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550 B.C. Beginnings of classical Greek philosophy The first Greek philosopher was Thales, a native of Miletus in Asia Minor in the 7th and 6th centuries BC.He tried to explain the world through natural causes instead of blaming everything on supernatural means. He believed water was the fundamental element of matter. The greatest of the Greek philosophers were Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Jainism Vardhamana Mahavira founded Jainism, one of India's major religions, in the 6th century BC. The movement began as a protest against Vedic Hinduism, the orthodoxy of the Indian era. Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great King Cyrus II, known as Cyrus welded the Medes and the Persian tribes into a single Persian, or Achaemenid, empire in the middle of the 6th century BC the Great.
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