-540

This page relates to the year -540 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Battle of Alalia: defeat of the Phocée NS vis-a-vis the Carthaginian combined with the Etruscan .
Beginning of the reign of Amyntas Ier in Macedonia. > (498 av . J. - C.).
On the site of Arles, foundation of a emporion called Théline (the Feeder) by the Greeks of Marseilles.

the second Isaïe, exiled with Babylon, prophesies the destruction of Babylon by the Perse and the return to Sion.
Taken again Sidon by the Persian .
Cyrus II turns to the Eastern Iran, conquers the Parthie, the Arie, the Sogdiane, the Bactriane and the high valley of the Indus. It puts at the reason the populations wandering or sedentary, the safety of its provisioning ensures, imposes tributes which give him human and financial means to continue its policy of conquest.

the expansionism of the Chinese States leads them to fight apart from the plains, in marshy zones (Wu and Hue) or mountainous (Jin). This implies the end of the supremacy of the tanks to the profit of troops of infantrymen commoners and conscripts, armed with swords with double edge and lances. The kingdom of Jin creates in -540 companies of infantrymen to fight the cruel populations in the mountains. Its example is followed by the kingdom of Zheng, with the Eastern Henan. The nobility of Jin, accustomed to the confrontations of tanks, easily does not agree to be useful in the infantry. It then appears soldier-peasants, producers of cereals and infantrymen. The concepts of order, discipline and effectiveness replace the old morals of the honor of the nobility.

After the conquest of the Ionie by the Persian , the philosopher Xénophane of Colophon takes refuge with Elée in Italy where it founds the philosophical school éléate.
Construction of the temple of Héra to Paestum, in Italy.

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