| | 7th century BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Collapse of (An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq) Nineveh, end of (An ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq) Assyria (612 BC) |
 | | (A presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC)) Thales of (Click link for more info and facts about Miletus) Miletus, Greek mathematician. |
 | | (The Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC)) Sappho of (An island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry) Lesbos, (The Greek language prior to the Roman Empire) Ancient Greek poet. |
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