500s BC (decade)

Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BC.
Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red

Significant people

Deaths

How the world looked

References

  1. Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicle .
  2. an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population
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