- 709–700 BC
Events and trends
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706 BC —Sparta n immigrants found Taras ("Tarentum", the modernTaranto )colony insouthern Italy .
*706 BC —Sargon II dies.
*705 BC —Sennacherib succeeds his fatherSargon II as king ofAssyria .
*704 BC —Sennacherib moves thecapital ofAssyria toNineveh .
*701 BC — KingHezekiah of Judah, backed by Egypt, revolts against kingSennacherib ofAssyria .Sennacherib sacks manyIsraeli cities, but fails in his attempt to takeJerusalem .
*700 BC — TheScythians start settling inCimmerian areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.
*700 BC — End of theVillanovan culture innorthern Italy and rise of theEtruscan civilization .
*700 BC — TheUpanishad s, a sacred text ofHinduism , are written around this time.
*c. 700 BC — Geometric period of vases ends inAncient Greece .Orientalizing period of vases starts. It starts inCorinth .
*c. 700 BC —Hesiod writes "Theogony ".
*c.700 BC –509 BC — Etruscan supremacy period inItaly .ignificant people
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701 BC — Death ofDuke Zhuang of Zheng , China
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