Young Brunette Girl Reveals With A White Scarf In Ruins Of An Ancient Castle

612 BC: Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
600 BC: Sixteen Maha Janapadas ("Great Realms" or "Great Kingdoms") emerge. A number of these Maha Janapadas are semi-democratic republics.
c. 600 BC: Pandyan kingdom in South India
599 BC: Mahavira, founder of Jainism is born as a prince at Kundalavana, who ruled Magadha Empire.