Mozi
c. 470 BC – 391 BC · 79 years · Tengzhou (State of Lu) · Asia
Preached "impartial care", concern for all people equally rather than for one's kin alone, and condemned wars of conquest. His followers were renowned experts in defensive fortification.
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Portrait: Vjacheslav Rublevskiy · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Socrates — Athenian philosopher, born the same year
- Plato — ancient Greek philosopher, 42 years younger
- Hippocrates — ancient Greek physician, 10 years younger
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Middle East
- Herodotus — ancient Greek historian, 14 years older
The world in their lifetime
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- 431 BC–404 BC Peloponnesian War — aged 39, Europe
- 430 BC–426 BC Plague of Athens — aged 40, Europe