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Encyclopedic overview
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 500 BC. Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red
Events and trends
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “500s BC” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.