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General

Population: Perhaps 100 million*

• Entertainment: Sappho writes (594 BC)
• Deaths: Draco - smothers under cloaks (590 BC)

Africa

• East: Nubian capital established at Meroe (590 BC)

Asia

• General: Nephi and brothers reach Bountiful and build ship (592 BC)
  Nephi and brothers set sail (591 BC)

Europe

• Greece: Solon becomes sole Archon of Athens and introduces reforms (594 BC)
  Athenians halt agricultural exports and plant more olive trees - causing erosion of hillsides (594 BC)
  Athenian lawgiver Draco creates harsh but popular laws - well-wishers shower him with cloaks and he smothers (590 BC)
  Chief magistrate Solon establishes laws barring enslavement of debtors (590 BC)

Middle East

• General: North Mesopotamia taken by Persians to 331 BC (595 BC)
• Judaea: Deportation of Jews to Babylon begins as Babylonian king captures Jerusalem (see also 589 BC) (597 BC)