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	ArtLex's Se-Sf page
		Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene, 2250-2150 BCE, Late Akkadian period, chert, height 1.1 inches (2.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
		American, [two versions of the] Seal of the United States Department of State, which is based upon the Great Seal of the United States of America.
		- An early, pre-Classical, transitional style of mid-fifth century BCE Greek statuary that is formal but not rigid in pose and emphasizes the principle of weight distribution; a liberation from the archaic limitation of frontal rigidity found in Egyptian portrait statues.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Se.html (3743 words)

	Crossbow - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Triggers are known to have been used on crossbows from the early 1400s.
		In the later 1400s, steel manufacturing advanced significantly, and was more commonly used in spring production.
		A crossbow prod was made out of spring steel,steel prods being very common by the early 1500s as their performance was more uniform, except in very cold weather.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/r/o/Crossbow.html (1384 words)

	Crete - Wikipedia Mirror
		Marcus Antonius Creticus attacked Crete in 71 BCE and was repelled.
		After a ferocious three-year campaign Crete was conquered for Rome in 69 BCE, earning this Metellus the agnomen "Creticus." The result was Gortyn being made the capital of a province that at times joined Cyrenaica to Crete.
		Crete continued to be part of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine empire, a quiet cultural backwater, until it fell into the hands of Arabs (see Al-Hakam I) in 824, who established an emirate on the island.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php?title=Crete (1585 words)

	Crossbow
		Bronze triggers are known to have been used on crossbows from at least 200 BCE in China and sophisticated iron triggers are known in Europe from the early 1400s.
		In the later 1400s, steel manufacturing advanced significantly, and was more commonly used in spring production.
		Prods made from spring steel were very common by the early 1500s, as their performance was more uniform (except in very cold weather).
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Crossbow (2161 words)

	History of Crete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Based on this, it is thought that Crete was inhabited from the 7th millennium BCE onwards.
		By the 16th century BCE pottery and other remains on the Greek mainland show that the so-called Minoans had far-reaching contacts on the mainland.
		In 88 BCE Mithridates VI of Pontus on the Black Sea, went to war to halt the advance of Roman hegemony in the Aegean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Crete (2866 words)

	Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700
		The texts span from 2300 BCE to the early 18th century, with about half of them written after 1400.
		The majority of women whose works are reproduced were nobility, but writings from other women have survived and are also presented here.
		Nearly all the texts reproduced are translations, and the three English sources date from the 1300s and 1400s.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/r/1/wwh.html (634 words)

	Old World Contacts/Modes of Transport/Ships of the Old World
		The earliest existing evidence for the use of sails in Northern Europe is much later in date – between the 1st century BCE and the second and third centuries CE.
		Previously, in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Athenians had developed a type of warship called the trireme, which employed three banks of oarsmen in order to maximise speed and manoeuvrability in combat.
		Planked boats and reed crafts were in use by the third millennium BCE and there are records of voyages from Babylon, through the Persian Gulf, to the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and even further to western India.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/transport/ships.html (2101 words)

	E-Diplomacy: History of Asia- China
		Little is known about this era of Chinese history, except that this dynasty was overthrown in 1500 BCE by Tang, a noble who founded the Shang Dynasty.
		Despite the confusing political situation, new roads were built, the crossbow created, flood control systems begun, and the iron plow was developed - an advancement that allowed the country to become the most populated in the world at the time.
		By the 1400s though the explorations were stopped, foreign trade discouraged, and the construction of seagoing vessels prohibited.
	library.thinkquest.org /C004488/hAC.html (2161 words)

	Din's Timelines Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 5000 to 1 BCE Timeline has the rise of literate civilizations all over the world.
		The 1000 to 1199 Timeline and 1200 to 1399 Timeline has western europe coming out of its dark age and the eventual Renaissance in Florence.
		The 1400s Timeline: The beginning of the Age of Exploration.
	www.greenepa.net /~barondin/library/indexm.html (232 words)

	Dates On Coins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the Japanese native system is actually the one found on most ancient coins: the year of the current ruler.
		However, the calendar of Antioch was changed in 55 BCE to honor Julius Caesar.
		However, it wasn't until the 1400s that Christian Era dating was accepted throughout the Christian world.
	www.coin-newbies.com /articles/dates.html (603 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 3 No. 2\| Book Review
		The series is broken into four volumes covering four time periods: Antiquity -- 5000 BCE to 400s CE; The Spread of Religions and Empires -- 400s to 1400s; The Age of Discovery and Colonial Expansion -- 1400s to 1900s; and The Contemporary World –1900s to the Present.
		The preface explains why the series was undertaken, why topics were chosen (emphasizing cross-cultural encounters that produced historical change on a global scale), and the scope of the series (important instances of cross-cultural contact in human history).
		There is a timeline and a visual of a 5th century b.c.e.
	worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu /3.2/br_dalesandro-haug.html (1045 words)

	Curious Facts From The Organ's History
		The concept of the organ appears to have been created in 246 BCE by Ctesibius of Alexandria.
		The first reference to hydraulis-playing, in the form of a "delphic inscription" was in 90 BCE.
		By the 1400s, the use of organs was well established in monastic churches and cathedrals throughout Europe.
	www.westfield.org /curious.htm (1749 words)

	Historical Adventure
		1400s FP 1955 Story of ardent, beautiful Isabella, Queen of Aragon and Castille, who united Spain, ran off the Moors, and led her country into the new world.
		1400s FP 1954 All the chivalry, debauchery, and cruelty of medieval France under the rule of Louis XI comes to life.
		1400s FP 1970 A dramatic historical novel set in the late 14th century as a young man seeks vengeance against a lord of the realm and is swept into the maeltrom of violent political action.
	www.bazillionbooks.com /historicaladventure.html (2374 words)

	Crossbow information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A weapon similar to the crossbow, known as a ballista, was used around the Mediterranean by the Roman Empire and others during the Hellenistic Period.
		The bow (called the "prod" on a crossbow) of early crossbows were made of a single piece of wood, usually ash or yew.
		Complicated iron triggers are known in Europe from the early 1400s.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Crossbow (1375 words)

	World History Connected \| Vol. 3 No. 2\| Book Review
		The series is broken into four volumes covering four time periods: Antiquity -- 5000 BCE to 400s CE; The Spread of Religions and Empires -- 400s to 1400s; The Age of Discovery and Colonial Expansion -- 1400s to 1900s; and The Contemporary World –1900s to the Present.
		The preface explains why the series was undertaken, why topics were chosen (emphasizing cross-cultural encounters that produced historical change on a global scale), and the scope of the series (important instances of cross-cultural contact in human history).
		There is a timeline and a visual of a 5th century b.c.e.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/whc/3.2/br_dalesandro-haug.html (1053 words)

	Social Studies - Ancient Medieval Civ
		Ancient Era (1000 BCE - 300 CE)
		The learner will be able to demonstrate knowledge of how early humans are studied and what archaeological evidence reveals about their communities (Develop).
		The learner will be able to evaluate the importance of the trade routes between Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley in 3000 BCE (Introduce).
	www.fayar.net /admin/edvision/socstud/CR4375.HTM (1234 words)

	Ancient Medieval Civilizations
		In order to prepare students to make sense of these changes and relate to one another socially, politically, economically, and geographically today and in the future, the social studies program offers opportunity for study in history, geography, and the social sciences.
		The Prehistoric and Early Civilizations World History unit includes the social, cultural, and political aspects of communities and civilizations that existed prior to 1000 BCE.
		The Ancient Era World History unit includes the social, cultural, and political aspects of societies and civilizations that existed from 1000 BCE to 300 CE.
	www.fayar.net /admin/sped/CMO/Social_Studies/ss_12_AMC_mastered.htm (311 words)

	Timeline (Vegetarian World) - Alternative History - a Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		500s BCE: Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and "the father of numbers" teaches that a vegetarian diet is best for the body and spirit.
		In the northern Italian states (particularly Milan) and into the rest of Europe, these vegetarian ideas mix with Catharism, which preaches vegetarianism already, as well as Catholicism, giving further credence and support to Cathar practices and winning over a few Catholics to the cause.
		1400s: Catatania (OTL Occitania (FR), Catalonia (SP), Valencia (SP)), which is largely Cathar, becomes a major power in Europe through trade.
	althistory.wikia.com /wiki/Timeline_(Vegetarian_World) (4031 words)

	Map of Israel and Judah to 733 BCE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Map of Israel and Judah to 733 BCE
		Inhabited as early as 10,000 or 8,000 BCE.
		Conquered by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 1400s.
	fsmitha.com /h1/map05isr.htm (80 words)

	The Stutz's Travel Pictures
		It is one of the oldest towns on the Mediterranean, having been occupied by different groups since at least 2,000 BCE.
		Presently it is a good stop for those who want to experience a promenade, some city walls, and great hospitality away from the better-known of the Croatian cities.
		Entering the old town walls from the mainland, the statue of Blessed John of Trogir, dating from the early 1400s, welcomes you to his domain.
	stutzfamily.com /TravPix/Croatia/springbreak06/trogir.html (456 words)

	Geonomy
		it was founded in 588 bce by greek colonists from kerkyra (corfu) and corinth, and was perhaps the most important of the several classical towns known as 'apollonia'.
		the olmec civilization was prominent in mesoamerica from as early as 1500 bce through 400 bce.
		la venta is dated to between 1200 bce and 400 bce with its greatest prominence coming after 900 bce during the middle formative period.
	www.geonomy.com /geonomy/viewHome.do?zoom=2&tagName=Ruins (2625 words)

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		However, coal was not used widely until the Middle Ages, when small mining operations in Europe began to supply it for forges, smithies, lime-burners, and breweries.
		The invention of firebricks in the late 1400s, which made chimneys cheap to build, helped create a home heating market for coal.
		Despite its drawbacks (smoke and fumes), coal was firmly established as a domestic fuel by the 1570s.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/aer/eh/coal.html (739 words)

	Old World Contacts/Colonists/Canary Islands
		Cane sugar has been a favoured Old World food since 8000 BCE, when knowledge of the product began to spread from fields in New Guinea north into other locales in the Far East, and into India.
		Linguistic evidence indicates that the Asian nomads called Aryans, who overwhelmed the ancient cultures of the Indus Valley after 1500 BCE, were familiar with sugar.
		In the late 1300s and 1400s, the Portuguese colonised Madeira and the Azores for the same purpose and the Spanish absorbed the Canary Islands.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/colonists/canary.html (750 words)

	The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
		The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a burial tomb for King Mausolus, who ruled the Caria province of the Persian Empire in the western portion of Asia Minor from 377-353 BCE.
		It was finished in 350 BCE, which was three years after the king's death and one after that of his wife.
		By 1522, almost all of the Mausoleum had been dismantled by soldiers of crusade in their attempts to fortify the castle they built there in the 1400s.
	www.personal.psu.edu /mdt170/halicarnassus.html (1134 words)

	Sakya Monastery
		Around the first century BCE, a new form of Buddhism developed on the Indian subcontinent.
		Tibetan translators going to India and Indian sages coming to Tibet revived Buddhist teaching in Tibet between the late 900s and the 1200s.
		By the early 1400s, there were four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
	www.sakya.org /Introduction_to_Tibetan_Buddhism.htm (1703 words)

	Chapter Two
		Section A: Chronology In order to read the Bible with any degree of understanding at all, students should familiarize themselves with a brief chronological structure which can be easily memorized and used to place books appropriately in the era they describe.
		Excavation points to 1200-900 BCE in the Iron Age for this crossing.
		Whether the settlement was a blitzkrieg, rapid and definitive, or a lengthy and complicated process is still being debated; Joshua suggests the former.
	crain.english.missouriwestern.edu /bible_as_literature/new_page_2.htm (1374 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although it appears to not be a direct influence on Tarot, mystics later connected the two based on their similar correspondences.
		Pythagoras (582-507 BCE), mathematician and mystic, influenced Plato (428-347 BCE), a philosopher and mystic whose writings were very important to Greek philosophy and mysticism.
		The triumph is ancient and Etruscan in origin (300-400 BCE).
	rachyllgyne.tripod.com /id18.html (1519 words)

	A History of Attitudes Toward Wolves - Content Footnotes
		These civilizations existed from about 15,000 BCE to approximately 1500 BCE.
		This text gives an excellent and detailed overview of the wolf ritual as it was performed on the Northwest Coast.
		(6) Merchant 1980 considers the scientific revolution to begin during the late 1400s.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /kpgeorge/issues/wolves_history/history_footnotes.htm (604 words)

	Hittites and Mitanni (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With Mitanni having collapsed, however, Assyria expanded westward from its heartland, conquering and annexing what was left of Mitanni in the thirteenth century BCE.
		At first they were organized into a number of city-states, but around 1700 BCE one of their kings fused these all into a larger kingdom.
		They penetrated northern Syria and deeply into Mesopotamia, Mursilis capturing Babylon in 1595 BCE in a lightning campaign that led to the shrinking of Hammurabi's old empire and the incursion of the Kassites.
	www.ancient-egypt.net /hittites_and_mitanni.htm (1011 words)

	Herat Summary
		Alexander of Macedon (356–323 BCE) destroyed the Persian citadel and the city around 328 BCE, during his conquest of the Persians.
		It was captured by Alexander in 330 BCE during his war against the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
		In the late 1400s the Musallah complex (with many minarets) was built under the rule of Queen Gawharshad.
	www.bookrags.com /Herat (1064 words)

	ArtLex's Ci-Cn page
		Cinerary Urn, mid-2nd century BCE, terra cotta with traces of
		Originally it was used when referring to the art of ancient Greece produced during the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.
		A rarer type of cloisonné is that in which the wire enclosures surround inlaid stones.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Ci.html (3140 words)

	World History: Ancient History: Greeks: Mycenaeans: Schliemann at Mycenae (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the Mycenaeans flourished around 1500 or 1600 BCE, earlier than the supposed time of Trojan War, this great civilization from the past probably did inspire the later Homeric tales.
		But the shaft graves themselves date from the early Mycenaean period and were certainly not the graves of Mycenaean warriors who went to Troy.
		The walls of Mycenae were built later, in the 1400s BCE, and the shaft graves had long been there.
	www.historywiz.com /agamemnon.htm (518 words)

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