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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Pandemic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peloponnesian War, 430 BCE[?] - An unknown agent killed a quarter of the Athenian troops and a quarter of the population over four years.
Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s (killing 150,000 including the emperor in Tenochtitlan alone) and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors; measles killed a further two million Mexican natives in the 1600s.
Examples include the previously mentioned plague in 430 BCE Greece and the English Sweat in sixteenth-century England which struck people down in an instant and was more greatly feared even than the bubonic plague.
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 E-Diplomacy: History of Asia- Indian Subcontinent
Though all that remains of this civilization are the ruins at Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, historians have concluded that this culture traded with the Sumerians and Babylonians, and was fairly advanced, with a central sewage system and copper weapons.
In 326 BCE, Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king whose brilliance on the battlefield was only matched by his penchant for mass murder of his conquered subjects, invaded Northern India.
In the 1520s, one of his descendants, Babur, established the Mogul Empire.
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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Maya civilization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
However, this is preceded by several other writing systems which had developed in Mesoamerica, most notably that of the Olmec culture, which originated around 700 - 500 BCE.
The Maya system is believed by Mayanist scholars to have derived from this earlier script; however in the succeeding centuries the Maya developed their script into a form which was far more complete and complex than that of its predecessors.
The Spanish started their conquest of the Maya lands in the 1520s.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Maya_civilization   (4381 words)

  
 Maya civilization - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The region had however been inhabited since at least the 10th millennium BCE, and the point at which distinctive Maya-like characteristics first arose is not well-defined.
By the period known to archaeologists as the mid-Preclassic (or mid-Formative, around 600 BCE), some of the earliest Maya complexes had been constructed.
The Maya system is believed by Mayanist scholars to have derived from this earlier script; however in the succeeding centuries the Maya developed their script into a form which was far more complete and complex than that of its predecessors.
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 Sphinx Information
Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in late 15th century Rome, and she was incorporated into the classical vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Her first appearances in French art are in the School of Fontainebleau in the 1520s and 30s; her last appearances are in the Late Baroque style of the French Régence (1715–1723).
Sphinxes were too somber perhaps for the Rococo, and they tended to disappear from the European design repertory - until revived in the 19th century, with its romanticism, and later symbolism.
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 The Book
Such portraits of the living learned physician begin to appear in printed books from the 1520s on, but Vesalius’ is the first to show the learned anatomist at work.
Aristotle and his pupil Diocles in the 330s BCE had carried out a whole series of dissections on animals, birds and fishes.
From the 1520s, anatomy became the new subject for study, and it was vigorously encouraged by all the leading protagonists of humanist medicine.
vesalius.northwestern.edu /chapters/FA.aa.03.html   (10022 words)

  
 Sphinx - Wikinfo
Such Sphinxes were revived when the grottesche or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Golden House" (Domus Aurea) of Nero were brought to light in early 16th century Rome, and she was incorporated into the vocabulary of arabesque designs that was spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Her first appearances in French art are in the School of Fontainebleau in the 1520s and 30s; her last appearances are in the Late Baroque style of the French Régence (1715 - 1723).
Sphinxes were too somber perhaps for the Rococo, and they tended to disappear from the European design repertory.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sphinx   (1987 words)

  
 Timeline (Vegetarian World) - Alternative History
341 BCE: Epicurus is born on the island of Samos to Athenianian émigrés.
Finally, Epicureanism gave the vegetarian movement in Western Civilization a major push, as Epicurus' school called "The Garden" is thought to have taught the virtues of vegetarianism.
1520s: By this time, it was apparent that a plague of smallpox was wiping whole Native Populations out.
althistory.wikia.com /wiki/Timeline_(Vegetarian_World)   (4409 words)

  
 The Mariners' Museum | EXPLORATION through the AGES
And although it took European cattle longer than the horse or pig to adapt to the wet, hot climate of Central America, by the 1520s there were over 8,000 of them.
Many Europeans felt that if the Africans were allowed to have food like that of their homeland, they might adjust better to the condition of slavery.
Originating in Northern Africa, the guinea hen was domesticated in Europe in the 4th century BCE Slaves were allowed to grow crops like yams and melons and raise goats, chickens, and, yes, guinea hens.
www.mariner.org /exploration/?type=webpage&id=46   (2955 words)

  
 Jerusalem and Glastonbury
Around 1250 BCE the Hebrews occupied the Jordan valley, but Jebus remained a Jebusite city for 250 years more, with a Hebrew tribe, the Benjaminities, living peacably outside.
Many suspect it was an ancient centre for a succession of faiths and mystery schools, including that of the Megalithic period (3000s-2000s BCE), ancient Goddess cults and, later, after 1000 BCE, the Druids.
This ended in the 1520s when Henry VIII dissolved the Catholic church and monasteries in England, for power-political reasons.
www.jerusalempeacemakers.org /intro-jeruglasta.html   (1323 words)

