The Bosporan Kingdom thrives in modern-day Russia and Ukraine
The Bosporan Kingdom was an ancient Greco-Scythian state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
Europe
Humans of ancient Greece invent the crane
The archaeological record shows that no later than c. 515 B.C.E. distinctive cuttings for both lifting tongs and lewis irons begin to appear on stone blocks of Greek temples.
The Greeks build the world's first underground aqueduct, the Tunnel of Eupalinos, on the island of Samos
The tunnel is the second known tunnel in history which was excavated from both ends and the first with a geometry-based approach in doing so.
Thales of Miletus becomes first human to predict a solar eclipse
If the account is true, it has been suggested that Thales would have had to calculate the timing of any eclipse by recognizing patterns in the periodicities of eclipses. It has been postulated that Thales may have used the Saros cycle in his determination
Lydia’s King Alyattes mints the first official currency
The coins were made from electrum, a mixture of silver and gold that occurs naturally, and stamped with pictures that acted as denominations.
The Agora thrives as public commons space in ancient Athens
From the 6th and until the 1st century B.C.E. the Agora as the heart of the government and the judiciary, as a public place of debate, as a place of worship, and as marketplace.
The first Olympic games begin in Greece
They continued for nearly 12 centuries, until Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 C.E. that all such “pagan cults” be banned.
City-states rise to power in ancient Greece
The city-states emerged from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization in Greece and by the 8th century B.C.E. a significant process of urbanisation had begun.
The Sami People emerge in modern-day Norway
About 1000 B.C.E., speakers of Uralic language arrived in the north and assimilated with the indigenous population, becoming the Sami people.
Urnfield culture begins to thrive in central Europe
The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 B.C.E. – 750 B.C.E.) was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields.