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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Parthia
		It was not until the 2nd century BCE that the Parthians were able to profit from the continuing erosion of the Seleucid Empire, gradually capturing all its territories east of Syria.
		By 129 BCE the Parthians were in control of all the lands right to the Tigris, and established their winter encampment on its banks at Ctesiphon, downstream from modern Baghdad.
		In 53 BCE, the Roman general Crassus invaded Parthia, but was defeated at the Battle of Carrhae by a Parthian commander called Surena in the Greek and Latin sources, most likely a member of the Suren-Pahlav Clan.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Parthia (3138 words)

	A TIMELINE OF MATTER
		Metallurgy : from previous to 6000 BCE copper is smelted from malachite which is found in surface deposits and later mined; copper is molded into many types of household items, cooking vessels and utensils, and tools, but is too soft to hold an edge, and therefore of limited use in the production of weapons.
		Around 3500 BCE however, a method of strengthening copper is finally discovered: by mixing the molten metal with around 15% molten tin, the alloy called bronze is produced.
		century BCE, and a 160 year old observation of the autumnal equinox, he also discovered the principle of the Precession of the Equinoxes, that is, the conical motion of the earth’s axis around the pole of the ecliptic plane every 26,000 years, shifting the position of pole stars in a projected circular motion.
	azothgallery.com /matter.html (1330 words)

	CAIUS SEMPRONIUS GRACCHUS ::: GENS SEMPRONIA
		Caius Sempronius Gracchus (153—121 B.C.E), younger brother of Tiberius, was a man of greater abilities, bolder and more passionate, although possessed of considerable powers of self-control, and a vigorous and impressive orator.
		In the year 131 BCE he supported the bill of C. Papirius Carbo, which made it legal for a tribune to offer himself as candidate for the office in two consecutive years.
		After serving as quaestor in Sardinia in 126 BCE, he returned to Rome and was elected tribune in 123 BCE.
	www.villaivlilla.com /GensSempronia/cai-gracchus.htm (317 words)

	Zhang Qian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The report of Zhang Qian's travels is quoted extensively in the 1st century BCE Chinese historic chronicles "Records of the Great Historian" (Shiji) by Sima Qian.
		Many objects were soon exchanged, and travelled as far as Guangzhou in the East, as suggested by the discovery of a Persian box and various artifacts from Central Asia in the 122 BCE tomb of the Chinese King Wen of Nanyue.
		Murals in Mogao Caves in Dunhuang describe the Emperor Han Wudi (156-87 BCE) worshipping Buddhist statues, explaining them as "golden men brought in 120 BCE by a great Han general in his campaigns against the nomads", although there is no other mention of Han Wudi worshipping the Buddha in Chinese historical literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang_Qian (2160 words)

	Silk Road - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A very famous expedition was conducted by Nehsi for Queen Hatshepsut in the 15th century BCE to obtain myrrh; a report of that voyage survives on a relief in Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
		By around 1600 BCE the southwest of Britain was experiencing a trade boom, as mined British tin was being exported across Europe (see Prehistoric Britain).
		Soon after the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE, regular communications and trade between India, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, China, the Middle East, Africa and Europe blossomed on an unprecedented scale.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Silk_Road (4836 words)

	Chapter Four
		By 173 BCE, mimes are the mainstay of the festival Floria.
		Accius, Lucius* 170-c.84 BCE Writer of tragedies and reputed to be one of the foremost playwrights.
		In 13 BCE the theatre of Balbus* and in 11 BCE the theatre of Marcellus* are built.
	hometown.aol.com /clasz/chap4.html (14345 words)

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		The BCE will be corrected by the student in class and will be submitted for credit at the end of the class period on the day the assignment is due.
		Please note that the number of the each BCE corresponds to the number of the grammar section in which the grammar point involved is explained.
		Tarea para el 7: Complete L.6 BCE sections 1 and 2 (132-133) and be prepared to correct them in class.
	www.cameron.edu /~teresal/SPAN3113/F04_SPAN3113_ORD.html (1034 words)

