Book of Songs (Shijing) compiled
~600 BCE · Work
Earliest existing collection of Chinese poetry; Confucian classic.
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Around 600 BCE
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- Athenian democracy founded (508 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)