Talk:1st millennium BC

Span?

I guess the first millennium B.C. is supposed to be from 1000BC to 1BC. If this, or something else, is intended it would seem best to state it clearly. ~~reader —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.191.202.88 (talk) 22:08, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

Alphabet

• The Phoenicians develop and propagate the alphabet

We aren't that sure about the alphabet, are we? 203.162.3.147 05:26, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't the foundation of Japan be added? Japan was, according to thier histories, founded on February 11, 660 B.C. This is an important event, as Japan lasted through the ages, beyond Egypt and Rome, become a powerful nation-state in the late 1860s, and a world power less than thirty years later. -Alex, 12.220.157.93 10:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

BCE instead of BC

Current language should use BCE instead of BC, why does everything refer to BC instead?

brill (talk) 02:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

1st millennium BC: almost all references are Harts personal opinions

This is an important article, isn't it? Spanning 1000 years of history. However, almost all of the references are about one author's personal opinions on who was how influential. I think Wikipedia deserves better than that. IMO one should either delete all those references to Hart's list, or create Wikipedia articles for alternative lists (some of them listed below), and add links from famous persons to those alternative lists, too. Otherwise the Wikipedia information on the 1st millennium BC will reflect inappropriate bias towards Hart's personal opinions.

A top 10 list at http://www.faqs.org/shareranks/1338,Most-Influential-People-of-All-Time : 1 Manu (Shanker Mishra), 2 Einstein, 3 Socrates, 4 Aristotle, 5 Plato, 6 Newton, 7 Lao Tzu, 8 Moses, 9 Darwin, 10 Franklin.

A Japanese top 10 list http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/04/01/historys-100-most-influencial-people-hero-edition-video/ : 1 Sakamoto Ryoma, 2 Napoleon I, 3 Oda Nobunaga, 4 Saigo Takamori, 5 Miyamoto no Yoshitsune, 6 Jean of Arc, 7 Hideyoshi Toyotomi, 8 Albert Einstein, 9 Yutaka Ozaki, 10 Akechi Mitsuhide.

A top 7 list http://www.rateitall.com/t-1283-most-influential-people-in-world-history.aspx : 1 Jesus Christ, 2 Muhammad, 3 Adolf Hitler, 4 Ronald Reagan, 5 Albert Einstein, 6 Buddha, 7 Johann Gutenberg.

LIFE magazine's top 10 list http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/goth/MainPages/100_most_important_people.pdf : 1 Edison, 2 Columbus, 3 Luther, 4 Galileo, 5 Leonardo, 6 Newton, 7 Magellan, 8 Pasteur, 9 Darwin, 10 Jefferson.

Several lists are topped by Gutenberg, e.g.: http://www.falls.igs.net/~dphillips/biography3.htm

Another top 10 list http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=173626 : 1 Mohammed, 2 Aristotle, 3 Tsai Lun, 4 Johann Gutenberg, 5 Jesus of Nazareth, 6 Paul of Tarsus, 7 Shih Huang Ti, 8 Louis Pasteur, 9 Plato, 10 Siddhartha Guatama.

Yet another list found on the web: 1 Mitochondria Eve, 2 Jesus, 3 Mohammed, 4 Columbus, 5 Confucius, 6 Darwin, 7 Sun Yat-sen, 8 Karl Marx, 9 Buddha, 10 Rousseau.

Some of the numerous additional lists of this kind:

http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/most-influential-person-of-all-time.asp

http://www.worldtop.org/Culture/People/Most+influential+people+ever/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_are_the_25_most_important_people_in_history

http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=2971

Gimmemoretime (talk) 21:30, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Egyptian pharohs

Why are there so many egyptian pharohs on the list of important people. Many don't even have proper wiki articles. I understand that pharohs where important but their are more egyptian pharohs on this list then everybody else combined.meitme (talk) 01:38, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

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