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This page relates to the year -556 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Pisistrate is recalled of exile by Mégaclès, chief of the oligarchical party.
Chilon becomes éphore of Sparte. It is one of the wise Seven of Greece. It makes entrust to the éphores the right to deposit the kings.

the political regime Spartan is oligarchical if one considers the whole of the population but can seem democratic if one stops with the Homoioi (citizens Spartans). Two Kings are selected in two distinct families, the Agiades and the Eurypontides. They have a primarily military and religious capacity. The Gérousie is an aristocratic assembly made up of 28 old men of more than 60 years, appointed for lives by acclamations. They exert judicial powers and have a right to veto on the decisions of the assembly. The éphore S, five, represent the people. They form a true government which exert a judicial and executive power. The assembled , which votes the decisions, seems to have a limited capacity.

the kingdom of Kashî (Bénarès) is annexed by that of Kosala which becomes a powerful State directed by Prasenajit.

Labâshi-Marduk succeeds his/her father Nériglissar. He is tortured with died at the end of two months of reign. Nabonide, governor of Babylon, old sixty years, is carried to the capacity by the party of the entreated priests, probably favorable to the god Sîn.
At the beginning of its reign, Nabonide seems to continue the old traditions. It goes in the south to regulate administrative problems and carries out several forwardings in Raising.

At the top of its power, the néo-Babylonian empire as a whole occupies the basin mésopotamien, Piedmont of the Taurus and Raising it.

Nabonide, king very religious is undoubtedly the son of a governor araméen and a priestess of the sanctuary of Sîn to Harran. It dedicates a worship very particular to Sîn, the god-moon, worship which will be reproached to him by its enemies after the fall of Babylon (of which priests of Marduk, god until supported by the kings). It makes restore the temple of this god with Ur and ambitionne to restore that of Harran, destroyed by the Mèdes.

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