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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Births: Thales of Greece - creator of "theory of everything" and universiality of water to life (625 BC)
• Deaths: Ashurbanipal of Assyria (627 or 626 BC)

Europe

• Greece: Coinage introduced by Greeks (625 BC)
  Athenian lawyer Draco introduces harsh laws and punishments plus first of Greece's written laws (see 590) (625 or 621 BC)

Middle East

• General: Chaldean general Nabopolassar (father of Nebuchadnezzar) takes Babylon and declares independence from Assyria (626 BC)
• Assyria: Death of Ashurbanipal (627 or 626 BC)
• Babylon: Babylon re-emerges as major power (625 BC)
• Chaldea: Foundation of Chaldea in the Iraq/Kuwait region to 539 AD (625 BC)