Founding of Monte Albán
The Zapotecs build a mountaintop capital that lasts 1,000 years
The Zapotecs founded a city on a levelled mountaintop above the Valley of Oaxaca. Monte Albán remained their capital for over a thousand years and holds some of the earliest hieroglyphic and calendrical inscriptions in Mesoamerica.
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Europe
- c. 509 BC Founding of the Roman Republic — 9 years earlier
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — 8 years earlier
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon — 10 years later
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae — 20 years later
Asia
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — 17 years later
- 479 BC Death of Confucius — 21 years later
Alive at the time
- Pythagoras (aged 70)
- Gautama Buddha (aged 63)
- Confucius (aged 51)
- Darius the Great (aged 50)
- Sun Tzu (aged 44)
- Leonidas I (aged 40)
- Xerxes I (aged 18)
- Heraclitus (aged 35)
- Themistocles (aged 24)