	126 BCE
		126 BCE is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The name Ta-Hsia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BCE to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria.
		The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE.
	www.experiencefestival.com /126_bce (1145 words)

	Weights, Measures, and Coins: From the Bible Through the Talmudic Period
		The bulk of the coins of John Hyrcanus II (67, 63–40 BCE) were in the same shape as those of John Hyrcanus I. There were, however, varieties which were peculiar to his issues.
		The coins of Herod the Great (37–4 BCE), all of bronze as those of his successors, can be divided into two groups: those which are dated and those which are not.
		As Herod no doubt reckoned his reign from his appointment as king of Judea by the Romans in 40 BCE and not from his actual accession three years later, the "year three" is equal to 37 BCE.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/weightsandmeasures.html (4012 words)

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		According to Indian texts written during the sixth century BCE, the god-man Krishna is born at Mathura, in Uttar Pradesh.
		This belief that God was on the side of the bigger battalions was codified during the sixth century BCE, and made a fundamental part of the Six Secret Teachings of the T'ai Kung general.
		The latter use is certain, by the way, as the Athenians used Scythian policemen from 530-350 BCE and their bows were of this type.
	ejmas.netfirms.com /kronos/NewHist000-478.htm (20101 words)

	From Hyrcanus to Salome Alexandra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After his death in 76 BCE, in accordance with his will, his widow (Salome) Alexandra assumed political power, and her son Hyrcanus II became the High Priest.
		The two ends of the main strap were threaded through a single hole near the toe and fixed to the bottom of the sole.
		Antiochus VIII Gryphus rules the Seleucid kingdom until 113 BCE, when he is deposed by Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and step-brother and cousin of Antiochus VIII Gryphus, who rules for two years.
	www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/NTIntro/InTest/Hist4.htm (3822 words)

	2nd Century B.C.E.
		The 3rd century B.C.E., was a period in which Rome consolidated its control of the Italian peninsula, was tested as a geopolitical power in its contests with Carthage, and aquired its first overseas provinces.
		Roman warfare in Spain lasted until 133 BCE.] Cato was particularly alarmed by the Punic capacity to recover from the extraordinary defeats and war reparations Rome had imposed on her.
		In 146, Roman troops, under the command of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus [the natural son of Aemilius Paullus and grandson by adoption of Scipio Africanus], sacked Carthage.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/2nd.cen.htm (1167 words)

	Unified Capitalizt States - NSwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This led to a series of revolutions from 57–54 BCE, in which the Korean populations formed the states of Sokojito and Sokojiwa, the German population formed the state of Lontorica, and the primary American population centers became the capitals of Commerce Heights, Bedistan, and Bætica.
		When Sonoma Island was discovered to the east, in September of that year, the government determined it to be more suitable for colonization, and struck a deal with Sokojito, having them turn over their colonies on that island in exchange for control of the area surrounding St Peters.
		In December of 43 BCE, due to internal pressures, the Jativan government was forced to relocate to the East Pacific, leaving the Jativan Islands in chaos.
	ns.goobergunch.net /wiki/index.php/Commerce_Heights (3053 words)

	ARH 382 - ID List 1
		The North Central Asian nomadic group that migrated to Bactria in the late 2nd c.
		BCE and eventually invaded north India as the Kushans.
		He explored Central Asia from 139 to 126 BCE.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~arthist/jacobson/arh382/list01.htm (374 words)

	Babylonian Jewry
		The other group were the descendants of those deported by the Assyrians in 721 BCE from the northern kingdom of Israel.
		In the year 331 BCE, the Achaemenians lost control of Babylonia when their armies were defeated by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela near Arbil (Arbela).
		In 126 BCE, forty years after the Maccabian revolt in Israel, the Seleucid empire was driven out from Babylon by the Parthians, another Persian group, whose Arsacid dynasty provided 350 years of reasonably stable Persian rule, which though it had its ups and downs for the Jews, was generally a benign period.
	www.dangoor.com /74063.html (3913 words)

