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| 877 BC–777 BC || || || Early Jain called {{w|Parshvanatha}} teaches followers about ''ahimsa'' (non-violence), one of the cornerstone beliefs meaning non-violence to living forms.<ref name="WHO WERE">{{cite web |title=WHO WERE THE WORLD’S VERY EARLIEST VEGANS? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/who-were-the-world-s-very-earliest-vegans-a7668831.html |website=independent.co.uk |accessdate=30 September 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
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| 520BC 520 BC || Vegetarianism || Policy || "CYRUS THE GREAT (520 BPersian emperor {{w|Cyrus the Great}} is born.C. born) Emperor of Persia, who conquered many lands and raised Persia from an obscure country into a great Empire was not only A vegetarian himself but ordered , Cyrus would order his soldiers also strictly to adhere to this diet. His army conquered wherever it went, Xenophen says that Cyrus was brought up upon a diet of bread, cresses, and water till the age of fifteen, when honey and raisins were added."<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> ||
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| 500 BC || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || Greek philosopher {{w|Pythagoras}} advocates the idea that all animals have immortal souls which would be reincarnated after death. Pythagoras promotes benevolence among all species and follows what could be described as a vegetarian diet.<ref name="The Vegan Society">{{cite web |title=The Vegan Society |url=https://www.vegansociety.com/about-us/history |website=vegansociety.com |accessdate=30 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="WHO WERE"/> || {{w|Greece}}
| 5 BC–65 AD || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || Roman Stoic philosopher {{w|Seneca}} lives. An ardent vegetarian, Seneca creates a vegetarian cult in the Court.<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> ||
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| 40AD–120AD 40 AD–120 AD || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || "PLUTARCH (40 to 120 A.D. approx.) Prince of Biographers and HistoriansGreek philosopher {{w|Plutarch}} lives. His essay on flesh eating contains ethical arguments for vegetarianism not superseded. A few excerpts follow :" ""Alas for our savage inhumanity! It is a terrible thing to see the table of rich men decked out by those layers-out of corpses: the butchers and cooks; a still more terrible sight is the same table after the feast - for the wasted relics are even more than the consumption. These victims, then, have given us their lives uselessly. As other times, from mere niggardliness, the host will grudge to distribute his dishes, and yet he grudged not to deprive innocent beings of their existence!"<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/>
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| 160AD–230AD || || || "TERTULLIAN (160-230 A.D.) of the Early Christian Fathers." ""It is in the cooking-pots that your love is inflamed - it is in the kitchen that your faith grows fervid - it is in the flesh dishes that all your hope lies hid... who is held in so much esteem with you as the frequent giver of dinners, as the sumtuous entertainer, as the practised toaster of healths?"<ref name="5th CENTURY A.D"/> ||
