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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Greeks are intrigued by the iron-attracting property of a mineral which they find in the district of Magnesia | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The secret of lacquer, the sap of a tree which can be hardened by moisture, is discovered in China | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The great network of roads built by Darius I has at its centre the 2000-mile royal road from Susa to Sardis | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Isthmian games at Corinth are by now a regular event, as are the Pythian games and the Nemean games | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Chinese I Jing, or 'Classic of Changes', is compiled as a book of divination | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Greeks observe the strange effect of electricity, seen when amber (known to them as electron) is rubbed | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | Darius I adopts Zoroastrianism as the religion of the Persian empire | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Magi, possibly converting from an earlier Iranian religion, become the priests of Zoroastrianism | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The new and more sophisticated fashion in Greek vases is the red-figure style | |
|  | Greek vase, red-figure style
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Lapps, hunters of reindeer, have Scandinavia to themselves before the arrival of Germanic tribes | |
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