Years -300
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Events
- Introduction of the Cavalry and the tactics of the wandering tribes (Scythian) into the States of the North of the China (Qin, Yan and Zhao) to the end of. The king of Zhao (Bye) creates in -307 a body of archers with horse with the imitation of the wandering tribes of the loop of the Ordos and Mongolian steppe.
- the cavalry will be never very important (5 000 with 10 000 riders for the most powerful kingdoms the day before the imperial unification. The infantry constitutes the main part of the troops then, cash of the hundreds of thousands of men. It seems, according to the very high figures which the texts provide, which almost all the male population in age to carry the weapons is built-in the armies under infantrymen. The kingdom of Qin is the first to have instituted at the 4th century a system of enrôlement obligatory for all the subjects. On the contrary, where remain of the noble manners inherited the time of Hégémons, the large ones constitute a personal militia.
- Battle of Bovianum. End of the Second war samnite.
- Wars of diadoques the. Battle of Ipsos.
Significant characters
- Agathoclès of Syracuse
- Antigone One-eyed the
- Cassandre of Macedonia
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Démétrios Ier Poliorcète
- Lysimaque
- Polyperchon
- Ptolémée Ier
- Séleucos Ier
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
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China: With the appearance of the cavalry, the pants replaces the large dress of the noble classes. Its use will spread among common peoples.
Art & culture
- Colossus of Rhodes.
- the stoical philosopher Zénon of Cition founds the school of the gantry (Stoa) with Athens.
- Crowned History (fine 4th century) of the mythographe Evhémère. He affirms that the gods are former great men divinized by the fear and the admiration of their contemporaries.
- final Drafting of the Ecclésiaste , recited at the time of the Festival of the gate vaults (fine of the 4th century).
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