Sadyates is king of Lydia.
Ancus Marcius is the king of Rome. He founded the port of Ostia, established salt-works and built a prison which was founded in 625 B.C. and was used to hold people until they decided what to do with them. Before this time, a popular punishment was to exile people.
It was not until the Roman period (about 625BC) that goose meat was mentioned as a distinct food and an efficient system was recorded for keeping geese.
Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, an early Persian prophet who founded the first world religion, Zoroastrianism, is a baby.
The Judeo-Christian book, Deuteronomy, is composed about this time and written down about 530 BCE.
About this time Nabopolassar, a Chaldean, asserts independence from Assyria and establishes a new dynasty in Babylon. Nabopolassar attacks Assyria, allying himself with the Medes - eastern neighbors of Assyria, and technically one of their vassal states.
Cyaxares, (625–585 BCE) became a ruler over the Median Empire.
- Asgarov, 1984