 Uranus-Neptune-Pluto conjunction 578-575 BCE Expansion of Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar); dominance of Aryans in N India; Greek rationalism, Greek westward colonisation; expansion of Phoenicians; decline of Egypt; Lao Tzu; rise of Zoroastrianism
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 Uranus square Pluto 552-551 BCE Growth of Zoroastrian Persia (Cyrus); Seven Wise Men of Greece, zenith of Delphic oracle
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 Uranus square Neptune 538-537 BCE Old Testament (Babylon); fall of Babylon and growth of Persia; freeing of Jews in Babylon; reforms in Athens (Peisistratus); founding of Jainism; Pythagoras at work
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 521-520 BCE Zenith of Persia; decline of Chou (China); teaching of the Buddha; Confucius at work; dominance of Maghada (India); foundation of Roman republic; democratic reforms in Athens
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 Uranus opposition Neptune 492-488 BCE Greeks beat Persians (Bt of Marathon); Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Analects of Confucius; ascendancy of Greece
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 Uranus square Pluto 473-471 BCE Socrates at work; rise of plebeians in Rome
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 Uranus square Neptune 454-452 BCE Maghada empire (India); La Tene Celtic culture at peak; consolidation of Jewish nation; Twelve Tables of Roman Law
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 437 BCE Jewish intermarriage with gentiles forbidden; competiton between Greek states for dominance
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 Neptune square Pluto 407-404 BCE Uranus square Pluto 405-404 BCE Uranus conjunct Neptune 404 BCE Historian Herodotus at work; zenith of Chavin culture (Bolivia); end of Athenian dominance in Greece; Warring States Era starts, China; sudden decline of Olmec civilisation, Mexico; writing of Mahabharata and the Pentateuch
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 381-379 BCE Rome rebuilt after sacking by Celts (formative time for Rome); Plato at work; ascendancy of Maghada (India); birth of Nazca culture (Peru)
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 Uranus square Neptune 367-365 BCE Roman expansionism in Italy; decline in Greece, end of independent city-states; Mongol incursions into China (Great Wall begun); change in Mexico
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 Neptune opposition Pluto 333-332 BCE Zenith of Chinese philosophy; founding of Mayan city-states; Alexander the Great takes Greece, dramatic invasion of Near East; coinage used in Rome, Roman expansion; expansion of Ch'u, rise of Qin dynasty, China.
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 323 BCE Uranus opposition Neptune 321-17 BCE End of Alexander's empire, kgdms of the Diadochi (successors); rise of Mauryan dynasty (India); rise of Tumaco culture (Colombia); Mencius, philosopher; independence of Armenia
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 Uranus square Pluto 298-97 BCE Euclid, mathematician; fall of Chorrera culture (Equador); Sarmatians invade Ukraine from Siberia; Sun Temple at Teotihuacan built
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 Uranus square Neptune 283-280 BCE Romans invade Corsica (first foreign growth); Aristarchus, astronomer; decline of Greece; Celtic expansion in Turkey and Iberia
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 264-261 BCE Ashoka, Mauryan emperor (India); First Punic War, Romans v Carthage; balance shifts from Greece to Rome
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 Uranus square Pluto 217-214 BCE Unification of China by Shi Huang-ti, then rise of Han dynasty; Hannibal & Carthaginian invasion of Italy (Romans later win); ascendancy of Teotihuacan, Mexico
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 Uranus square Neptune 195-194 BCE Growth of Moche culture, Peru; migration south into Germany of Teutonic tribes; decline of Buddhist Mauryan dynasty, N India
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 Uranus conjunct Pluto 182 BCE Flourishing of Nazca culture, Peru; Hundu Shunga dynasty, N India; peak of Greek Bactria (Afghanistan) & Taxila (Pakistan); rise of pre-Hopi Basketmaker culture, SW USA
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 Neptune square Pluto 158-155 BCE Uranus square Pluto 151-150 BCE Uranus opposition Neptune 150-146 BCE Patanjali, philosopher, India; Parthians dominate Persia; organisation of Roman conquered provinces; Hipparchus, astronomer; expansion of Han China (Han Wu Ti)
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 Uranus opposition Pluto 127-125 BCE Reform movement in Rome (Gracchus bros); compilation of Taoist philosophy (Liu Teh); movement of Yueh-Chi and Hsiung-Nu tribes from Mongolia westwards; growth of Han China
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 Uranus square Neptune 111-108 BCE Teuton tribes occupying Germany, beat Romans back; Silk Road securely open, stable empires across Eurasia; state of Moche, Peru
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 Uranus square Pluto 99 BCE Wu Ti brings Han China to a zenith
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 Neptune conjunct Pluto 84-83 BCE Battle for the future of Rome (civil war); zenith in Armenia; collapse of Parthia; reform in imperial China; expansion of the Germans (Suevi and others); Hopewell culture, Ohio; stability and trade across Asia
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