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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- decade
- Part of
- 6th century BC
- Has part
- 502 BC
- Followed by
- 490s BC
- Follows
- 510s BC
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- Commons category
- 500s BC
- point in time
- 0500-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:500s BC
- category for births in this time period
- Category:500s BC births
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Encyclopedic overview
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
Events and trends
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “500s BC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.