Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

Achaemenid Assyria ( 539 BC – 330 BC ) retained a separate identity ( Athura ), official correspondence being in Imperial Aramaic, and there was even a determined revolt of the two Assyrian provinces of Mada and Athura in 520 BC.

Under Seleucid rule ( 330 BC – approximately 150 BC ), however, Aramaic gave way to Greek as the official administrative language.

An Athenian inventory from 330 – 329 BC includes catapults bolts with heads and flights.

Many more errors came from the tendency of actors to interpolate words and sentences, producing so many corruptions and variations that a law was proposed by Lycurgus of Athens in 330 BC "... that the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides should be written down and preserved in a public office ; and that the town clerk should read the text over with the actors ; and that all performances which did not comply with this regulation should be illegal.

Aristotle accepted the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds around 330 BC, and knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.

Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.

** Ancient Greek, ( c. 1000 – 330 BC )

** Koine Greek or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, ( c. 330 BC – 330 AD )

Greek marble relief c. 330 BC depicting a hoplite in combat, holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy.

Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army arrived to what is now Afghanistan in 330 BC after conquering Persia during the Battle of Gaugamela.

Alexander the Great arrived in the area of Afghanistan in 330 BC after defeating Darius III of Persia a year earlier at the Battle of Gaugamela.

At the time of Alexander the Great in 330 BC, Aria was obviously an important district.

In late 330 BC, Alexander captured the Arian capital that was called Artacoana.

340 BC – 330 BC, Louvre

Alexander the Great explored the Kabul valley after his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC but no record has been made of Kabul, which may have been only a small town and not worth writing about.

Presuming that Timaeus would not have written until after he was 20 years old at about 330 BC and Dicaearchus would have needed time to write his most mature work, after 300 BC, there is no reason not to accept Tozer's window of 330 BC – 300 BC for the voyage.

The presence of three Greek loanwords that only occur in Daniel chapter 3, have supporters of a late date say that Daniel had to have been written after Alexander the Great ’ s conquest of the Orient, from 330 BCE.

* 330 BC: Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire, decline and depopulation of Ancient Greece with large migrations towards the conquered lands.

* A damaged cuneiform astronomical diary tablet from Babylon ( Babylonian Chronicle 8: the Alexander Chronicle, BM 36304 ) mentions that " ki-di-nu was killed by the sword " on day 15 of probably the 5th month of that year, which has been dated as 14 August 330 BC, less than a year after Alexander the Great conquered Babylon.

The Alexander chronicle mentioned above suggests that the famous astronomer Kidinnu died in Babylon in 330 BC, if it refers to the same Kidinnu who was mentioned on the ephemeris tablets centuries later.

According to legend preserved in the Book of Arda Viraf, a 3rd or 4th century work, a written version of the religious texts had existed in the palace library of the Achaemenid kings ( 559 – 330 BC ), but which was then supposedly ( Arda Viraf 1. 4-7 and Denkard 3. 420 ) lost in a fire caused by the troops of Alexander.

Then, two centuries later in 330 BCE the Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great overthrew the Persians and took control of Mesopotamia itself, bringing Hellenic influence to the region with the Seleucid Empire.

In 330 BC, Ecbatana was also the site of the murder of the Macedonian Greek General Parmenio ( or Parmenion ) under the order of Alexander the Great.

The lands of the former Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah ( c. 930 BCE – 586 BCE ), had been occupied in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, the Achaemenid Empire, and Alexander the Great's Hellenic Macedonian empire ( c. 330 BCE ), although Jewish religious practice and culture had persisted and even flourished during certain periods.

Bust of Alexander ( Roman copy of a 330 BC statue by Lysippus, Louvre Museum ).

The Classical period then began, and lasted until the conquests of Alexander the Great in about 330 BC, which began the Hellenistic period, extending until the Roman absorption of the Greek world in the 1st century BCE.

The first historically documented invasion of the Afghanistan region was by Alexander the Great in 330 BC as part of his string of conquests.

In 330 BC, Alexander the Great seized the area but left it to Seleucids to rule.

It was captured by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.

She came to the attention of history when, in 330 BC, Alexander burned down the palace of Persepolis after a drinking party.

Powerful Hellenistic states were established in the areas of Bactria and Sogdiana, and later northern India for three centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great around 330 BCE: the Seleucid empire until 250 BCE, followed by the Greco-Bactrian kingdom until 130 BCE, and the Indo-Greek kingdom from 180 BCE to around 10 BCE.

Despite his admiration for Cyrus the Great, and his attempts at renovation of his tomb, Alexander would eventually ransack Persepolis, the opulent city that Cyrus had helped build, and order its burning in 330 B. C.

:* Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 330 BCE, ending the Ancient Persian Empire era.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In 330, after a period of civil war, Constantine the Great ( r. 306 – 337 ) refounded the city of Byzantium as the newly renamed eastern capital, Constantinople.

* January 1 – Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea ( b. 330 )

The ( arch ) bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great.

After Constantine the Great had enlarged Byzantium to make it into a new capital city in 330, it was thought appropriate that its bishop, once a suffragan of Heraclea Pontica and traditionally a successor of Saint Andrew the Apostle, should become second only to the Bishop of Old Rome.

246 / 50 – 18 August 330 ) was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, ( 329 or 330 – January 1, 379 ) () was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor ( modern-day Turkey ).

Following Constantine's victory over co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis ( Üsküdar ) in 324, Nicomedia served as an interim capital city for Constantine the Great between 324 and 330, until the nearby Byzantium was officially declared Nova Roma ( later known as Constantinople, present-day Istanbul ).

In fact, this proved true: compared to the 60, 000 visitors per year at its former site, the Glenn Visitor Center enjoyed 330, 000 visitors in the first year at the Great Lakes Science Center.

* " Nova Roma " is traditionally reported to be the Latin name given by emperor Constantine the Great to the new imperial capital he founded in 330 at the city on the European coast of the Bosporus strait, known as Byzantium until then and as Kōnstantinoúpolis ( Constantinople ) from that time to its official renaming as Istanbul in 1928.

There are some vestiges of a Roman bridge across the Danube, built in 330 by Constantine the Great.

By 2011, the church reported it had 330 congregations in 45 countries, with over 8, 000 members attending its annual 8-day long festival of the Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day at 46 sites in 31 countries located in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, and South America.