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	GlitzQueen Newsletter on Necklaces and Earrings
		Strand necklaces were adapted for wear on other parts of the body, as shown by this diadem, buried with an ordinary woman and her cooking pots 500 years before Egypt united under one Pharaoh.
		By 1100 BCE or so, every culture in west Asia had it, but that was when everything started to go wrong.
		Their annexation of Greece in 146 BCE had no impact on Hellenistic design and, after conquering Egypt in 31 BCE, they represented their rulers as successors of the Pharaohs, as the Greeks had done.
	www.glitzqueen.com /necklacesandearrings.html (10426 words)

	Bin Yang \| Horses, Silver, and Cowries: Yunnan in Global Perspective \| Journal of World History, 15.3 \| The History ...
		Emperor Wu of Han (140–87 BCE) then dispatched his envoys and troops to pacify local polities around Yunnan, with the expectation that he could open this road for his sake.
		In the year 138 BCE, Zhang Qian volunteered to be the Han envoy to the Western Regions (xiyu) where he was supposed to forge an alliance with the Yuezhi people against the Xiongnu, who posed a major threat to the young, ambitious Emperor Wu (140–87 BCE) of the Western Han dynasty (220 BCE–9 CE).
		All these tombs are dated before the Qin unification in 221 BCE and demonstrate that cowries were present in Yunnan before the late third century BCE.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/15.3/yang.html (13737 words)

	Powelson Chapter 7 - Africa: Trade, Entrepreneurship, Pluralism, and Leverage
		Herodotus reported that in 500 BCE horse-drawn chariots were crossing the Sahara from the Fezzan and from southern Morocco.
		Alliances were made with the Portuguese on both sides of the continent and with the Arabs to the east, leading to trade as far as the Americas and China.
		Experimentation and innovation occurred in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE) in Egypt, with a tripling of agricultural output in the Fayyum and the introduction of new viticulture.
	www.quaker.org /tqe/wealth-and-poverty/07africa.htm (5507 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- S
		The uprights of the horseshoe are somewhat tapered, possibly a perspective effect to make them look bigger, and the lintels are also tapered, possibly to make them appear straight up when viewed from the ground.
		It is believed these joints were cut after the uprights were in place and with a timber framework around the uprights, but it still seems to require a certain amount of geometric skill - one would not want to keep trying to see if the piece fits.
		At Stourton, near the famous house and gardens of Stourhead, is 'Alfred's Tower', a 160 ft high triangular tower, built by Henry Hoare, the builder of Stourhead, from 1768 [Barton, pp.210-211, with photo].
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/S.html (6389 words)

	NEW BOOKS
		This is the first comprehensive introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the Quakers or Friends with an overview of present day practice.
		It charts the growth of the Quaker movement through the 1650s and 1660s, its different theological emphasis in the eighteenth century, and the schisms of the nineteenth century which resulted in the range of Quaker traditions found around the world today.
		In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions that have endured to the present day - the development of Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece.
	www.quakerbooks.org /new-books (2144 words)

	Powelson Chapter 7 - Africa: Trade, Entrepreneurship, Pluralism, and Leverage
		Herodotus reported that in 500 BCE horse-drawn chariots were crossing the Sahara from the Fezzan and from southern Morocco.
		Alliances were made with the Portuguese on both sides of the continent and with the Arabs to the east, leading to trade as far as the Americas and China.
		Experimentation and innovation occurred in the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BCE) in Egypt, with a tripling of agricultural output in the Fayyum and the introduction of new viticulture.
	tqe.quaker.org /wealth-and-poverty/07africa.htm (5507 words)

	City of Toronto, Arts Heritage & Culture: History:: NATIVES AND NEWCOMERS, 1600-1793
		However, the largest group of surviving Hurons were absorbed as wartime adoptees into the Iroquois nations to the south and eventually were integrated as full members of the Five Nations Confederacy.
		After the massive victory over their indigenous enemies, some Iroquois people moved to the Toronto area in the mid 1660s.
		Thus, its character shifted again, from being a hinterland for the now-dispersed Hurons of Georgian Bay, as it had been since the end of the 1500s, to a colonized area for the Iroquois of New York.
	www.toronto.ca /culture/history/history-natives-newcomers.htm (2646 words)

	ArtLex on Landscape, artists born before 1700
		Vessel Decorated with Animals and a 'Landscape', middle of the 3rd millennium BCE, silver, height 9.6 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
		31 BCE - 50 CE, mid-Augustan, Third Style, fresco, height 73 3/4 inches (187.33 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
		The Marsh, 1660s, oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 39 inches (72.5 x 99 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/kl/landscape/-1700.html (909 words)

