340s BC

Transportation

About this time or shortly afterward an unknown shipbuilder, probably a Phoenician, starts building ships with one or two banks of oars with each oar propelled by multiple rowers. Historians believe that the name of the type of ship became based on the number of rowers per oar multiplied by the number of banks. Thus, a quadrireme instead of having four banks of oars, each with a single rower, might have one bank with four files of rowers or two banks with two rowers per oar. Because of the length of the oars required, each rower must stand and fall back with each stroke; this provides additional power. See also 399 bce Transportation.

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Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	370s BC 360s BC 350s BC – 340s BC – 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC
Years:	349 BC 348 BC 347 BC 346 BC 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC 340 BC
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In 340 BC, Philip II of Macedon led an attack on Byzantium, leaving Alexander, now aged 16, to act as regent of Macedon.

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