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Landmark Europe archaeological

Biskupin

750 BCE – 400 BCE · 350 years

Remarkably preserved Iron Age fortified settlement built on a lake island in Poland, sometimes called the 'Polish Pompeii'

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Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

550 BCE – 262 CE

Polity · Europe

Cimerians

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Greco-Persian Wars

499 BCE – 449 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

435 BCE – 426 CE

Polity · Europe

Roman Republic

508 BCE – 26 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Sargonid Assyrian Conquests

745 BCE – 631 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Nineveh

6000 BCE – 612 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 750 BCE and 400 BCE.

745 BCE Sargonid Assyrian Conquests 743 BCE Messenian Wars 720 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 710 BCE Lelantine War 626 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire

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Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Meroe Polity · Middle East 500 BCE – 400 CE Mesopotamian Trade Network Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 500 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great Conflict · Middle East 559 BCE – 530 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon Landmark · Middle East 600 BCE – 320 BCE
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