The world: 6th century BC

600–501 BC

Events in this period 2

1. 539 BC · Middle East · War

   Fall of Babylon

   The fall of Babylon occurred in 539 BCE, when the Achaemenid Empire conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The success of the Persian campaign, led by Cyrus the Great, brought an end to the reign of the last native dynasty of Mesopotamia and gave the Persians control over the rest of the Fertile Crescent.

2. 587 BC · Middle East · War

   Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)

   Jerusalem was besieged from 589–587 BC, marking the final phase of Judah's revolts against Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar II, king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Judah's capital city for approximately 30 months. The city ultimately fell in the summer of 587 BC, after which the Babylonians systematically destroyed Jerusalem and razed Solomon's Temple. The kingdom was dissolved, and a large segment of the population was exiled to Babylonia.

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Around the same time

• The Buddhac. 500 BC
• Confuciusc. 500 BC
• Battle of Thermopylae480 BC
• Peloponnesian War431 BC – 404 BC
• Maurya Empire322 BC
• Fall of Nineveh612 BC
• Battle of Marathon490 BC
• Battle of Gaugamela331 BC
• Battle of the Hydaspes326 BC
• Nazca linesc. 500 BC

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