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	CalendarHome.com - 2nd millennium BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
		Pharaoh Kamose of the Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1573 BC - 1570 BC).
		Pharaoh Ramesses I of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1293 BC - 1291 BC).
		Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1291 BC - 1278 BC).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /2nd_millennium_BC.htm (939 words)

	18th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1787 – 1784 BC -- Amorite conquests of Uruk and Isin.
		1766 BC -- Shang conquest of Xia Dynasty.
		1750 BC -- Hyksos occupation of Northern Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/18th_century_BC (320 words)

	India - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Another early culture—the Vedic culture—dates from approximately 1500 bc and is considered one of the sources for India’s predominantly Hindu culture and for the foundation of several important philosophical traditions.
		By the 6th century bc, Indian civilization was firmly centered at the eastern end of the Gangetic Plain (in the area of present-day Bihār), and certain kings became increasingly powerful.
		Harsha died in 647 bc and his kingdom contracted to the west, creating a power vacuum in the east that was quickly filled by the Pala dynasty.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557562___97/India.html (14424 words)

	The Boston College Chronicle
		BC appeared on NASN six times during the regular season, and their appearance in the MPC Computers Bowl also was televised, so Cronin taped the broadcasts for BC students to watch.
		This fall, Cronin says, the BC Centre expects to have the necessary technology in place so students and alumni who are "on the road" can watch the broadcasts themselves (most of the games are shown live).
		Members of the BC community interested in retracing the steps of Ignatius Loyola and reflecting on the Jesuit ideals are invited to participate in one of two jubilee year pilgrimages planned later this year to Jesuit sites in Spain.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v14/j19/aroundcampus.html (1095 words)

	Ancient egyptian furniture events, Egyptian French Furniture, Antique French Furniture ,Egyptian Furniture , French ...
		Despite a lack of hard evidence, it was assumed that a civilization as advanced as Egypt’s—known to develop the potter’s wheel and bow drill—possessed the technical know-how and skill to have made the invention of the lathe inevitable.
		Instead, scholars now believe that the lathe was invented later, around a thousand years B.C., and that its development may have occurred simultaneously among the Etruscans in Italy, the Celts in Great Britain, and the inhabitants of the Crimea.
		The period that saw the most prolific use of turned elements in architecture was the mid-nineteenth century, particularly in the U.S. Detailing in Victorian architecture (what is sometimes called "gingerbread") was distinguished by the use of elements that were mainly cut out on a jig saw or turned on a lathe.
	www.ictfreight.com /Ancient_egyptian_furniture.htm (10528 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.
		In 1600 BC, the Balkans and the Aryans swept into Greece and India, and in 1595 BC, the Hittites swept into Mesopotamia.
		1550 BC - 1450 BC - Bull jumping, wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction, from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete, was made.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=second_millennium_BCE (1507 words)

	Railway History
		The last spike was driven by Donald Smith at Craigellachie, BC, at the western...
		A primitive railway of this type may have been used as early as the 1720s to haul quarried stone at the fortress of LOUISBOURG.
		An incline railway of cable cars, powered by a winch driven by a steam engine, was used in the 1820s to hoist stone during the building of the QUÉBEC CITADEL.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006655 (275 words)

	Georgia (country) - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		In about the 500s bc, western Georgia was colonized by Ionian Greeks; its western part was known as Colchis and the eastern region as Iberia.
		The Iranians and the Ottomans fought against one another for complete control of Georgia until the late 1500s, when the Ottomans were driven out.
		In the 1720s the Ottomans attempted another conquest, but the Iranians expelled them again.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761556415___11/Georgia_(country).html (2390 words)

	PunjabiLit: India: HISTORY India
		B The Emergence of Kingdoms and Empires By about the 7th century BC territories combined and grew, giving rise to larger kingdoms that stretched from what is now Afghanistan to what is now the state of Bihâr.
		By the 6th century BC, Indian civilization was firmly centered in the area of northeastern India that is now Bihâr, and certain kings became increasingly powerful.
		What was left after his death in Babylon in 323 BC were the Hellinistic states of what is now Afghanistan; these states later had a profound influence on the art of India.
	india.punjabilit.com /history.htm (13595 words)

	Indian History - - - Tajinder.cjb.net
		For almost 1,000 years, from around 2500 bc to around 1700 BC, a civilization flourished on the valley of the Indus River and its tributaries, extending as far to the northeast as Delhi and south to Gujarat.
		By the 6th century bc, Indian civilization was firmly centered at the eastern end of the Gangetic Plain (in the area of present-day Bihar), and certain kings became increasingly powerful.
		In 326 bc, after fighting the Persians and the tribes to the west of the Indus, Alexander the Great traveled to the Beas River, just east of what is now Lahore, Pakistan.
	www.geocities.com /bobwalia86/Indian-history.htm (13814 words)

