700s BC (decade)

This article concerns the period 709 BC – 700 BC.

Events and trends

• 708 BC—Traditional date of the foundation of Croton (modern Crotone) by colonists from Achaea.^[1]
• 706 BC—Traditional date when Spartan immigrants found Taras (Tarentum, the modern Taranto) colony in southern Italy.^[1]
• 706 BC—Sargon II dies.
• 705 BC—Sennacherib succeeds his father Sargon II as king of Assyria.
• 704 BC—Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyria to Nineveh.
• 701 BC November 10—Deliverance from Assyrian attack; King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Nubian Empire, 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.
• 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.
• After c. 700 BC – Cities again begin to appear on the Indian subcontinent, especially in the north.

Significant people

• 701 BC—Death of Duke Zhuang of Zheng, China.

References