300 BC – 290 BCs

Events in 300 BC – 290 BC 4

• 14000 BC – 300 BC Jomon period World's earliest pottery — hunter-gatherers of the islands The Jomon period is named for the cord-marked (jomon) pottery its people produced — among the oldest pottery in the world. These were sophisticated hunter-gatherers, fishers and foragers who lived a largely sedentary life in the Japanese archipelago for over ten thousand years, long before agriculture arrived.
• 300 BC – 1279 Chola dynasty (South India) A great maritime and temple-building power The Cholas of the Tamil south were one of the longest-ruling dynasties in history, rising from the Sangam age to a medieval maritime empire that projected naval power across the Bay of Bengal to Southeast Asia. They built magnificent temples such as the Brihadeeswarar at Thanjavur and patronised bronze sculpture and Tamil literature.
• 300 BC Euclid — Elements of Geometry The foundation of mathematics for 2,000 years Around 300 BC, Euclid of Alexandria wrote the Elements, a thirteen-volume treatise that systematised all known geometry into a rigorous axiomatic framework. Starting from just five postulates, he derived hundreds of theorems. The Elements became the most widely used mathematics textbook in history, used in schools until the 20th century, and established the model of deductive proof that underlies all mathematics.
• 300 BC – 300 Yayoi period Rice farming, bronze and iron arrive from the mainland The Yayoi period brought wet-rice cultivation, bronze and iron metallurgy, and the potter's wheel to Japan from Korea and China. These innovations drove population growth and the emergence of stratified society and local chieftaincies — the foundations of the Japanese state.