	Qumran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		16 from Herod Archelaus (4 BCE - 6 CE)
		1 Tyrian coin (53/54 CE) found in a lamp with a coin from Caesaria dated 67/68 CE Note: De Vaux concludes that the hoard was buried between 9/8 BCE and 1 BCE/1 CE.
		Trench A was the location north of the compound where the rubble from the destruction of level Ib was dumped.
	www.menorahcoinproject.org /qumran.htm (440 words)

	Yuezhi - Chinese ethnics - China
		The Yuezhi were visited by a Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BCE, which was seeking an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north.
		In a sweeping analysis of the physical types and cultures of the Central Asia he visited in 126 BCE, Zhang Qian reports that "although the states from Dayuan west to Anxi (Parthia), speak rather different languages, their customs are generally similar and their languages mutually intelligible.
		As they settled in Bactria from around 125 BCE, the Yuezhi became Hellenized to some degree, as suggested by their adoption of the Greek alphabet and by some remaining coins, minted in the style of the Greco-Bactrian kings, with the text in Greek.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Yuezhi (1728 words)

	Yuezhi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yuezhi were visited by a Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BC, that was seeking an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi to counter the Xiongnu threat to the north.
		Although the request for an alliance was denied by the son of the slain Yuezhi king, who preferred to maintain peace in Transoxiana rather than to seek revenge, Zhang Qian made a detailed account, reported in the Shiji, that gives a lot of insight into the situation in Central Asia at that time.
		In a sweeping analysis of the physical types and cultures of Central Asia that he visited in 126 BC, Zhang Qian reports that "although the states from Dayuan west to Anxi (Parthia), speak rather different languages, their customs are generally similar and their languages mutually intelligible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuezhi (3164 words)

	Solar Eclipses of Saros 126 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		olar eclipses of Saros 126 all occur at the Moon’s descending node and the Moon moves northward with each eclipse.
		The total duration of Saros series 126 is 1280.14 years.
		However, for annular eclipses, the instant of greatest duration may occur at either the time of greatest eclipse or near the sunrise and sunset points of the eclipse path.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros126.html (923 words)

	Judicial Chronicle (BCHP 17)
		It describes events in 34 and 90 SE (i.e., 278 and 222 BCE) and therefore belongs to the reign of the Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great.
		The robbery of 34 SE = 278 BCE is even mentioned in the Diaries.
		Year 90 (9 April 222-27 March 221 BCE) is considered by the Babylonian King List the year in which Antiochus III the Great ascended the throne; year 91 was his first full year.
	www.livius.org /cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-jud/jud_2.html (1333 words)

	"Firsts" in Ancient Jewish Coins
		during the later part of Persian rule, which began in 539 BCE with the Persian defeat of the Babylonian empire, and ended in 334 BCE with the conquest of the
		Minted by Antiochus VII during reign of Maccabean leader John Hyrcanus I, 132 to 130 BCE, bronze.
		Between the horns of the double cornucopia is a uniquely Jewish addition, the pomegranate, a symbol of fertility that was also as a symbol and design element used in the Temple in Jerusalem (see also Figure 7 for another example of the Pomegranate).
	home1.gte.net /vze3xycv/1stjewish.htm (2265 words)

