700s BC

Events and trends

 * — n immigrants found (, the modern )  in.
 * 706 BC — dies.
 * — succeeds his father  as king of.
 * — moves the  of  to.
 * — King of, backed by , revolts against king  of .  sacks many  cities, but fails in his attempt to take.
 * — The start settling in  areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.
 * 700 BC — End of the in  and rise of the.
 * 700 BC — The s, a sacred text of, are written around this time.
 * c. 700 BC — Geometric period of vases ends in . period of vases starts. It starts in.
 * c. 700 BC — writes "".
 * c. 700 BC - People from the southwest burn.
 * c. – — supremacy period in.

Significant people

 * — Death of, China