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Summary |
Far East
- Period of Spring and Autumn : The hegemons, feudal princes of Qi (Chi), the Jin (Chin) of Chu (Chu) of Wu and Yue triumphed in China because they preside over the rites of alliance between cities in the seventh and sixth centuries BC. BC, which allows them to impose their domination over the weak.
- Peripheral kingdoms of Qi, Jin and Chu assert their autonomy and their independence from the religious capital of Zhou. They develop local cultures by the original fusion of Chinese with the indigenous populations. The nobility of Jin is so barbaric morning as a result of its trade in women with Di, non-Chinese population of Shanxi. The chiefdoms local barbarians, slowly assimilated, appear to have played a major role in shaping the country of Qin. The country seems Chu abroad by its culture and language to the Chinese Great Plain. Wu and Yue in the plains of the lower Yangtze and along the coasts of the estuary, Zhejiang, southeast develop an independent culture.
- In Korea , immigration of people from Manchuria and North China during the Bronze Age (VII - VI centuryBC.).
Central Asia
- Tagar time (-700/-300). Permanent establishments (some fortified) of Scythians in the steppe warrior people, rich and powerful. Armored cavalry.
- Proto-Turks on the Altai.
Middle East
- Reign of Achaemenes , legendary king of Persia.
Western Europe
- The Carthaginians settled in Malatya in Baria ( Villaricos ) in Spain and the Balearic Islands (Mago).
- Cities Etruscan are made on the basis of villages Villanovan. At the end of the century a league of Etruscan cities (dodecapole) itself into Etruria.
- Celtic presence attested to the Netherlands (the tomb of a leader in Oss ).
- Production Armorica tens of thousands of socketed axes rectangular bronze with high lead content, and used as a monetary standard as ingots to the British Isles, Netherlands, North Germany, Alps, Switzerland, the Rhone Valley and South. A late filing will remain similar during the first Iron Age in the Aude and Herault (the Launacien).
Eastern Europe
- Stand wind to Troy.
- Tyranny of Cypslides from -655 to Corinth.
- Argos dominated the Peloponnese.
- Boeotian confederacy.
- Amphictyony pylaio-Delphic (seventh - the fourth century BC. )
- Amphictyony Delian Ionians islands.
- Corinth founded Ambracia to -657 at the bottom of a gulf in the Ionian Sea north-western Greece.
- Miletus colonized Sinope to -630 on a peninsula on the southern coast of the Black Sea and Amisos at the end of the century, on the southern coast of the Black Sea.
- Sinope founded Trebizond on the Black Sea at the foot of the mountains Pontian.
- In Athens , the study of tombs and headstones of the period 700 - 650 BC. AD suggests the return to power of Agde and suggests a division of society into two groups, which could be Eupatridae and farmers dependent ( hectmores ) mentioned in the texts.
Significant Figures
- Thales of Miletus ( Ionia ) ( to -625 - about 547 ).
- Zarathoustra.
- Guan Zhong , Qi Minister; tradition assigns the Guanzi , dating actually work from the late Warring States.
- Callinus of Ephesus ( Ionia ), elegiac poet (peak in -690 ).
- Arion of Methymna ( Lesvos ), poet.
- Tyrtaeus of Aphidnae ( Attica ), poet and advisor to Sparta (peak -612 - -609 ).
- Terpander of Lesbos , poet and musician (peak between -700 and -650 ).
- Thaltas of Gortyn (Crete) , musician, inventor of the paean ( to -670 - -640 ).
- Nahum is the seventh of the twelve minor prophets who lived in the Kingdom of Judah.
Economy and Society
- End of commercial monopoly Euboeans. Aegina is the culmination of a trade network between East and Etruria.
Art and culture
- Middle East, from the seventh century BC. BC, the Aramaic language itself as the international trade taking the place of Akkadian.
- Discovery of a library of the seventh century BC. AD in Sultan Tepe, near Harran in Turkey , probably belonging to a priest. It consists mostly of literary texts (Epic of Gilgamesh , Poem of the Just suffering myth of Nergal , the god of death, a historical text and a humorous text).
- Oriental art in Greece (up archaic) (-700/-600) and Etruria.
- At Eleutherna in Crete Western excavation of a necropolis ( 1990 - in 1992 ) has revealed the remains of funeral pyres certifying the existence of human sacrifice.
- First major temples in the rectangular Heraion of Samos and the sanctuary of Artemis Orthia to Sparta. These temples, often built in conjunction with habitat, derived from the civil architecture of the preceding period ( Lefkandi ). We can conclude that the Greek temples appear when the monarchy will disappear from some areas.
- Foundation's sanctuary at Delphi , dedicated to Apollo.
- Hypothetical trip of Aristeas of Proconnesus , worshiper of Apollo, the Scythians.
- In Europe, groups of the first Celtic Iron Age is divided into two geographical areas: the western zone, with the holders of the sword, Eastern Zone, with the holders of the ax. The ceramic forms of Commons, but the decoration is different. In the West, abstract patterns inherited from the Bronze Age, while a more narrative style is developing in the East: the urns Sopron (Hungary) or Fischbach (Bavaria), dated seventh century BC . AD show schematic figures, dancers, musicians, weavers, women with raised arms and war. On vessels, bronze by beating Kleinklein Cemetery (eastern Austria), figurative (parades of mystical characters and hunting) is associated with the geometric tradition. One of the graves has a human face and hand cut from sheets of bronze Illyrian influence in the world nearby (funerary masks Gold Foil Treben, Yugoslavia). Mythological characters (great goddesses, warriors ithyphallic, deer, wild boar) are staged on the carriage votive Stregweg (Styria) deposited in an incinerator.
Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions
- Late eighth centuryBC. BC in Greece : Technical Progress (navigation, weapons, industry, etc..). Development of the trireme.
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