... 630s B.C. This fact suggests that the ' Scythian domination ' belongs to this period . If the chronological information in the classical sources is unreli- able and such information is lacking in the cuneiform sources , only biblical ...
... 630s B.C. , when Solon was a young man , an Olympic champion named Kylon had tried to seize the Acropolis and had been assassinated by members of a Eupatrid clan . Athens ' republican institutions , in the hands of the " well - fathered ...
... 630s B.C. , the group is mentioned in cuneiform texts . Many Near Eastern states , including Assyria , suffered Cimmerian raids : in the 670s B.C. , the Cimmerians destroyed Phrygia , then attacked the kingdom of Lydia to the west ...
... 630s BC , it was ruled for the first two centuries by kings who , confusingly , alternated between the names Battus and Arcesilaus . Conquered by Alexander the Great in 331 BC , Cyrene fell , save for a few decades of independence , to ...
... 630s bc down through to the death of Ashurbanipal in 627 bc. Very little is known about the monarch's final years in power, but it would seem the Assyrian Empire began a period of contraction in the face of a concatenation of factors ...
... 630s B.C. , a certain Cylon , a victor in the Olympic Games and intoxicated by his victory , attempted , with the aid of his father - in - law , the tyrant of Megara , to seize power in Athens . The attack failed lamentably : besieged ...
... 630s B.C. by settlers from the Aegean island of Thera ( north of Crete ) . Driven by famine on Thera , the colonists sailed to the area now occupied by Libya , but in ancient times called Cyrenaica . They built Cyrene on a well ...
... 630s BC , the ancestors of the Parthians forced the Medes into tribute , until a Median king murdered the drunken Parthian chiefs at a banquet . The Parthians then raided their way to Egypt and back and , in an alliance with the ...
... 630s BC (the reign of Assurbanipal) have long braided hair and full beards. Their tunics are long and they fire short, recurved bows, drawn back to the ear like Medieval longbows. Behind each warrior rode a 'back-up', carrying quivers ...
... 630s BC and then spreading further afield, which show that there may have been some sort of mocking, musical dance drama in the century or two before the dramatic festivals at Athens come into sharper historical focus. The earliest ...