Virginia Woolf

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Events

Significant characters

  • Birth of the lyric poet Stésichore. Life and work of wise the crétois semi-legendary Epiménide.

Art & cultures

  • Situle (decorated bronze widened sheet bucket) of the Benevenuti Villa to Este, in Tuscany, oldest known, with the orientalizing figurative decorations. The historiées the bronze situles and plates spread Adriatic areas and Slovenia towards the east of the Alps, in the Celtic world.

  • Art dedalic in Crete (- 650/-600): temple of Prinias, “bronze xoana” of Dréros, Diopoinos and Scyllis, sculptors pupils of Maze.

  • Hécatompédon, ionic temple of Samos.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • First use of the currency in Lydie (Anatolia Western).

  • Introduction of the technology of iron in China.
    • the share plow of iron drawn by an ox and the improvement from the techniques from irrigation allow better agricultural outputs and the population growth. The production of additional richnesses gives rise to a new class of traders and tradesmen.

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