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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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| 663 BC |
| | | The Egyptian city of Memphis falls to an Assyrian army, soon to be followed by Thebes | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The Greek city states make a habit of consulting the oracle at Delphi, hoping mainly for reassurance | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | Ashurbanipal commissions a great library of cuneiform clay tablets at Nineveh | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The capitals of Greek pillars are by now in the two basic patterns of Doric and Ionic | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The earliest known coins are minted in Ephesus, bean-shaped and struck on one side with a distinguishing mark | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Messenia revolt against Spartan rule and are reduced, in retaliation, to the status of serfs or helots | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh is known in its complete form from texts in the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh | |
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| c. 645 BC |
| | | Ashurbanipal commissions a magnificent relief of a lion hunt for his new palace at Nineveh | |
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| c. 630 BC |
| | | The Areopagus, named from the hill on Athens where it meets, is the council through which the nobles keep power in their own hands | |
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