c. 800 BCE
Communication
Greece
Greek alphabet with vowels
Phoenician consonants adapted with explicit vowel signs.
Why it mattered
A fully phonetic script that could record any utterance, including poetry.
Antiquity
800 BCE
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c. 1,000 BCESociety
Coinage precursors and standard weights
Near East
c. 1,000 BCETechnology
Iron working at Nok and the Great Lakes
West Africa
c. 900 BCESociety
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Andes
c. 700 BCETechnology
Aqueducts and qanats
Persia
c. 700 BCEWarfare
Assyrian siege engineering
Mesopotamia
600 BCESociety
Minted coinage
Lydia