Visual Timeline: Xenophanes of Colophon

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570 BCE - 478 BCE: Life of Xenophanes of Colophon; claim of One God as the First Cause of existence.
 
 
500 BCE: Xenophanes discovers sea shells on mountains and deducts that the whole earth must once have been covered with water.
 
 
 
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