7th century BC

(8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC - other centuries)

(700s BC - 690s BC - 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC - 620s BC - 610s BC - 600s BC - other decades)

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)

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Events:

• Scythians arrived in Asia
• Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
• Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC)
• Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
• Japanese capital founded
• Zoroastrianism founded

Significant persons:

• Thales of Miletus (c.625 BC - c.546 BC)
• Sappho of Lesbos
• Zarathushtra

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• First coins used by Lydians
• Iron allegedly discovered in China