  
 History of South India Information
During the reign of Asoka (304 BCE - 232 BCE) The three Tamil dynasties of Chola, Chera and Pandya were runing in the south.
Domingo Paes, the Portuguese trader who lived in the capital in the 1520s wrote of its prosperity, splendor and bazaars full of with precious stones.
Vijayanagara was conquered by the combined forces of the Deccan sultanates in 1565 in the Battle of Tallikota.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/History_of_South_India   (3456 words)

  
 Astrological Timecycles in History: Neptune-Pluto Cycles by Palden Jenkins
Following the -570s was the conjunction of 84/83 BCE.
The first conjunction of the Taurus series was in 1071 BCE, and the first of the Gemini series was in 1398-99 CE.
The conjunction of 1071 BCE marked a prehistoric watershed, when many early civilisations faded into the past.
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 History
Their expansion into India proper was prevented by the rise of the Mauryan dynasty in the late fourth-century BCE, which succeeded in uniting most of India under centralized rule.
During the late sixth and early fifth centuries BCE, when the Persian empire was at its height, most of what was then Greece and much of Northwestern India were united under Persian rule.
Regarding the province of Northwest India, he commented that "the Indians, the most populous nation in the world, paid the largest sum: 360 talents of gold-dust." (de Sélincourt 1996:192) This was a princely sum, considering that the other provinces all paid in silver.
www.infinityfoundation.com /mandala/history_overview.htm   (12926 words)

  
 Definition Influenza
Smallpox also ravaged Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150,000 in Tenochtitlán alone, including the emperor, and Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors.
There are also a number of unknown diseases that were extremely serious but have now vanished, so the etiology of these diseases cannot be established.
Examples include the previously mentioned plague in 430 BCE Greece and the English Sweat in 16th-century England, which struck people down in an instant and was more greatly feared even than the bubonic plague.
www.maphtc.iupui.edu /html/CD_Training/Avian_Influenza_and_other_pandemic_influenza/facts.html   (1917 words)

  
 Introduction by Vivian Nutton
But he had a practical side to him that is often forgotten.
In the 1520s and 1530s he had translated many of the newly published works of Galen, but he did not begin to lecture within the medical Faculty until 1536.
At least until 1542 Vesalius always spoke of him with respect, and his recollections of his teaching do not depict the ferocious Galenist of his last years.
vesalius.northwestern.edu /books/FA.aa.html   (20089 words)

  
 World Religions- Christianity
Beginning in the middle of the 2nd century BCE, Qumran had been occupied by a group of priests who left Jerusalem for the desert led by someone referred to as the Teacher of Righteousness, apparently exiled from the Temple priesthood by one known only as the Wicked Priest.
Hitler often quoted Luther's anti-Semitic rantings, and the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 that began the Holocaust was scheduled by the Nazis to honor Luther's birthday.
The movement rose in Zurich in the 1520s and spread across German-speaking Europe before splitting into opposing factions.
www.joyofsects.com /world/christianity.shtml   (11393 words)

  
 Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
The "axial" period from 3000 BCE to the first centuries of the common era produced a wide range of religious traditions, preserved in Israelite religion, Hellenistic philosophy, Vedantic Hinduism, and Confucian/Tao philosophy.
During the 1520s Luther became an ardent defender of the principle that the finite is capable of holding the infinite and that the material is a vehicle of the divine.
Artistic endeavors and visual images were affirmed by Luther’s followers, and they became integral parts of the worship space and of worship experience.
www.lstc.edu /resources/publications/currents/currents_ed_06_01.html   (4419 words)

  
 Freesinger Roy
   Before 8000 BCE all the men in the world were raised to be warriors; the tribe had to have ample supplies of warriors in order to combat other tribes that coveted the same water, land, animals, fruit & veggies that thrived at water sites.
400 BCE) are similar & assert that Goliath was ‘not’ a giant, but a normal size warrior, & that he was killed by Elhanan in 2 Samuel; & that Jonathan killed Goliath’s brother in 1 Chronicles; there is no mention of the famous story of David killing Goliath by slingshot, in either of these books.
It is in 1 Samuel [c.538 BCE] that the long exciting story of David & Goliath appears.
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 Glossary of Theological Terms
The term used in the present volume to refer to the sacrament variously known as "the mass," "the Lord's supper," and "holy communion."
A term initially used to refer to the nascent reforming movements, especially in Germany and Switzerland, in the 1510s and 1520s.
The term was later replaced by "Protestant" in the aftermath of the Diet of Speyer.
dunamai.com /articles/Christian/Glossary_Theological_Terms.htm   (11970 words)

  
 BIBLE TRANSLATIONS : Encyclopedia Entry
With most people speaking only Aramaic and not understanding Hebrew, the Targums were created to allow the common person to understand the Torah as it was read in ancient synagogues.
Tyndale's Bible (1526) met with heavy sanctions, and William Tyndale was jailed in 1535 for translating the Old Testament.
The Froschauer Bible of 1531 and the Luther Bible of 1534 (both appearing in portions throughout the 1520s) were an important part of the Reformation.
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Bible_translations   (6203 words)

