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HOW IT WORKS
700s BC (decade)
Summary
This article concerns the period
709 BC – 700 BC
.
Events and trends
edit
709 BC—First reported use of the
conducting
staff in a performance by "Pherekydes of Patrae, giver of rhythm".
708 BC—Traditional date of the foundation of Croton (modern
Crotone
) by colonists from
Achaea
.
[1]
708 BC—
Tellis of Sicyon
wins the stadion race at the 18th
Olympic Games
.
707 BC—
Spring and Autumn period
:
Duke Zhuang of Zheng
defeats the armies of
King Huan of Zhou
, becoming the first vassal of the ruler of
China
to revolt.
706 BC—Traditional date when
Spartan
immigrants found
Taras
(
Tarentum
, the modern
Taranto
)
colony
in
southern Italy
.
[1]
706 BC—The Assyrian royal court is moved to
Dur-Sharrukin
.
705 BC—
Sargon II
, king of
Assyria
, dies.
705 BC—
Sennacherib
succeeds his father Sargon II.
[2]
704 BC—Sennacherib moves the
capital
of Assyria to
Nineveh
.
[3]
704 BC—Menos of
Megara
wins the stadion race at the 19th Olympic Games.
701 BC—
November 10
—King
Hezekiah
of
Judah
, backed by the
Kingdom of Kush
, revolts against King Sennacherib of Assyria. Sennacherib sacks many
Israelite
cities, but fails in his attempt to take
Jerusalem
.
700 BC—The
Scythians
start settling in
Cimmerian
areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.
700 BC—End of the
Villanovan culture
in
northern Italy
and rise of the
Etruscan civilization
.
700 BC—The
Upanishads
, a sacred text of
Hinduism
, are written around this time.
700 BC—
Atheradas of Laconia
wins the stadion race at the 20th Olympic Games.
[4]
c. 700 BC—Geometric period of vases ends in
Ancient Greece
.
Orientalizing
period of vases starts. It starts in
Corinth
.
c. 700 BC—
Hesiod
writes "
Theogony
".
c. 700 BC–
509 BC
—
Etruscan
supremacy period in
Italy
.
c. 700 BC — Construction of the
Temple of Yeha
in
Ethiopia
After c. 700 BC – Cities again begin to appear on the
Indian subcontinent
, especially in the north.
Deaths
edit
701 BC—
Duke Zhuang of Zheng
, China.
References
edit
^
a
b
E.J. Bickerman,
Chronology of the Ancient World
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), p. 197
^
Luckenbill, Daniel David (1924).
The Annals of Sennacherib
(PDF)
. University of Chicago Press. p. 9.
^
Harrison, Thomas (2009).
The Great Empires of the Ancient World
. Getty Publications. p. 73.
ISBN
978-0-89236-987-4
.
^
Eusebius of Caesarea
,
Chronicle
[1].