Politics & PowerThe 6th century BCE

Politics & Power in the 6th century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged politics and power — dynasties, constitutions, revolutions and changes of regime, narrowed to the 6th century BCE — 7 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 600 BCE to 508 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
7
Nations
6
Earliest
600 BCE
Latest
508 BCE
Asia
3
Europe
3
Africa
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 7th–6th centuries BCEEurope

    Italy

    Etruscan ascendancy in central Italy

    The Etruscans developed a sophisticated urban civilization in central Italy and, by tradition, supplied Rome with several of its kings before being gradually absorbed by the Roman state.

    Era: Italic Peoples and the Rise of Rome

    Sources: Ancient Italic people (Etruscans, Latins, Samnites) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. c. 593–590 BCEAfrica

    Sudan

    Capital moves to Meroe

    After Psamtik II of Egypt sacks Napata, the Kushite court shifts south to Meroe, beginning the Meroitic age of iron, script and pyramids.

    Era: Nubia, Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush

    Sources: Kingdom of Kush · Wikipedia, Sudan — The kingdom of Kush · Encyclopædia Britannica

  3. c. 547 BCEAsia

    Türkiye

    Fall of Lydia and Croesus

    The wealthy Lydian kingdom of western Anatolia, credited with pioneering coined money, fell to Cyrus the Great of Persia, bringing Anatolia under Persian rule.

    Era: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Anatolia

    Sources: Anatolia · Encyclopædia Britannica

  4. 539 BCEAsia

    Iran

    Conquest of Babylon and the Cyrus Cylinder

    Cyrus captures Babylon and issues the Cyrus Cylinder, a Babylonian cuneiform document recording his restoration of temples and return of deported peoples, often hailed as an early charter of tolerance.

    Era: Elam and the Achaemenid Empire

    Sources: The Cyrus Cylinder · The British Museum, Cyrus the Great · World History Encyclopedia

  5. 539 BCEAsia

    Palestine

    Persian rule under the Achaemenids

    Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and incorporated the region into the Persian Empire, permitting exiled communities to return.

    Era: Ancient Palestine: Canaan, the Philistines, and the Empires

    Sources: Palestine - region, history · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  6. 509 BCE (traditional)Europe

    Italy

    Founding of the Roman Republic

    Tradition holds that the Romans expelled their last king and established a republic governed by elected magistrates and the Senate, conventionally dated to 509 BCE.

    Era: Italic Peoples and the Rise of Rome

    Sources: Ancient Rome · World History Encyclopedia, Italy (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  7. c. 508/507 BCEEurope

    Greece

    Cleisthenes founds Athenian democracy

    The Athenian statesman Cleisthenes reorganized the citizens into ten tribes and established popular institutions of self-rule, the system later called democracy and regarded as the first in the world.

    Era: Archaic and Classical Greece

    Sources: Cleisthenes of Athens · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ancient Greek Democracy · HISTORY (A&E Television Networks), Reforms of Cleisthenes · EBSCO Research Starters