500s BC (decade)
Decade
Millennium
1st millennium
BC
Centuries
7th century
BC
6th century
BC
5th century
BC
Decades
520s
BC
510s
BC
500s
BC
490s
BC
480s
BC
Years
509
BC
508
BC
507
BC
506
BC
505
BC
504
BC
503
BC
502
BC
501
BC
500
BC
Categories
Births
Deaths
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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