  
 Newsletter
The Roman engineer and theorist, Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (1st century BCE) generated a conceptual matrix based on both practice and theory which in many ways determined the interpretation and the history of architecture from the Middle Ages onward in the West.
De Jong investigates the impact of Clement VII's decision to change the content of frescoes painted in the 1520s by Raphael and his students in the papal audience chamber known as the Sala di Constantino.
This change is shown to be directed against Protestant doubts about the legitimacy of the papacy and against earlier humanist scholarship proving the illegitimacy of the so-called Donation of Constantine, a document supposedly confirming the supremacy of the papacy over earthly governments.
faculty.uml.edu /CulturalStudies/atsah/newsletter_wint02.htm   (3183 words)

  
 3000 Level Art History, Theory, and Criticism
The main thrust of the course will be an investigation of Mannerism as a natural unwinding of the High Renaissance and as a sometimes knowing and sophisticated distortion of the intentions of that style.
The incipient mannerism in the first maniera of the 1520s in Florence, Rome, and Emilia will be distinguished from the high maniera in Florence and Rome, and the counter-maniera/counter Reformation style of the 1570s.
Interwoven into the stylistic complexities of this period are the isolated manifestations of the Baroque (Correggio).
www.artic.edu /~chsu/saic/programs/depts/courses/arthi3desc.html   (5079 words)

  
 AIDS: Pandemic
Historical pandemics There have been a number of significant pandemics in human history, all of them generally zoonoses that came about with domestication of animals - such as smallpox, diphtheria, influenza and tuberculosis.
There have been a number of particularly significant epidemics that deserve mention above the 'mere' destruction of cities: * Peloponnesian War, 430 BCE - An unknown agent killed a quarter of the Athenian troops and a quarter of the population over four years.
Concern about possible future pandemics Diseases that may possibly attain pandemic proportions include Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Marburg, Ebola and Bolivian haemorrhagic fever.
www.americanfactfinders.com /AIDS/Pandemic.shtml   (1015 words)

  
 Article - Journical.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Decades:
1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s
Confucianism: "Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you" Analects 15:23 "Tse-kung asked, 'Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?' Confucius replied, 'It is the word 'shu' -- reciprocity.
The original dates to 1970 to 1640 BCE and may be the earliest version ever written.
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 EXEGETICAL EXERCISE: 20-30 minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
What broad themes do you think the final editor or author uses to connect these two stories in the same longer story?
BCE, Alexandria, Egypt; used by Greek-speaking Jews and early Christians
Tyndale (1520s and 30s) – direct translation from Hebrew and Greek; served as basis for KJV
academic.evergreen.edu /curricular/ES/handou~2.html   (699 words)

  
 Proposed Curriculum 2005-2006
A review of the earliest emergence of state-stratified societies in the Old World (Pharaonic Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Shang China) and their integration through trade, conflict, migrations, and diffusions of technologies, particularly metalworking, with neighboring illiterate societies on their peripheries.
A survey of visual culture in Mexico from the Spanish conquest in the 1520s to current developments in contemporary art.
Examination of art and architecture from their first and still mysterious beginnings in the Indus Valley, through the great masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu art to the coming of Islam, including the eclectic culture of the Mughal courts and the golden age of miniature paintings.
www.wellesley.edu /DeanCollege/CCI/a-b.html   (14049 words)

  
 eFanzines.com - Ed Meskys: The View From Entropy Hall
\The second crux point was the battle of Saladon in 480 BCE when Greeks, under the leadership of Thomasticles, defeated the invading Persians in a great sea battle.
It was only because of thomasticles nagging insistence that the Greeks were equipped for the battle, and fought it in a favorable location.
The Greeks were just beginning to develop their proto-democracy, unique in the world, and their concepts of literature and culture.
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 Amazon.com: Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico: Books: Hugh Thomas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
From the author of The Spanish Civil War comes this epic history of the fall of the Aztec empire to Spain.
Digging into thousands of pages of legal testimony given in the 1520s by participants in Cortes's expedition against the Mexico of ancient Mesoamerica, Thomas revisits the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire.
The result is a richer account of the personalities, events, and social setting of this momentous episode than currently exists in accessible form.
www.amazon.com /Conquest-Cortes-Montezuma-Fall-Mexico/dp/product-description/0671511041   (5468 words)

  
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A more pedestrian (and plausible) theory suggests that the petroglyphs were meant to be viewed from nearby hilltops and formed part of a water divination ritual.
Thus the date used here: while the Nazca culture dates to the first century BCE, it did not start building major underground aqueducts in the Atacama Desert until the sixth century CE.
This causality is not entirely certain, as those same merchants appeared in Bali about the same time, and Balinese culture did not show significant Indian influence until the 1520s, when the island was invaded by Javanese Hindus fleeing Islamic persecution.
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