Ban Zhao
c. 45 – 117 · 72 years · Luoyang · Asia
China's first known female historian, she completed the Book of Han and wrote the influential Lessons for Women.
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Contemporaries around the world
Middle East
- Paul the Apostle — apostle and Christian missionary, 40 years older
Africa
- Claudius Ptolemy — astronomer and geographer, 55 years younger
Asia
- Zhang Heng — astronomer, inventor of the seismoscope, 33 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 70 Siege of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple — aged 25, Middle East
- c. 100 The rise of Aksum — aged 55, Africa
- 105 Cai Lun and the invention of paper — aged 60, Asia