* Scythians/Sarmatians appear in the northern steppes--the first two tribes
to learn to ride horses and wear trousers.
* Spread of mounted nomadism by Cimmerians--the first-known mounted nomads
* Chinese make woodcuts demonstrating a proof of "Pythagoras' Theorem"
[Hogben, Mathematics for the Million.]
* Indian Puranic texts accurately quote the speed of light (itself a
stream of particles from 1 of 4 bosons needed to form all matter)
[Kak, Birth and Development of Indian Astronomy.]
* Dido, with Phoenicians & Israelites in tow, founds Carthage (~814)
[Timaeus of Tauromenium]
800 B.C.E.
* Collapse of Western Zhou empire
* Rome founded by Romulus: 1 AUC (21 Aprilis 753)
* With his accession to Babylonia's throne, Era of Nabonassar begins--as
later defined by Claudius Ptolemaeus at Canopus for use in conjunction
with Egypt's civil calendar, thereby being so fool-proof that it is used
until the Renaissance by astronomers and even by Copernicus (747)
* Shalmaneser V besieges Samaria when Hoshea of the House of Israel rebels
against Assyria; after the rebellion is put down, Sargon II deports to
Persian frontier thousands of Samaritans, who adopt Aramaic customs along
with the language that they will carry beyond the frontier later on, and
so forget about their ethnicity & being El's chosen priesthood (722-0)
[Septuagint. Hosea 4.6; Thiele: 12-year error so Israel ends 709]
* Cimmerians defeat kingdom of Urartu on Assyrian frontier (707)
* Celestial North makes closest approach to Kochab, beta Ursae Minoris
700 B.C.E.
* Assyria invades Judah repeatedly, deports Judaeans to Kir, Babylon &
Persian frontier
[II Chron 28.5; Rawlinson; Taylor Prism]
* Punctuation symbol used in Kish for zero
* Zoroaster (rockstar) to die in Persia 258 years before death of Alexander,
thereby being born 77 years earlier, circa 658;
[Sasanian folklore; E.W. West]
will teach that: one will go to purgatory after death if one's wrongs are
outweighed by one's good thoughts, words & deeds in this life, or if they
compensate for each other; to hell if vice versa; all will be resurrected
to face judgment after virgin birth of the 3rd Benefactor as Zoroaster's
heir who defeats the Evil One at the end of a Millennium when he will be
cast into everlasting darkness & torment, the bad annihilated, the ugly &
the good resurrected having had their sins burned away; there will be a
new earth that is purified for the resurrected to inhabit forever with
the Good One, and Finite Time will merge with Infinite Time. He is the
first to proclaim: the concept of ensoulment that occurs 3 months into
gestation of a fetus; the principle of separation of Church & State -
"(earthly) punishment for the criminal must be established by law" i.e,
not by a priest-king/caste; the doctrine of individual judgment followed
by a Final Judgment when the wicked will suffer a Second Death and the
rest have everlasting life for a soul reunited with a resurrected body
* King Josiah outlaws blood sacrifice in Judah except in the Temple, and
reforms politics as well as religion after the Akkadian original of the
Book of Deuteronomy is found, that had been "lost in translation" (622)
* Pharao Necho II orders the digging of a canal between the Nile & Red Sea;
kills Josiah in battle at Armageddon (609)
* Lao-tzu ("old boy") born in China; founds Taoism as a way of living in
the world in harmony with the Tao (the Logos--that permeates the cosmos,
and seeks to keep an optimal balance of yin-yang forces to maintain
tranquility in it; one must be attuned to the Tao at all times to live
rightly and obtain enlightenment); intends Taoism to curtail the myriad
conflicts disrupting Chinese society of his time (~604)
* The start of a Phoenician circumnavigation of Africa as commissioned by
Necho II, lasting three years after sacrificing a youth & then embarking
from the Red Sea's port of Ezion-geber in the 19th year of King Hiram by
Sidonian Canaanites of the City of the Mercantile King--except for 12
men & 3 women who get separated by the hand of Baal two years into the
voyage such that they land at a "New Shore" (near Paraiba, Brazil)
[Cyrus Gordon, Brandeis University]
600 B.C.E.
