700 BC explained

The year 700 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 54 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 700 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events and trends

By place

Africa

• Construction of the Temple of Yeha in Ethiopia (approximate date.)^[1]

Europe

• Founding of Poseidonia by the Dorians^[2] as a colony of Sybaris.^[3]

Middle East

• Assyrian king Sennacherib launches another campaign into the Chaldean region, where the Babylonian rebel Merodach-Baladan II has been conspiring against him. Merodach-Baladan takes refuge in Elam, north of the Persian Gulf.^[4]
• Babylon's Assyrian-raised puppet king Bel-ibni is deposed after a 3-year reign and sent into exile.^[5] He is replaced by Sennacherib's son, Ashur-nadin-shumi.^{[6] [7]}

By topic

Agriculture

• China's minister of agriculture teaches the peasants crop rotation. He also teaches them to dig drainage ditches, rents them farm equipment, and stores grain surpluses to provide free food in time of famine (approximate date).
• Laws against animal slaughter are relaxed in India (approximate date.)

Environment

• Cities developing in the Near East build aqueducts to keep their residents supplied with water (approximate date).^[8]

Sport

• Atheradas of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 20th Olympic Games.^[9]

Births

• Mentuemhat, Egyptian government official.^[10]

Notes and References

1. Book: Manzo . Andrea . Stories of Globalisation: The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf from Late Prehistory to Early Modernity: Selected Papers of Red Sea Project VII . Zazzaro . Chiara . Falco . Diana Joyce De . 2018-11-26 . BRILL . 978-90-04-36232-1 . en.
2. Web site: Solinus . Gaius Julius . Gaius Julius Solinus . The Polyhistor . 2023-06-23 . topostext.org . English translation by Arwen Apps (from her PhD diss., Macquarie University, 2011).
3. Book: Bickerman, E. J. (Elias Joseph) . Chronology of the ancient world . 1968 . Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press . Internet Archive.
4. Book: Glassner . Jean-Jacques . Mesopotamian Chronicles . Foster . Benjamin Benjamin Read . 2005 . BRILL . 978-90-04-13084-5 . en.
5. Book: Grayson, Albert Kirk . Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles . 2000 . Eisenbrauns . 978-1-57506-049-1 . 77 .
6. Book: Leick, Gwendolyn . The Babylonians: An Introduction . 2003 . Psychology Press . 978-0-415-25314-7 . en.
7. Book: Mattingly, Harold . Outlines of Ancient History: From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of The Roman Empire In The West, Ad 476 . Cambridge University Press . 1914 . 8 .
8. Book: Beeson, Geoff . A Water Story: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future . 2020-02-03 . Csiro Publishing . 978-1-4863-1130-9 . en.
9. Web site: Eusebius: Chronicle (2) - translation . 2023-06-23 . www.attalus.org.
10. Book: Bierbrier, M. L. . Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt . 2022-11-30 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-5381-5750-3 . en.