| 600's BC | Europe | Merchants from Phocis in central Greece made a treaty with Keltoi in Spain, trading goods for the Keltoi's silver. | |
| 600's | Italy | Etruscans from advanced civilization in Italy took Latium, built Rome, occupy north and central Italy, develop gladiator games, arches, the study of animals to predict the future | |
| 600's | Italy | Greeks occupy southern Italy and Sicily, add to the Roman alphabet, mythology, religious concepts and the arts, later controlled by Samnites | |
| 600's | Mesopotamia | The Epic of Creation and the Epic of Gilamesh were written in Mesopotamia | |
| 600's | Phoenicians sail around Africa | ||
| 600's | Olmec Aztec Indians disappear | ||
| 600's | Mayans channel water and increase their population and drank cocoa | ||
| 600's | Persian prophet Zarathustra founds Zoroastrianism: a cosmic struggle between good and evil | ||
| 600's | Aesop said: "We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office." | ||
| 600's | Nomadic Scythians introduce the Celts to trousers | ||
| 690 | Nubian pharoah Taharka takes over Egypt and Nubian states | ||
| 689 | Paletine | Sennacherib took Sidon, devasted Judah, destroyed Babylon, but failed to take Jerusalem | |
| 671 | Essarhaddon of Assyria sacks Thebes, makes Egypt to Thebes an Assyian territory including Phoenicia | ||
| 668-661 | Ashurbanipal of Assyria trips into Egypt, sacking Thebes on the second but did not gain control. His empire would include Babylonia, Persia, Syria | ||
| 663 | Kushites driven out of Egypt and back to Sudan | ||
| 660 | Founding of Byzantium by Greeks | ||
| 652 | Psamtik became master of Egypt with help from Gyges, King of Lydia | ||
| 651 | Egypt | Assyrians driven out of Egypt | |
| 650 | China | China legalizes lady lovers, the first legalized prostitution | |
| 648 | Mesopotamia | Assyrian king Assurbanipal, son of Sennacherib, destroys just rebuilt Babylon | |
| 642 | Egypt | Arabs establish a military settlement in Egypt (Cairo) | |
| 640 | Greece | Building of the Acropolis in Athens Spartan government becomes militaristic |
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| 626 | Time of the last biblical prophet, Jeremiah | ||
| 625 | Syria | Damascus under Babylonian rule | |
| Greece | First Greek philosopher and scientist Thales born in Miletus, Anatolia, Turkey | ||
| 616 | Italy | Tarquinius Priscus became the first Etruscan to rule Rome | |
| 612 | Greece | Sappho, famous Greek poetress born in Lesbos (became word Lesbian?) | |
| Mesopotamia | Nabopolasser, King of Babylonia and Cyaxares of Media (Chaldeans) destroyed Ninevah, divided the Assyrian empire | ||
| Phoenicia | Phoenicians are independent again , later controlled by Persia | ||
| 609 | Palestine | Pharoah Necho conquered Josiah and Judah, failed to build the canal connecting the Red Sea and the Nile, pushed out of Asia by Nebuchrezzar of Babylon at Carchemish | |
| 605 | Nebuchrezzar of Babylon defeated Egyptian Necho, Judah became Babylonian. Nebuchrezzar took Palestine but not Tyre, Assyria ceased to exist | ||
| 604 | China | Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism born | |
| 500's | Europe | The Le Tene Celtic culture developed in eastern France and southern Germany, developing into the Celtic style | |
| 586 | Palestine | Zedekiah and others defied Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar who sacked
Jerusalem, destroyed Solomon's temple and ended the Kingdom of Judah Ezekial of the bible taken to Babylon as captive Jews dispersed throughout Europe |
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| 586 | Phoenicia | Phoenicia was ruled by Nebuchrezzar of Babylon, independent under Ball and then Hirma II | |
| 585 | May 25th or 28th. Thales had predicted an eclipse, and its appearance was so starting it stopped a battle between the kings of Lydia nd Media. | ||
| Greeks settled in Bulgaria on the Black Sea, followed by Turks, Romans, Byzantines | |||
| 565 | Cyprus | Cyprus was controlled by Egypt | |
| 563 | India | Buddha aka Siddhartha Gautama was born in Napal, India April 8th | |
| 551 | China | Confucius ,Chinese philosopher, was born in Chufu, China | |
| 550 | Persia | Cyrus starts the Persian Empire | |
| 547 | Anatolia | Cyrus from Persia ended the Phrygain dynasty in Anatolia completely | |
| 538 | Gobryas, a general under Cyrus, took Babylonia under Persian rule, who also takes Lybia, Egypt and India | ||
| 538 | Syria | Damascus under Persian rule | |
| 538 | Babylon | Gobryas, Cyrus general, took Babylon under Persian rule | |
| 538 | Phoenicia | Divided into four kingdoms: Sidon, Type, Arwad, Byblos | |
| 530 | Greece | Pythagorus of the Pythagorean theorem founds the city of Croton, Greece | |
| 529 | Persia | Cyrus died, leaving his empire to his son, Cambyses | |
| 528 | India | Buddha discovered the Awakening or Four Great Truths | |
| 525 | Egypt | Dynasty XXVII, Cambyses defeated Psamtik III at Pelusim, Egypt now under Persian rule | |
| Greece | Temple of Hera, 1 of the 7 ancient Wonders built on Samos Island,
Greece Beginning of the Greek dramas and plays |
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| 525 | India | Persian empire takes Afghanistan, and defeated "the Armenians" | |
| 520 | Palestine | Rebuilding of Solomon's temple (finished Mar 10, 515) | |
| 517 | India | Darius of Persia takes the Indus Valley | |
| 509 | Italy | Romans drove out Etruscans from Rome. Last Estruscan king ruled Rome,
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus. Roman republic established with divided classes Patricians and Plebeians |
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| 504 | Palestine | Ekron, Philistine burns to the ground, Samuel of the bible's city | |
| 500 | End of the Hallstatt Period, beginning of the Tene Period | ||
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