	Barry & Darling Ancient Coins
		British coinage starts in the late 2d century BCE when Belgic and Gallic Celts traded with the Isles or fled Roman legions, bringing coins with them.
		Right up until the Restoration of Charles II in the 1660s, British coins are hand-hammered, just like the issues of ancient Greece and Rome.
		British hammered coins are surprisingly thin and were often "clipped" around the edges by those who wanted to accumulate valuable silver.
	www.ancient-times.com /info/british_history.html (821 words)

	Hypocras (Pepys' Diary)
		Hypocras (also hippocras) is a drink made from wine, possibly heated, and mixed with spices, most notably cinnamon.
		Its invention was traditionally attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates (Vth century BCE), whose name would have been given to the concoction.
		Actually, the drink is first mentioned in texts from the mid XIIth century, and the word is encountered for the first time two centuries later.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/7447.php (426 words)

	St. Patrick's Day, Irish Style - Ireland, Alan Jay, Europe, Europe Travel Stories, Ireland, Ireland Travel Stories ...
		My first stop was the Old Library to see the Long Room and the Book of Kells.
		Written around 800 BCE by Irish monks, the Latin text contains four gospels elaborately decorated.
		The book has been in the Library since the 1660s.
	www.bootsnall.com /articles/00-09/st-patricks-day-irish-style-ireland.html (3289 words)

	2006 New 2006 July: Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project Research on history, geography and logistics of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Reportret Gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history, without anachronisms, respecting contemporary style, and based on historical sources.
		The list has a special focus on research and construction of accurate, correctable and interoperable geo/chrono-referenced electronic data-sets describing known land, river and maritime trade and pilgrimage routes of Eurasia and Africa between 10,000 BCE and approx.
		Research on history, geography and logistics of communication, pilgrimage, and trade routes of Eurasia and Africa 10,000 BCE to circa 1820 CE.
	www.society.new-2006.com /website.102.Disable_Hotline.html (994 words)

	194. Good and Faithful Servant II
		Arriving at the St. Lawrence in the early 1660s, he didn't have long to wait for an assignment.
		When the aging Jesuit Father Jacques Menard vanished while on a journey in northern Wisconsin, Allouez was assigned to replace him and sent to Lake Superior, where he established himself in 1665 at Chequamegon.
		For all you geology freaks, the New York City / State timelines for the BC (BCE) have been updated at
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/TM001104.html (712 words)

	325 BC oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		- 383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali.
		- 312 BCE Seleucus I Nicator established himself in Babylon.
		- 323 BCE Alexander the Great conqueres the Persian Empire.
	www.oddd.org /en/325+BC (686 words)

	Chronology
		In Europe, the feminine aspect of support through trust begins to wane by the first half of the first millennium B.C.E..
		1600 B.C.E. Height of Minoan civilization and bull worship.
		The Enuma Anu Enlil, (when the gods Anu (Heaven), Enlil (Earth) and Ea (Water) established in council the plans of the sky and earth)- 7,000 omens and predictions from Nineveh inscribed in the 7th century incorporating material from about 1646 B.C.E. Eclipses observed and dated in Babylon (747).
	www.astroconsulting.com /FAQs/chronology.htm (5032 words)

	Timeline Beer and Wine
		5.4k-5k BCE Archeologists have determined that wine was made in villages in Iran's remote Zagros Mountains about this time.
		Wine jars were dug up near the ruined village called Hajii Firuz Tepe and analyzed to have contained a retsina type of wine.
		1660s The British began to dominate the trade in port wine from Portugal after a political spat with the French denied them the French Bordeaux wines.
	timelines.ws /subjects/Wine.HTML (10299 words)

	Harold Olejarz - Photography
		We didn't get a chance to explore the gardens because of a coming storm.
		The castle was started by Charles Cavendish in 1612 and completed by his son, William Cavendish in the 1660s.
		The site has a Riding House, Gallery, great hall and "Little Castle" with high walls and turrets.
	www.olejarz.com /art/photography (1405 words)

	1660s Did You Mean 1660s? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.did-you-mean.com /1660s.html (327 words)

	Ancient Greek Fishing Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The use of ship images in art history: Merchant Vessels and Pleasure Craft of the Greek Islands as depicted in Ancient Greek art...
		Allart van Everdingen / Fishing Boats in a Harbor / 1660s
		Mycenaean Shipping Amphora Dated approximately 1700 BCE These frescoes of ancient Greek art illustrate the use of boats for transportation, fishing, and as pleasure crafts.
	www.avid-angler.com /ancient-greek-fishing-boats.html (305 words)

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