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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Births: Mahavira Vardhamana born (founder of Jainism) (540 BC)
• Cartography: Anaximander of Miletus draws first map of known world - see 546 (540 BC)
• Philosophy: Thales of Greece dies - founder of "theory of everything" (547 BC)
• Religion: Cult of Dionysius attempts to thward hereditary priesthood in Athenian nobility (546 BC)
• Science: Anaximander of Miletus teaches that all life develops from amphibians (546 BC)
• Deaths: Thales of Greece (547 BC), King Croesus of Lydia (546 BC), Anaximander of Miletus - theory of aperion and founder of evolution and first abstractions (546 - 545 BC), Thales of Miletus the Greek philosopher (545 BC)

Americas

• General: Plates pass from Nephi to Jacob (544 BC)

Asia

• India: Magadha becomes dominant kingdom in Indian subcontinent (540 BC)

Europe

• Greece: Sparta becomes part of peloponnesian League to 146 BC (546 BC)
  Athens controlled by military usurper Pisistratus and son (546 BC)
  Persians conquer Ionia (546 BC)

Middle East

• General: End of Anatolia, Lycia, and Lydia (547 - 546 BC)
  King Croesus - last king of Lydia defeated and killed by Persians in Battle of Sardis (546 BC)
• Iran: End of kingdom of Media (Medes) (549 BC)
• Persian Empire: Rise of empire under Cyrus II (The Great) (540 BC)