With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

The Astronomer ( Vermeer ) | The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer ( c. 1668 )

Brygos ( potter signed ), Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre.

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

Symbols on Gerzean pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

" As Middle Egyptian evolved into Late Egyptian, Demotic, and finally Coptic ( c. 600 BC ), dj-b-t became tobe " brick.

Titus Flavius Clemens ( c. 150 – c. 215 ), known as Clement of Alexandria, was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

( Justin Martyr, c. 150 )

( Justin Martyr, c. 150 )

These include the Antikythera mechanism and the astrolabe from ancient Greece ( c. 150 – 100 BC ), which are generally regarded as the earliest known mechanical analog computers.

The earlier, longer and more complete passage comes from a stoic philosopher called Antipater of Tarsus in a moral tract known as On Marriage ( c. 150 BC ).

Nobel bequeathed 94 % of his total assets, 31 million SEK ( c. US $ 186 million, € 150 million in 2008 ), to establish the five Nobel Prizes.

150 BCE or 2nd c. BCE ) is the compiler of the Yoga Sūtras, an important collection of aphorisms on Yoga practice.

The Hellenistic astronomers Hipparchus ( c. 150 BC ) and Ptolemy ( c. AD 150 ) subdivided the day sexagesimally and also used a mean hour, simple fractions of an hour (,, etc.

* April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo ( Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC ) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

* c. 4000 – 3000 BC — Austronesian peoples reach Formosa ( Taiwan ) having crossed 150 km from China using advanced maritime technology.

From c. 150 BC, the first coins came into use, under the influence of trade with the Mediterranean.

To this end, the physician Zhang Zhongjing ( c. 150 – c.

* c. 150 BC: Observatory at Rhodes, Greece

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, dating from c. 150 BCE-75 CE, shows however that in this period there was not always the scrupulous uniformity of text that was so stressed in later centuries.

The story's first appearance in any source other than Matthew is in the 2nd-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James of c. 150 AD, which excludes the Flight into Egypt and switches the attention of the story to the infant John the Baptist:

The first major change occurred c. 150 – 91 BC, during the reigns of Mosiah I, Benjamin, and Mosiah II.

Apologia ( c. 150 ) I: XXIX-" Antinous, who was alive but lately, and whom all were prompt, through fear, to worship as a god, though they knew both who he was and what was his origin.

* Mithridates IV of Pontus ( r. c. 170 – 150 BC )

* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.

* Bhartrihari ( c 450 – 510 CE ), early figure in Indic linguistic theory

* Bodhidharma ( c. 440 – 528 CE ), founder of the Zen school of Buddhism

* Vasubandhu ( c. 300 CE ), one of the main founders of the Indian Yogacara school.

* Nagarjuna ( c. 150-250 CE ), the founder of the Madhyamaka ( Middle Path ) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

There are three main versions of the Book of Daniel: the twelve-chapter version preserved in the Masoretic text and two longer Greek versions ( the original Septuagint version, c. 100 BCE, and the later Theodotion version, c. 2nd century CE ).

All eight manuscripts were copied within 175 years, ranging from 125 BCE ( 4QDan < sup > c </ sup >) to about 50 CE ( 4QDan < sup > b </ sup >).

* Several Aramaic targums of Esther were produced in the Middle Ages of which two survive-the Targum Rishon (" First Targum ") and Targum Sheni (" Second Targum ") dated c. 500-1000 CE.

Eastern variants of Gupta called Nāgarī are first attested from the 8th century CE ; from c. 1200 CE these gradually replaced Siddham, which survived as a vehicle for Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, and Sharada, which remained in parallel use in Kashmir.

The Indian philosopher Nagarjuna ( c. 150-250 CE ) largely advanced existence concepts and founded the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Fresco of " Sappho " from Pompeii, c. 50 CE.

There is reference on a Greek papyrus from 163 BCE to the procedure being conducted on girls in Memphis, the ancient Egyptian capital, and Strabo ( c. 64 BCE – c. 23 CE ), the Greek geographer, reported it when he visited Egypt in 25 BCE.

The practice in the time of Gamaliel II ( c. 100 CE ) was for witnesses to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month.

By the time of the redaction of the Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah 1: 1 ( c. 200 CE ), jurists had identified four new-year dates:

After Menander's death, the Indo-Greeks steadily declined and the last Indo-Greek king was defeated in c. 10 CE.

One of these sets of rules is found in the siddur, from the " Introduction to Sifra " by Ishmael ben Elisha, c. 200 CE.

File: Irish harp-Maedoc. jpg | Maedoc book-cover, Ireland, c. 1000 CE

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

The Mali Empire began in the 13th century CE, when a Mande ( Mandingo ) leader, Sundiata ( Lord Lion ) of the Keita clan, defeated Soumaoro Kanté, king of the Sosso or southern Soninke, at the Battle of Kirina in c. 1235.