	WikiMiki.net - 6th century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		- Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561, 559–556 and 546–528 BC.
		- Pharaoh Ramesses I of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt (reigned 1293 BC - 1291 BC).
		It is possible that Zoroaster lived sometime in the 13th century BC to the 11th century BC, prior to the settlement of Iranian tribes in the central and west of the Iranian Plateau.
	6th.century.bc.en.wikimiki.net (8770 words)

	slavery article
		Slavery is known to have existed as early as the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century BC) in China.
		The institution was little documented until the British colonials in the 19th century made it an object of study because of their desire to abolish it.
		Russia was essentially founded as a by-product of slave raiding by the Vikings passing from Scandinavia to Byzantium in the 9th century, and slavery remained a major institution there until the early 1720s, when the state converted the household slaves into house serfs in order to put them on the tax rolls.
	www.electricprint.com /edu4/classes/readings/slavery.htm (6376 words)

	History
		In the last centuries BC this region became famous among the Greeks and Romans for its spices (especially pepper).
		During the first five centuries AD, the region was a part of Tamilakam and thus was sometimes partially controlled by the eastern Pandya and Cola (Chola) dynasties, as well as by the Ceras (Cheras).
		Southern Indian politics in the 1720s emerged, therefore, as a game with many petty players and three formidable ones: the Marathas (both at Thanjavur and elsewhere), the Nizam, and the Arcot (or Karnatak) Nawab.
	binukalayil.tripod.com /history.htm (1264 words)

	Travel to Samarkand - Uzbekistan - Asia - History - WorldTravelGate.net®- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Firm Muslim control in the region was not established before the middle of the eighth century (CE), and a century after that, Samarkand came under the control first of the Samanid and then the Karakhanid states.
		Samarkand was conquered by Uzbeks in 1500 and became part of the khanate of Bukhara.
		century it had declined, and from the 1720s to the 1770s it was uninhabited.
	www.asiatravelling.net /uzbekistan/samarkand/samarkand_history.htm (642 words)

	Small Island Massive - Caribbean Entertainment, Events, Music, News, Worldwide. The Best Caribbean Web Site. Soca, and ...
		Nevertheless, French settlers from the neighboring French West Indies began establishing coffee plantations on Dominica toward the end of the century.
		France then sent a governor in the 1720s and took formal possession of the island.
		For the remainder of the 18th century, Dominica was caught up in the French and British skirmishes that marked the era, changing hands between the two powers several times.
	www.smallislandmassive.com /dominica.php (1831 words)

	Talbot Co MD History
		Unless mortality was exceptionally high in the 1720s, death claimed no more than seventy to eighty of the nonhouseholders in Bollingbroke and Thirdhaven, meaning that by 1733 one out of every two survivors had simply moved away from the county.
		A quarter of the slave owners, a quarter of the landowners, half the tenants, and almost two-thirds of the agricultural laborers and servants in the area in 1733 entered Bollingbroke or Thirdhaven after 1722 and had no direct ties to the families that had inhabited the hundreds at the beginning of the 1720s.
		While the 1720s were not depression years, neither were they overly prosperous.
	www.shirleyassociation.com /OldShirleySite/talbot_co_md_history.htm (1228 words)

	The Passage of Time
		Walnut, olivewood and marquetry veneer work became popular over the next 60 years, before mahogany began to be imported in substantial quantities in the 1720s.
		Originally longcase clocks were small with the brass dials 10 inches square, however, with the growing affluence and size of houses, by 1700 the clocks had increased in size and the dials had correspondingly grown to 12 inches square.
		Corner spandrels became increasingly elaborate, and from 1750 painted dials began to appear.
	www.stephenroseclocks.com /passagetime.htm (334 words)

	FreeMasonry, Secret and Religion
		That it chooses to bc private about its ritual and ceremonial is taken as a sign that there is indeed something to hide, that there is a wide network of secrecy ; this of an organization whose ceremonials have been regularly exposed since the 1720s !
		You shall bc Cautious in your Words and Carriage, that the most penetrating Stranger shall not be able to discover or find out what is not Proper to be intimated ; and sometimes you shall divert a discourse, and manage it prudently, for the Honour of the Worshipful Fraternity.
		To proceed from these facts to claim that Freemasonry is a religion, and a religion incompatible with other religions, or is a substitute for religion, is to make a quantum leap for which there is no justification in fact.
	www.guigue.org /masonry-religion.htm (3030 words)

