700s BC

Events and trends

706 BC — Spartan immigrants found Taras (Tarentum, the modern Taranto) colony in southern Italy.
706 BC — Sargon II dies.
705 BC — Sennacherib succeeds his father Sargon II as king of Assyria.
704 BC — Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyria to Nineveh.
701 BC — King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Egypt, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria. Sennacherib sacks many Israeli cities, but fails in his attempt to take Jerusalem.
700 BC — The Scythians start settling in Cimmerian areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.
700 BC — End of the Villanovan culture in northern Italy and rise of the Etruscan civilization.
700 BC — The Upanishads, a sacred text of Hinduism, are written around this time.
c. 700 BC — Geometric period of vases ends in Ancient Greece. Orientalizing period of vases starts. It starts in Corinth.
c. 700 BC — Hesiod writes "Theogony".
c. 700 BC–509 BC — Etruscan supremacy period in Italy.

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