First Century

See also: List of centuries , Roman numerals

The ^first century starts on ¹ January 1 and ends on 31 December 100.

• The population of Rome more than a million inhabitants.
• Significant migration worldwide.
• Monotheistic sects are waiting for the Messiah, or who say he has already come swarming at least 42 listed.

Africa

• Migration of peoples Bantu.
• In Ethiopia , up to around AD, the inscriptions engraved on stone use dialects or Sabean Minaeans purely consonant of southern Arabia, after the Phoenician script. Until the ^third century , writing evolves to almost cursive letters, which are attached small signs marking the vowels. The language is also changing, and will write the name of Ge'ez , the name of a major group settled in Ethiopia, Aguzat.
• The island of Madagascar is inhabited by Pygmies from Africa (the mysterious Vazimba). In early Christian era, Indonesians have landed on the island after skirting the eastern coast of Africa. Around the same time, these Indonesians have introduced Asian plants hitherto unknown in this region, such the yam , the banana and coconut.
• In the early ^first century, the Romans complete conquest of the country Garamantes and settled in their capital Garama ( Djerma ).
• The mathematician and engineer Greek Heron founded his school of mechanics in Alexandria.

America

• Migration of peoples Arawaks to the West Indies.
• Growing Ipioutaks in Alaska Western (100-900). Disappearance of ceramic lamps, stone slabs and equipment whaling. Seasonal migration between the inside (winter) and the coast of the Arctic Ocean (summer) to hunt small mammals.
• Culture Eskimo Pacific south of Alaska (1-1600). Tooling plate stone, basalt and bone. Oil lamps made of stone. Mammal hunting and fishing (salmon).
• Period Basketmaker II in the south-western North America (1-500). Villages for up to eleven houses circular ground slightly depressed, built on cliffs overlooking the river flats where they grow corn. Most food plants are still collected.
• Emergence of complex cultures in the North Pacific Coast; wooden handicrafts developed.

China

• 9 : After the usurpation of Wang Mang , the reforms lead to revolts.
• 25 : Restoration of Han by a descendant of the Liu family, Guangwudi.
• 42 and 43 : The Trung sisters' rebellion was suppressed by General Ma Yuan.
• Appearance of the wheel

Central Asia

• The merchant sends his Macedonian Maes Titianos agents directly from Syria to China by road from the Tarim.
• Treasury Bagram , the former Kapisa ( Afghanistan ) on the Silk Road ^(I - ^IV ), discovered in 1938 in two stores walled: Chinese lacquers, ivory plaques, statues and chests of India alabaster vases, bronze statues, glassware and weight scales Roman Mediterranean.

Southeast Asia

• In Cambodia , the I ^st to the ^sixth century , a kingdom Indianized, Funan , established in the delta and the middle reaches of Mekong River , dominates the south of Indochina by its economic and military power. He enjoys political and cultural relations with China and India.
• The west of the archipelago of Indonesia is part of a network centered on the Funan city-port states that trade with India and China. Outrigger boats "Indonesian" come to trade on the east coast of Africa.
• Buddhist center Peitkhano in Burma Central (the I ^st to V ^th century ). The city, surrounded by a wall of bricks from three open doors, covers 800 ha. Which identified the remains of over a hundred brick structures: urn burials, brick buildings used for administration, religion or rituals, similar to that monastery in southern India, surrounded by two stupas. Most homes are made of bamboo or wood.

India

• Migration of peoples Kushan (Kusan) from the Central Asia. They seized the Gandhara and Punjab and conquered the Ganges valley to Pataliputra.
• The Andhra (Satavahana dynasty) established their power in the northern Deccan, around Pratisthan (Paithan).
• Formation of the powerful kingdom Chola in the extreme south of the territory.
• Extensive irrigation systems in Ceylon.
• Composition of the Puranas ^(I - V ^century ).

