Culture & IdeasThe 5th century BCE

Culture & Ideas in the 5th century BCE

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 5th century BCE, tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
490 BCE
Latest
490 BCE

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 490 BCE — Asia:

    Iran

    Darius I calls himself 'a Persian, an Aryan' at Naqsh-e Rostam

    The inscription on Darius I's tomb at Naqsh-e Rostam (DNa) styles him in Livius.org's translation as 'a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage'. It gives two self-descriptions: Persian, after the homeland of Pārsa in Fars, and Aryan, the old word for the Iranians.

    Era: Elam and the Achaemenid Empire

    Sources: DNa: the tomb inscription of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rostam · Livius.org