BC

First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East.

Israel is invaded and defeated by the Philistines.

Egypt’s 1st Dynasty created by the joining of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt.

China is united under the reign of Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor.

Spartan forces win the Battle of Coronea.

Alexander the Great invades Egypt and founds the city Alexandria.

The Hittites conquer Babylon.

Sparta and The Athenian League form a peace pact.

Buddha dies in India.

France is conquered by Julius Caesar.

The Fourth Sacred War begins and marks the final step in Philip II of Macedon’s rise to a position of dominance in Greece.

The great poet Homer writes “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”.