Europe

• 43 : Start of the occupation of southern British Isles by the Romans.
• Wooden statues votive filed in the sources of the Seine, dressed in the hooded cape or torque typically Gallic tradition. Sources Chamalires and those of the Seine serve as sanctuaries where deposited hundreds of ex-voto carved wood, jewelry, coins, mostly after the Roman conquest. The Gallo-Roman perpetuate a cult which dates back to the Bronze Age ( La Tene ).
• The Chatti , established in Hesse , subjecting Cherusci at the end of the century.
• Roman Iron Age in Scandinavia (100-400). Germanic peoples, like the Cimbri (Kimbri) of Himmerland ( Denmark ) and the Teutons (Teutons, from Thy Denmark), migrate south. The Danes, who came from Southern Sweden, settled in Denmark during the Roman Iron Age.
  • Scandinavians, through various intermediaries, forge trade links with the Roman world intermittent (objects of Roman origin in the graves). Exchanges are also slaves of both sexes and leather. It is likely that the Frisians have played an important role in relays by the Rhine, but there are other routes by the Danube and Bohemia ( Marcomanni ) or from Gotland by the Elbe , the Oder and the Vistula. A path is already leading to the Black Sea via rivers and lakes in Russia.
• Finns to Estonia settle in southern Finland.
• Necropolis Krankmrtenkgen in Lapland Southern (1-200). Cremation graves marked by rows of triangular stones. Traces of sacrifices of animals.
• According to Jordanes , the Gothic historian ^sixth century , the Goths , from Sweden , crossing the Baltic Sea and settled on the banks of the Vistula. In ^the third century , they migrate south and are found in the estuary of the Danube on the banks of the Black Sea.
• Pliny the Elder mentions the people of Veneti who inhabit the valley of the Vistula "to the Gulf of Veneti (Baltic). Tacitus hesitates whether to regard them as Germans or Sarmatians , because their customs are similar to those two peoples.
• Pliny the Elder ( 23 - 79 ) has knowledge of a route of the amber , leaving Carnutum on the Danube River flowing into the Baltic Sea. It is said that Nero sent a Roman knight "in the land of amber" and that he could return to Rome.

Rome

• Domination of the Mediterranean basin. Pax Romana.
• Flavian Dynasty ( 69 / 96 ).
• Julio-Claudian dynasty ( 1 / 68 )

Oceania

• Migration of peoples Polynesians across the Pacific.

Middle East ( Judea )

• In the ^first century, the population of Judea was composed mostly of people of Greek origin, a third of Jews, and some groups of Arabs and Nabataeans.

• The Christianity , emerged in response to the preaching of Jesus of Nazareth was brought by the apostles. He lay among the Hellenized Jews and Gentiles , thanks to Paul of Tarsus.

• A first meeting of the apostles and elders, called Council of Jerusalem , was held to 50 on the observance of traditional rules of Judaism.

• Drafting of the Didache , teaching of the Twelve Apostles (between 60 and 90, beginning late ^first century or early ^second century?).

• Subsequently, this new religion spread with much greater force to Rome and Europe in Judea itself, and separated from Judaism which she sprang.

• During this century, the situation became difficult, the Roman governors of Judea were despots and Jews were driven to revolt. Of Jewish fanatics, zealots , staged a violent uprising in 66 , which was crushed in 70 by Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus. Jerusalem was retaken and the Temple of Jerusalem destroyed. The capture of the fortress of Masada in 74 marks the end of the Jewish-Roman War.

• After the destruction of the Second Temple ( 70 CE ), the priests and Sadducees were eliminated. Yohanan ben Zakkai received the transfer of the Sanhedrin in Yavneh , where stood the Council of Yavne (between 90 and 100 EC ). The rabbis Pharisees alone remained in contention, and their vision of Judaism has gradually structured from the ^second century , in the form of Rabbinic Judaism.

Significant Figures

• Jesus of Nazareth.

Political Leaders

• Nero (Anzio, 37 - Rome , 68 ), Roman emperor ( 54 - 68 ).
• Trajan , 53 - 117 , Roman emperor.

Scientists

• Pliny the Elder ( 23 - 79 ), naturalist.
• Cai Lun (ca 50 -ca 121 ), Chinese Minister of Agriculture , codifies the art of making paper.

Philosophers

• Seneca ( -4 - 65 ), tutor and adviser to Nero , Roman philosopher of the school Stoic.
• Epictetus ( 50 - 130 ), Greek philosopher of the school Stoic.

Historians

• Flavius Josephus ( 37 -ca 100 ), general and historian.
• Plutarch ( 46 - 125 ), Greek historian.
• Tacitus ( 55 - 120 ), Roman historian.
• Suetonius (ca 69 - 125 ), Roman historian.

Religious

• Paul of Tarsus (AC 10 , AC 65 ), the central figure of early Christianity.

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