Sardis

City · c. 700–546 BCE · in Europe

Capital of Lydia (700 BCE–546 BCE).

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• First Olympic Games (776 BCE): Traditional date of the first Olympic Games at Olympia, a festival for Zeus with athletic contests held every four years until the late 4th century CE.
• Rome (753 BCE): According to tradition Rome was founded by Romulus in 753 BCE; it grew from a settlement on the Palatine Hill into the capital of a Mediterranean empire.
• Iliad (c. 750 BCE): Epic poem attributed to Homer about the Trojan War, generally dated to the 8th century BCE; with the Odyssey, a foundational work of Western literature.
• Athenian democracy (508 BCE): The reforms of Cleisthenes in 508/507 BCE created a system in which male citizens voted directly on laws, the earliest well-documented democracy.
• Socrates (c. 470 BCE – 399 BCE): Athenian philosopher who examined ethics through questioning dialogue; he was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock in 399 BCE.
• Romulus and Remus (c. 771 BCE – 717 BCE): In Roman legend, twin sons of the god Mars, left by the Tiber and suckled by a she-wolf. Romulus founded Rome on the Palatine Hill, traditionally on 21 April 753 BCE, after killing his brother in a quarrel over its walls.
• Library of Ashurbanipal (c. 668 BCE): A royal collection of over 30,000 clay tablets and fragments gathered by Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, including the Epic of Gilgamesh; it is a key source for Mesopotamian literature.
• First coins in Lydia (c. 620 BCE): Lydia in western Anatolia issued some of the earliest known coins, made of electrum; later King Croesus introduced coins of pure gold and silver.

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