The Great Migration sweeps across Europe
The Great Migration was a period during which there were widespread invasions of Germanic tribes and others within or into Europe, during and after the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
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Humanity creates democracy in Ancient Greece
In the year 507 B.C.E., the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia, or “rule by the people.”
The Agora thrives as public commons space in ancient Athens
From the 6th and until the 1st century B.C.E. the Agora as the heart of the government and the judiciary, as a public place of debate, as a place of worship, and as marketplace.
The first Olympic games begin in Greece
They continued for nearly 12 centuries, until Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 C.E. that all such “pagan cults” be banned.
Members of Akkadian Empire make perhaps first-ever written record of composting food waste for agriculture
Though the Akkadians may have been the first to record the use of compost, the practice likely began long before the advent of writing.