captivity]] of the Israelites.
**Greece: [[Archaic Greece]], [[Greek alphabet]]
**Greece: [[Homer]]
**[[776 BC]]: Greece: First [[Olympiad]]
**[[753 BC]]: Europe: [[foundation of Rome]]
*[[7th century BC]][[File:Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal - king riding killing lion.jpg|thumb|Relief of King [[Ashurbanipal]] of [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Assyria]] hunting a [[Mesopotamian lion]], from the Northern Palace in [[Nineveh]], {{Circa|645}}-635 BC]]
**[[671 BC]]: Assyrian conquest of Egypt
**Near East: [[631 BC]]: Death of [[Ashurbanipal]], decline of the Assyrian Empire
*[[6th century BC]] <!-- from 600 to 501-->
**Egypt: [[592 BC]]: [[Psamtik II]] sacks Napata
**Sudan: [[Aspelta]] moves the Kushite capital to [[Meroe]] 
**Near East: [[539 BC]]: [[Achaemenid]] conquest of Babylon under [[Cyrus the Great]]
**South Asia: [[Śramaṇa]] movement and "second urbanisation"
**South Asia: [[Pre-sectarian Buddhism|Early Buddhism]]
**Europe: [[509 BC]]: [[Roman Republic]]
*[[5th century BC]] <!-- from 500 to 401-->
**China: [[479 BC]]: death of [[Confucius]] 
**China: [[476 BC]]: [[Warring States period]]
**China: [[486 BC]]: [[Grand Canal (China)|Grand Canal]] construction begins
**Near East: [[Second Temple Judaism]], redaction of the [[Hebrew Bible]]
** Greece: beginning of the [[Classical Greece|classical period]] ([[Greece in the 5th century BC]]).
** Greece: [[Greco-Persian Wars]] ([[Battle of Marathon]], [[Battle of Thermopylae]])
** Greece: 440 BC: [[Herodotus]]' ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]''
** Greece: [[431 BC]]: [[Peloponnesian War]]
**Oceania: [[Austronesian peoples|Austronesian expansion]] reaches Western Polynesia
*[[4th century BC]] <!-- from 400 to 301-->
**Greece: [[395 BC]]: [[Corinthian War]]
**Egypt: [[343 BC]]: [[Persian Egypt|Achaemenid conquest]][[File:World in 323 BCE.png|thumb|300px|right|Map of the world in 323 BC]]
**Greece/Asia/Egypt: 330s BC: conquests of [[Alexander the Great]], end of the Achaemenid Empire, [[Macedonian Empire]], beginning of the [[Hellenistic period]]
**South Asia: [[Mauryan Empire]]
*[[3rd century BC]] <!-- from 300 to 201-->
**China: [[Qin dynasty|Qin Unified China]]
**China: [[206 BC]]: [[Han dynasty]]
**South Asia: [[261 BC]]: [[Kalinga war]]
**Rome: [[Roman expansion in Italy]]
**Rome/Carthage: [[Punic Wars]]
*** [[264 BC]]: [[First Punic War]]
*** [[218 BC]] [[Second Punic War]]
*[[2nd century BC]] <!-- from 200 to 101-->
**Rome/Carthage: [[149 BC]] [[Third Punic War]], [[Roman province of Africa]][[File:Statue-Augustus (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Augustus|Augustus Caesar]], the first emperor of the [[Roman Empire]]]]
**Rome/Greece: [[146 BC]] [[Battle of Corinth (146 BC)|Battle of Corinth]], beginning of the [[Greece in the Roman era|Roman era]]
**South Asia: [[185 BC]]: Fall of the [[Maurya Empire]]
**China: [[Confucianism]] became the state ideology of China
*[[1st century BC]] <!-- from 100 to 1-->&nbsp;
**China: [[91 BC]]: [[Records of the Grand Historian]] finished
**Rome/Europe: 58–50 BC [[Gallic Wars]] 
**Rome: 32/30 BC: [[Final War of the Roman Republic]] ([[Battle of Actium]])
**Rome/Egypt: 31 BC: Roman conquest of Egypt
**Rome/Europe/West Asia/Africa: 27 BC: [[Roman Empire]]