7th Century BC - Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

• The Chinese invent printing.
• First metal coins used by the Lydians of western Anatolia. Until c. 525 BC, coins bore an image on one side only.
• Greeks adopt coins and alphabetic writing from Asia Minor.
• Iron allegedly discovered in China.
• 7th century BC – 4th century BC – Etruscan cemetery of La Banditaccia, Cerveteri is made.