Years -450

sixth century BC | fifth century BC | fourth century BC

-459 | -458 | -457 | -456 | -455 | -454 | -453 | -452 | -451 | -450

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Events

the Greek historian Hérodote describes towards -450 how the Scythes of the Ukraine scalpent their enemies and keep their chevelures in trophies: this use is proven by devastated cranium of one of the chiefs of Pazyryk, in the Altaï (fifth century BC).
Hérodote mentions the Celtes, of which it was informed undoubtedly in a voyage that it made on the edges of the Black Sea.
Hérodote makes the first allusion to the Tibet when he speaks in his writings about an area about High Indus where live enquiring gold ants.

the Carthaginian navigator Himilcon recognizes the Atlantic coast until the British Isles (Cassitérides) with the research of tin. It makes a frightening account of its voyage of the Pillars of Hercules in the Œstrymnides islands.
Disappearance towards -450 of the prosperous age of Danish Bronze, perhaps related to the subatlantic deterioration of the climate. First Germanic invasions of the Bastarnes and the Skires starting from their south-Swedish bases and the Baltic towards South-east.

Apogee of the period “traditional” in Greece, primarily due to major artistic creations of the Athenian democracy (- 450 with -410 front J. - C.).

Pillar pertaining to worship out of sandstone of Pfalzfeld (the Rhineland), discovered in 1608 and dated between -450 and -350.

At the 5th century, thanks to the technical innovations, the Celtic Art leaves geometrical art definitively. The lines are curved, are released. The Eastern topics are introduced: the tree of life surrounded by birds, monstrous guards or dragons; the Master of the animals; the palmette; the flower of lotus; the topic of the human mask. Present of the Champagne until in Bohemia and to the borders of the Carpates, they betray profound changes in the beliefs. The new use of the dividers makes it possible to carry out complex decorations (phalères). The topics are differentiated according to the areas: fibules with double face symmetrical produced in the average Rhine, fibules with asymmetrical arc in the East; Wild boars, birds in flight or fibules in the shape of shoes with Dürrnberg; figurative fantastic in Bohemia, but rare decorations in Swiss and Champagne; vases with foot made with the spinner and painted in red of broad curvilinear decorations out of Champagne and in the the Ardennes, black potteries of Armorique, which reproduce the metal crockery and decorate small punched reasons or decorations incised containing palmettes

Beginning of the work of the Iron in Africa in the south of the the Sahara (Plate of Jos, with the current Nigeria).
Invention of the crossbow and the catapults in China (second half of the 5th century).
the Greek philosopher Empédocle d' Agrigente announces the use of the Clepsydre (Horloge with water), to measure the speaking time in the courts.

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