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7th century BC

(8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC - other centuries)

(700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades)

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

Events:

Scythians arrived in Asia
Collapse of Susa, end of Elam
Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC-670 BC)
Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria(612 BC)
Japanese capital founded
Zoroastrianism founded

Significant persons:

Thales of Miletus (625 BC (?) - 546 BC (?))
Sappho of Lesbos
Zarathushtra

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

First coins used by Lydians
Iron allegedly discovered in China

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