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The sixth century BC. BC starts on January 1, -600 and ends on December 31 -501 , inclusive.
Summary |
Events
China
- The Silk Road is set up between China and the West (Greece, Rome, Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Great Britain). From China comes the silk, mirrors and bronze objects Han , ceramics, spices and lacquers, exchanged against gold, silver, ivory, semiprecious stones, coral, amber and glass.
- From 600 BC. BC , the old order is slowly degraded. At the aristocratic hierarchy, respect for traditional articles, replace power relations, not just between realms but also and especially within the same realm. Large families lead to violent struggles to gain power, princes and barons opposed, and heads of kingdoms trying to break free of the most powerful families. These struggles sometimes result in the elimination of inbred nobility in favor of new men who are totally dedicated to the Prince (along with Jin at the end of the seventh century BC. ), sometimes to the usurpation of done (to Lu in -562 ), sometimes to the complete usurpation of the prerogatives of princes (to Qi in the early fifth century BC. , sometimes territorial divisions (with Jin -453 ).
Southeast Asia
- Development of societies living in the sea in Southeast Asia in the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Aden.
- Indo-European tribe of Sakya stood at the border of India and Nepal.
- Sixteen principalities developed in the valley of the Ganges , around large cities protected by walls of mud brick.
Middle East
- In 587 BC. AD , Jerusalem was captured by the Chaldeans , the temple was destroyed and the kingdom of Judah Babylonian province becomes simple. Some 20,000 people, most of its economic and political elite, are deported to Babylon. The Jews will discover the Zoroastrianism.
Europe
Greek World
- Birth of democracy in ancient Greece , through Solon , who wrote the first constitution of Athens (as a poem), the first constitution written in the world.
- Sparta took the lead of the Peloponnesian League.
- Larissa , a stronghold of Aleuades directs the Thessalian Confederacy.
- Colonization of Tauric Chersonese (now the Crimea ). Milesian colonization in the Bridge ( Sinope , Trapezus ).
- Athens seizes Sigeum colony of Lesbos on the Hellespont at the beginning of the century.
Italy
- Between the late sixth century and the mid-fifth century, a republican regime based on oligarchic tyranny is established in most cities Etruscan society which grows almost equal (gender and class only).
- The expansion of the Etruscans is peaceful north to Florence and the plain of the Po , south to the Tiber where people italics ( Faliscans , Capenates and Latins ) are trusquises.
- Apogee commercial traffic Etruscan : wine and oil to the Corsica , the Sardinia , the Sicily , Carthage , the Provence , the Languedoc ( Lattes ) and Greece.
Western Europe
- Civilization Iberian in Andalusia : Turdetani the Guadalquivir , Bastetani eastern Andalusian Constetani of Elche.
- Iberian peoples, who share a common religion (sanctuary of Cerro de los Santos of Elche , in Despeaperros) have a society dominated by aristocratic leaders that the warriors are bound to death by ties of loyalty. Their structure is confirmed by military fortresses that the Romans will be difficult to conquer, or like Osuna Carmona in Andalusia and Sagunto in Valencia.
- Installing Celts, whose Lusitano in the west of the Iberian Peninsula. They develop the metallurgy of bronze and iron, stone houses built of circular plan.
- The lowlands of northern Europe are occupied for the first time; constitutions artificial hills called terpen or Wierden.
- Stabilization of Greek trade in the Western Mediterranean
Eastern Europe
- The Celts settled in Burgundy to Austria.
- Pomeranian civilization in Poland (about 600-200 BC.).
- Kurgan of Kostromskaya in the Kuban region. Cubical wooden burial chamber topped by a pyramidal roof supported by massive beams of 3.2 m, covered with a mound of earth. Skeletons of 13 servants and 22 horses killed. Spearheads, shields, iron swords. Gold objects and bronze from the Greek colonies of the Black Sea.
Significant Figures
In ancient Greece :
- Solon (640-558 BC.) legislator and poet Athenian , wrote a poem that is sometimes considered as the first constitution written in the world , that of Athens , and was estimated to Plato and Aristotle it is a precursor of Athenian democracy.
- Cleisthenes (Athens) , legislator of Athens , founded the Athenian democracy (508 BC.).
- Pythagoras , philosopher, mathematician and astronomer at Crotone (Italy).
- Thales of Miletus , mathematician, businessman, astronomer, engineer, philosopher and founder of the Milesian school. It is considered the father of geometry.
- Cleobulus , tyrant of Lindos in Rhodes , one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Lygdamis , tyrant of Naxos. Anacharsis , Scythian philosopher, a forerunner of the cynics. Canachos , Antenor of Athens , Aglada of Argos , Archmos Chios, sculptors. Xenophanes founded the philosophical school of Elea. Hipponax Ephesus, Phocylides of Miletus , Theognis of Megara (c. -540 ), Ibycus of Rheghion , poets. Sappho , poetess to Mytilene (born c. -610 ). Aesop , fabulist. Thespis , tragic poet, carries the first troupe. Mimnerme Smyrna, didactic poet.
India:
- At the foot of the Himalayas , was born a prince named Siddhartha Gautama. It is also known as Shakyamuni (the sage of the Sakya clan) and is remembered as the Buddha (the Enlightened).
China:
- Confucius , whose moral principles still govern the life of the Chinese.
- Lao-Tzu (or Grand Master), the founder of Taoism.
Middle East:
- Zoroaster , prophet, reformer of Zoroastrianism , whose intellectual depth exerted a great influence on the Judeo-Christian doctrines.
- Cyrus II the Great , king of Persia
- King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- In China , beginning the process of significant iron smelting.
- The iron reaches the SSA ( Meroe ).
- Use of war elephants in India.
- Establishment of the caste system in India , quoted in a late text of the Rig-Veda.
- Identification of Lydian and Greek coins ( Miletus ).
- The doctor Alcmaeon practical dissection of animals.
- Emergence of key Greece attributed to Theodore of Samos; the key were already known to the Hebrews and Egyptians.
- First traces of modern currency in ancient Greece.
Arts & Culture
- Peak of the Archaic Period in Greece : expansion of Hellenism in the Mediterranean, artistic development unprecedented rise in Ionia the "Greek thought".
- Prinias temple in Crete (friezes of carved stones). The wooden columns of the temple of Hera in Olympia were replaced by stone drums. - First stone Doric column full attested to Delphi. First known large portico built at Samos.
- Attic black-figure pottery.
- In Etruria , the appearance of a form of sculpture inspired by Greek models and Oriental, particularly in the area Vulci ( Winged Lion Vulci , v. 550 - 540 BC. )
- Vedic literature attested in India ( Sustrai ).
- Writing Kharoshthi, original Aramaic, appears in India.
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