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| 710 BC |
| | | The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria | |
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| c. 704 BC |
| | | Wrestling is included in the Olympic games, followed by a terrifying form of all-in wrestling from 652 BC | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Egyptian scribes develop an abbreviated version of hieroglyphs for everyday use, in the script known as demotic ('for the people') | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Judah and Benjamin, together forming the kingdom of Judah, are the only two surviving tribes of Israel | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Sennacherib moves the Assyrian capital to a new site at Nineveh | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | The island of Sicily is colonized from the eastern Mediterranean by both Phoenicians and Greeks | |
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| 689 BC |
| | | The Assyrian king, Sennacherib, destroys with great brutality the city of Babylon | |
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| 688 BC |
| | | Boxing is included in the Olympic games, with each bout going on until one fighter gives up | |
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| c. 667 BC |
| | | Byzantium (the future Constantinople) is founded as a colony of Megara, a Greek city-state | |
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