Editing 500 BC

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[[File:East-Hem 500bc.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BCE.]]

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The year '''500 BCE''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. In the [[Roman Republic]] it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Camerinus and Longus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 254 '' [[Ab urbe condita]]''''').  when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==

=== By place ===

==== Europe ====
* [[Vulca]] makes [[Apollo of Veii]], from [[Portonaccio]] Temple, now kept at [[National Etruscan Museum|Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia]], [[Rome]].
* The [[Nordic Bronze Age]] civilization ends and the [[Pre-Roman Iron Age]] begins in Scandinavia, according to the [[Oscar Montelius]] periodization system (approximate date).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/civilisationswe00montgoog#page/n66/mode/2up|title=The Civilisation of Sweden in Heathen Times}}</ref>
* [[Refugee]]s from [[Teos]] resettle [[Abdera, Thrace|Abdera]].

==== Middle East ====
* [[Darius I]] of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]] proclaims that [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] will be the [[official language]] of the western half of his empire.

==== Africa ====
* [[Bantu languages|Bantu]]-speaking people migrate into south-west [[Uganda]] from [[Central Africa]]. (approximate date)
* The [[Hutu]] tribe emerges around this time, in [[Central Africa|Middle]] and [[Southern Africa]]. (approximate date)
* [[Hanno the Navigator]]'s naval exploration of the [[West Africa|western coast of Africa]] could have reached as far south as [[Gabon]].

==== Asia ====
* The first [[republic]] in [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]], Bihar, [[Ancient India|India]], is founded.
* States in existence include the Kingdom of [[Pratipalapura]] (centred on modern Bhattiprolu, in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh).
* According to the records of Shankara Mutts, a proponent of the [[Advaita]] Vedanta Sri [[Adi Shankaracharya]] was born in this century
* [[Early Pandyan Kingdom]] was ruled by the Pandyas during the second [[Sangam period]].
* [[Yayoi period]] starts in [[Ancient Japan]] (approximate date).

==== Mesoamerica ====
* The oldest known [[Zapotec writing]] appears (approximate date).
* The [[Olmec]] established [[Monte Albán]], the sacred city, and continued building pyramids. Founded toward the end of the [[Formative Period|Middle Formative period]] at around 500 BCE, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BCE–CE 200) Monte Albán soon became the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacts with other [[Mesoamerica]]n regional states, such as [[Teotihuacan]] to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983).

=== By topic ===

==== Demographics ====
* The [[world population]] reaches 100,000,000<ref>an average of figures from different sources as listed at the US Census Bureau's [https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_history.php Historical Estimates of World Population]</ref>—85,000,000 in the [[Eastern Hemisphere]] and 15,000,000 in the [[Western Hemisphere]], primarily [[Mesoamerica]] and northern [[South America]] ([[Mexico]], [[Central America]], [[Colombia]], [[Peru]], [[Venezuela]]).

==== Arts and culture ====
* The ''[[Capitoline Wolf|She-wolf]]'', with late [[15th century]] or early [[16th century]] additions (twins), is made. It is now kept at the [[Museo Capitolino]] in [[Rome]] (approximate date).

====Inventions, discoveries, introductions====
* [[Mesoamerican calendars]] are developed by the [[Olmecs|Olmec]] civilisation

== Births ==
* [[Anaxagoras]], Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (approximate date) (d. [[428 BCE]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Suzuki |first1=Jeff |title=Mathematics in Historical Context |date=2009 |publisher=MAA |isbn=9780883855706 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lew5IC5piCwC&pg=PA24|language=en}}</ref>

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