	Roman Civilization Bates College Winter 2002 - M. Imber
		According to Livy, the dictator Aulus Postumius Albinus, vowed to build the Temple of Castor and Pollux during the battle of Lake Regillus in 499 BCE (??496??).
		Postumius' temple was in severe decay by 117 BCE when Caecilius Metellus restored it.
		In 146, Roman troops, under the command of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus [the natural son of Aemilius Paullus and grandson by adoption of Scipio Africanus], sacked Carthage (Tiepelo's painting).
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv02/w4c2.lec.htm (2691 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 1 No. 2\| Barbara Bennett Peterson: Dutiful Daughters: Seven Moral Exemplars in Chinese ...
		When the Di conquered Wei in 660 BCE, Xu Mu left her husband's kingdom of Xu, rallied her brothers, and marshaled support from neighboring kingdoms to successfully defend her ancestral home.
		Twice (138 and 126 BCE) Emperor Wudi dispatched envoy Zhang Qian to negotiate trade agreements in central and western Asia.
		In 75 BCE, twelve years after her marriage to Jun Xumi, Han and Wusun armies attacked the Xiongnu from east and west, dispersing them.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /1.2/peterson.html (3286 words)

	Quirinus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A second temple to Quirinus was dedicated on the Quirinal on 29 June 293 BCE by L. Papirius Cursor, probably in fulfillment of a vow by his father the dictator (14) in the wake of the Roman victories at Sentinum, 295 BCE and Aquilonia 293 BCE over the Samnites.
		However in 45 BCE the Senate honored Julius Caesar as a war hero and as ‘the unconquered god' by placing a statue of him in the temple of Quirinus, rather than in the Temple of Mars.
		The main festival of Quirinus is the Quirinalia, held on 17 Feb. This could be significant in that February did mark the end of the traditional calendar, and March the beginning, and thereby signify the transition of the season of Quirinus over to the season of Mars.
	home.tiscali.be /mauk.haemers/collegium_religionis/quirinus.htm (5942 words)

	Fabulous 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		France, 42000 B.C.E. Stones arranged from large to small, appearance of sinking into earth.
		Early classical 480 bce but retain archaic smile.
		Commemorates pacification of Spain and Gaul in 13 bce.
	students.risd.edu /yr2006/jbruesse/web/fabulous1.htm (9684 words)

	David and Goliath (No. 126)
		They were dislodged from what is understood to be the area of the Aegean at the end of the thirteenth century BCE.
		The mystery is deepened by the absence of writing from this period thus labelling the period at the beginning of the Iron Age, namely the twelfth to the eleventh centuries BCE, as the Dark Ages (not to be confused with the pre-medieval Dark Ages some 2,000 years later).
		The city of Ekron was a small Canaanite city of 50 Dunams and this was destroyed around 1200 BCE and replaced by a well fortified town of 200 Dunams.
	www.logon.org /english/s/p126.html (13890 words)

	Persia: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		88/87- Mithridates II ascended to the throne in *130 BCE**.
		In 92 BCE?, Mithridates II was able to conclude the first treaty between Parthia and Rome establishing the Euphrates as a mutual boundary.
		Ardashir I, son of Papak and a descendant of Sasan, was the ruler of one of the several small states into which Persia had gradually been divided.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/persia (3623 words)

	M. W. Chavalas and K. L. Younger, eds., Mesopotamia and the Bible: Comparative Explorations
		Looking at the stories of temple building in Sumer and in the Bible, Averbeck notes that whereas in the Bible such reports are woven into narrative contexts, the Gudea report, contextually speaking, records a ritual, which along with the whole process of building, was the main theme in his report.
		Sargon seems to have made a great impact on these regions both politically and militarily, an impact that was felt even after his death in battle.
		Accordingly, he proposes to look into two major aspects of Neo-Babylonian history: (1) the rise of the empire from 747 to 626 BCE and the heterogenous ethnic constitution of the inhabitants; and (2) the period 625-539 BCE which offers several features for comparison with biblical Israel.
	www.arts.ualberta.ca /JHS/reviews/review082.htm (2110 words)

	First Intermediate Period
		Period of Ancient Egypt, 2181-2055 BCE, 126 years, in which central authority was largely lost.
		The period was one of regional division, petty dynasties, rivalry, chaos and cultural decline.
		Intef himself made advances into Lower Egypt, conquering Abydos, but it would still be about a decade before the unification by Mentuhotep 2.
	i-cias.com /e.o/egypt_int01.htm (351 words)

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