690s BC

This article concerns the period 699 BC – 690 BC.

Events and trends

699 BC—Hallashu-Inshushinak (Khallushu) succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the Elamite Empire.^[1]^[2]
699 BC—Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah as king of Judah. The first king who did not have an experience with the Kingdom of Israel, Manasseh ruled with his mother, Hephzibah, as regent.^[3]
699 BC—Sennacherib carries out his fifth military campaign in Babylonia, a series of raids against the villages around the foot of Mount Judi, located to the northeast of Nineveh.^[4]^[5]
698 BC—Death of Chuzi I, ruler of the state of Qin
698 BC—Death of Duke Xi of Qi, ruler of the state of Qi
697 BC—Birth of Duke Wen of Jin in China.
697 BC—Death of King Huan of Zhou in China.
697 BC—Hezekiah succeeded by Manasseh as king of Judah.
696 BC—King Zhuang of Zhou begins his reign in China.
696 BC—The Cimmerians ravage Phrygia, possible migration of the Armenians.
696 BC—Pantacles of Athens wins the stadion race at the 21st Olympic Games.^[6]
692 BC—Karib'il Watar of Saba' is recorded as having given "gifts" (tribute) to King Sennacherib of Assyria.
692 BC—Pantacles wins the stadion race for a second time and the diaulos at the 22nd Olympic Games.^[6]
691 BC—King Sennacherib of Assyria defeats king Humban-nimena of Elam in the Battle of Halule.
690 BC—Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt (approximate date)
c. 690 BC—Death of Manava, author of the Indian geometric text of Sulba Sutras.
690s BC—W'rn Hywt of D'mt in Ethiopia appears in the inscriptional record and mentions the king of Saba', Karib'il Watar.
Greek colonization of the Mediterranean in the next two centuries will be motivated primarily by a need to find new food sources as Greece's population expands. The barren and rocky soil of the Greek Peninsula is inadequate to meet the people's alimentary needs (approximate date).

Significant People

References

^ Cavendish, Marshall (September 2006). World and Its Peoples. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2.
^ Carter, Elizabeth (1984). Elam : surveys of political history and archaeology. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-09950-0.
^ "CANADIAN HISTORY A DISTINCT VIEWPOINT: EUROPEAN & ASIAN HISTORY 700 - 481 BC". metis-history.info. Archived from the original on 2015-06-29.
^ Luckenbill, Daniel David (2005-09-16). The Annals of Sennacherib. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59752-372-1.
^ Levine, Louis D. (1982). "Sennacherib's Southern Front: 704-689 B.C." Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 34 (1–2): 28–58. doi:10.2307/1359991. ISSN 0022-0256. JSTOR 1359991. S2CID 163170919.
^ ^a ^b Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicle [1].

[1] Cavendish, Marshall (September 2006). World and Its Peoples. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2.

[2] Carter, Elizabeth (1984). Elam : surveys of political history and archaeology. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-09950-0.

[3] "CANADIAN HISTORY A DISTINCT VIEWPOINT: EUROPEAN & ASIAN HISTORY 700 - 481 BC". metis-history.info. Archived from the original on 2015-06-29.

[4] Luckenbill, Daniel David (2005-09-16). The Annals of Sennacherib. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59752-372-1.

[5] Levine, Louis D. (1982). "Sennacherib's Southern Front: 704-689 B.C." Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 34 (1–2): 28–58. doi:10.2307/1359991. ISSN 0022-0256. JSTOR 1359991. S2CID 163170919.

[attalus.org-6] Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicle [1].

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