650 b.c.
Governance:
- The Messenians revolted against their Spartan rulers.
- Beginning of the second Messenian war.
- The town of Abdera was founded in Thrace by colonists from clazomena.
- Babylonia under the rule of Shamash-shuma-ukin rises in revolt against the Assyrians
- The first pyramid of the Teotihuacan culture was built in Cholula.
Cypselus becomes the first tyrant of Corinth
- Zhou Xiang Wang becomes King of the Zhou dynasty of China.
- In Greece it was the age of the tyrants.
- The Chinese licensed lady lovers. This is considered as the 1st example of legalized prostitution.
Technology:
- Ancient Greeks started using large diameter punches to imprint images and designs onto coins and tokens.
- Evidence of writing systems appear is Oaxaca
- Duns and Brochs first use in Scotland
- Iron tools being produced
Commerce:
- Greece began using the drachma for currency.
- Jade artifacts are traded in as far as southern central America
Institutions:
- Ball courts, used in ball game of central American civilizations, found in Olmec centuries
- Peraca culture develops in south Peru
- Ceremonial complex built in Chiripa, Lake Titicaca
- Hillforts begin to be constructed in the southwest
650 a.d.
Governance:
- An early Mayan classic temple in Copan was closed and covered.
- Ritual items of flint knives and stingray spines was later discovered.
- Civil strife occurred during this time, which followed about 30 years of drought. This led to the demise of the Moche civilization.
- The Khazars’ aggressive territorial expansion drove some Bulgars westward.
- The Bulgars soon founded a kingdom in the southeastern Balkans that is now known as Bulgaria.
- In Mexico the Teotihuacan culture began declining.
- Arabs introduced Islam to Afghanistan.
- A Saxon monk founded St. Botolph’s Town in England.
- Japanese emperor Kotoku unites Japan and issues Taika Reform Edicts.
- Byzantine empire retakes alexandria
Technology:
- Construction on the Dome of the Rock begins
- First Shinto shrines built in Japan
- Kallikinos invents Greek fire in Constantinople
Commerce:
- Traders from Arabia established Islamic settlements on the coast
Institutions:
- Buddhism reaches Tibet
- Buddhism replaced by Confucianism as a state religion in Japan.
- Mosque built in Kerala
- Monastery built on the isle of Lindisfame
- Pope Martin I is arrested by the exarch and taken to Constantinople
- Slavs establish established independent bohemian kingdom
- Hawaii islands are colonized from the Marquesas islands
- Kingdom of Nobatia is incorporated into Makuria
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