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Events

Far East

  • Period of Springs and the Falls: Let us hégémons, feudal princes of IQ (Tsi), of the Jin (Tsin), of the Chu (Tch' or), of the Wu and over the Yue triumph in China because they govern the rites of alliance between cities and centuries front J. - C., which enables them to impose their domination on weakest.

    • the peripheral kingdoms of IQ, Jin and Chu affirm their autonomy and their independence compared to the religious capital of the Zhou. They develop original local cultures by the fusion of the Chinese with the populations aboriginals. The nobility of Jin is thus morning of barbarians in consequence of its exchanges of women with Di, population nonChinese of the Shanxi. The Chefferie S local barbarians, slowly comparable, appear to have played a great part in the formation of the country of Qin. The country of Chu seems foreign by its culture and its language with the Chinese of the large plain. Wu and Yue, in the plains of low Yangzi and on the coasts of the estuary of Zhejiang, develop in south-east an independent culture.
  • In Korea, immigration of people come from Mandchourie and China of North during the Bronze Age (-).

Central Asia

  • Time of Tagar (- 700/-300). Permanent establishments (some strengthened) of the Scythian in the steppes, populates warlike, rich and powerful. Armoured cavalry.
  • Proto-Turkish on the Altaï.

The close East

  • Reign of Achéménès, legendary king of the Persian .
    • the ten Persian tribes leave the area of the lake of Ourmia and are fixed in the area which will become the Perse (currently the Fars).

Western Europe

  • the Carthaginians settle with Malatya, Baria (Villaricos) in Spain and with the Balearic Islands (Mago).
  • the Etruscan cities are made up on the basis of the villages villanoviens. At the end of the century a league of the Etruscan cities (Dodécapole) is constituted in Étrurie.
  • Celtic Presence attested with the Netherlands (fall from a chief to OSI).
  • Production in Armorique of tens of thousands of rectangular axes to bronze casing with strong lead content, used like monetary standard and ingots until British Isles, Netherlands, Germany of North, the Alps, Switzerland, valley of the Rhone and Midi. A similar late production will remain during the first Age of Iron in the Aude and Herault (Launacien).

Eastern Europe

  • wind Settlement with Troy.
  • Tyranny with Corinth.
  • Argos dominates the Peloponnese.
  • Confederation béotienne.
  • Amphictyonie pylaio-delphic ()
  • Amphictyonie délienne of the Ionian islanders.
  • Corinthe founds Ambracie. Milet colonizes Sinope and Amisos in Asia Mineure.
  • Foundation of Trébizonde by the colonists of Sinope on the Black Sea.
  • With Athens, the study of the tombs and the funerary steles of the period 700 - 650 av. J. - C. seems to indicate the return to the capacity of the agathoi and thus suggests a division of the company in two groups, which could be the Eupatrides and the dependant peasants (Hectémores) mentioned by the texts.

Significant characters

  • Thalès de Milet

  • Zarathoustra
  • Guan Zhong, minister of IQ; the tradition allots to him the Guanzi , work dating in fact from the end from the Royaumes combatants.
  • Callinos elegist of Éphèse of the beginning of the century. Arion poet of Méthymne to Lesbos. Tyrtée of Aphidnae (Attic), poet and advised with Sparte (fine). Terpandre, poet and musician of Lesbos. Thaétas, musician of Gortyne invents the péan.

Economy and company

  • Fine of the commercial monopoly Eubéen. Egine becomes the point of result of a sales network between the East and Étrurie.

Art and culture

  • With the Close East, from, the Araméen is essential like the language of the international exchanges by taking the place occupied by the akkadien.

  • Discovered of a library of in Sultan Tépé, close to Harran, in Turkey, undoubtedly belonging to a priest. It is especially made up of literary texts (Epopee of Gilgamesh, Poème of the suffering Juste, myth of Nergal, god of death, a historical text and a humorous text).
  • Art orientalizing in Greece (high archaism) (- 700/-600) and in Etrurie.

  • With Eleutherne, in Western Crete, the excavation of a necropolis (1990 - 1992) with revealed the vestiges of bûchers attesting the existence of human sacrifices.
  • First large temples in rectangular plan in Héraion of Samos and the sanctuary of Artémis Orthia with Sparte. These temples, often built in margin of the habitat, derive from the civil architecture of the previous time (Lefkandi). One can conclude from it that the Greek temples appear at the time when the royalty disappears from certain areas.
  • Foundation of the sanctuary of Delphes, dedicated to Apollo.
  • hypothetical Voyage of Aristée de Proconnèse, admirer of Apollo, at the Scythians.
  • In Europe, the Celtic groups of the first age of iron are divided in two geographical surfaces: the Western zone, with the carriers of sword, the Eastern zone, with the carriers of axe. Ceramics has common forms, but decoration differs. In the West, abstract reasons inherited the Bronze Age, while a more narrative style develops in the East: the ballot boxes of Sopron (Hungary) or Fischbach (Bavaria), dated from, present diagrammatic silhouettes; dancers, musicians, tisserands, women with the raised and warlike arms. On the bronze crockery beaten of the cemetery of Kleinklein (is of Austria), the figuration (ravelled mystical characters and huntings) is associated with the geometrical tradition. One of the tombs comprises a human mask and hands cut out in bronze sheets, influences world illyrien near (funeral masks in gold sheet of Trebeniste, in Yugoslavia). Mythological characters (large ithyphallic goddesses, warriors, stags, wild boars) - are put in scene on the votive carriage of Stregweg (Styrie) deposited in an incineration.

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

  • Fine of in Greece: technological advances (navigation, armament, industry, etc). Development of the trirème.

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