Pythagoras founds his school at Croton
Numbers as the essence of the cosmos — Greek math begins
The philosopher Pythagoras of Samos settled at Croton in southern Italy and founded a religious and philosophical community. The Pythagoreans saw number as the basis of the cosmos and pioneered Greek mathematics and music theory.
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Middle East
- 550 BC Cyrus the Great founds the Achaemenid Empire — 20 years earlier
- 539 BC Fall of Babylon to Cyrus — 9 years earlier
Asia
- 551 BC Birth of Confucius — 21 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Cyrus the Great (aged 70)
- Pythagoras (aged 40)
- Gautama Buddha (aged 33)
- Confucius (aged 21)
- Mahavira (aged 69)
- Darius the Great (aged 20)
- Sun Tzu (aged 14)
- Leonidas I (aged 10)
- Heraclitus (aged 5)