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General

Population: About 162 million*

• Etnertainment: Sophocles writes "Antigone" (443 BC)
• Philosophy: Heraclitus teaches that "all is flux" and declares that dreams are not journeys into the supernatural (440 BC)
• Religion: Judean law prohibits intermarriage with foreigners (440 BC)
• Warfare: Persian wars end with Greek victory (449 BC)
• Deaths: Cimon of Athens (449 BC), Pindar the Greek poet (447 BC)

Americas

• Mexico: Death of Olmecs (probably 440 AD) (440 BC)

Asia

• India: Famine under Jei-Chund (443 BC)

Europe

• General: Athens begins military settlements in the Aegean (447 BC)
• Greece: Sacred War between Athens and Sparta over control of oracle at Delphi (449 BC)
  Pericles rebuilds Athens and starts Parthenon (449 BC)
  Peace of Kallias secures Ionian independence from Persia (448 BC)
  Athenians defeated at Coronea by Boeotians (447 BC)
  Parthenon started (447 BC)
  End of first Peloponnesian War with 15,000 dead (447 or 446 BC)
  30-year truce between Athens and Sparta (445 BC)
  Pericles elected general for 15 years (443 BC)
• Italian States: Earliest creation or Roman laws (449 BC)
  Administration of Roman exchequer passes into the hands of quaestors (447 BC)
  Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sunium (445 BC)
  Pericles of Athens takes Samos and founds the colony of Thurii in southern Italy with Herodotus as a citizen (440 BC)
  Plebians in Rome win fight to marry Patricians (445 or 440 BC)

Middle East

• Judaea: Nehemiah builds walls of Jerusalem (445 BC)
• Syria: Revolt of Megabyzus the Persian satrap (447 BC)