	The Original Inhabitants of Avon, Ohio
		About 8000 BC, the peoples of the Archaic tradition began to occupy the land, followed by the Mound Builders.
		The Mound Builders were extinct by the time the first European explorers reached Lake Erie in the 1600's, and in their place were the Eastern Woodlands tribes, known as the Iroquoian-speaking people.
		Many of the descendents of the Erie that were adopted by the Seneca began leaving the Iroquois homeland during the 1720s and returned to Ohio.
	www.centuryinter.net /tjs11/hist/clovis.htm (1571 words)

	AD or CE ?
		Another system developed by Christians that we could have used was AM, or anno martyri, year of the martyrs, dating from the beginning of the persecutions under Diocletian but that would put us currently in the 1720s AM and suggest martyrs were more important than the birth of Christ (Anno Domini).
		For example, the founding of Rome in 753 BC gave rise to their AUC system.
		Islam bases their calendar on when Muhammad fled to Medina, accordingly Muslims are currently in the 1380s.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/mast/ADorCE.htm (278 words)

	Delaware Department of Transportation - Projects
		Between the 1720s and 1770s, Scotch-Irish and English immigrants entered the surrounding Hockessin Valley region and pursued farming and milling.
		Kaolin deposits were discovered in the 1820s, and the focus of the local economy shifted to mining.
		The prehistoric component consisted of scattered prehistoric lithic fragments, probably from the late Archaic (3000 BC - 1000 BC) or Early Woodland (1000 BC - 500 BC) Periods.
	www.deldot.net /static/projects/archaeology/archives/D128.shtml (396 words)

	About the St. Joe River: History
		Most of the big game had been driven off or killed by this time and the dwellers of these small settlements were satisfied with the small game and plentiful fish.
		The Hopewellean culture made their appearance on the scene at about 500 BC according to archaeologists.
		Many of the Miami tribe had moved to the Detroit area to escape the Fox incursions during the 1720s.
	www.fotsjr.org /river/history.htm (2140 words)

	Free Speech p. 1
		King Ashoka (273 BC - 232 BC) was considered a model monarch throughout the ancient Buddhist world for his style of compassionate government.
		In 399 BC, the Athenian philosopher Socrates was given a choice: live in exile or die by drinking hemlock.
		In 458 BC (according to tradition), Cincinnatus was plowing his fields when messengers arrived to tell him he had been named dictator to defend the city againt an uprising.
	www.runet.edu /~wkovarik/class/history/300.ideas.html (3900 words)

	The Armenian Weekly Online: August/September 2001
		In fact, the region (consisting of two provinces of Artsakh and Utik) was part of the Armenian Ervanduni kingdom since the 4th century BC, and the area was further consolidated into the Armenian kingdom by King Artashes I (189-160 BC) [1].
		In 387 AD, during the partition of Armenia by the Byzantine and Sasanian empires, the provinces of Artsakh and Utik were separated from Armenia by the Persian empire and incorporated into Caucasian Albania [2].
		In the 1720s, the Ottoman Turks invaded the Safavid beglarbegis but failed to conquer Karabagh, where the Armenian meliks (general, prince), led by David Bek, defended the region [6], until Nader Shah forced the withdrawal of the Ottoman forces from Transcaucasia in 1735 [7].
	www.hairenik.com /armenianweekly/august_september/history001.html (1615 words)

	Days 6 - 8
		The Roman Baths date somewhere around 100+ BC but there is evidence that there were shrines there earlier.
		After the Romans left around 450, various other groups came and went but the baths eventually collapsed and were buried through neglect.
		Launched by the French in the 1720s, it was captured and used by the British Navy.
	www.aghollinger.org /E-3-01.htm (539 words)

	The Republic of East Vancouver - Canada at War
		The infrastructures created by these unusual, even quirky successes eventually become economic obstacle courses and inertia-bound burdens.” Phillips’ argument is a strong and nuanced one as he draws parallels between America’s arc and the rise and fall of the Dutch and British empires that preceded it.
		From the 1590s to the 1720s, extraordinary innovation in the uses of wind, air, and whale oil created for the Dutch the world’s foremost global trading empire and largest merchant marine force.
		Holland’s cutting edge windmills and ships were the envy of the world and Amsterdam was the definitive center of international commerce and finance.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/147-repub/147_adleman.htm (1475 words)

	Price of Silver
		Studies show that in the past few hundred years, the price of silver has been declining significantly.
		Silver is a whitish, metallic, solid chemical element and has been used since ancient times (dating as far back as to 4000 BC) as forms of money, jewelry, silverware, etc. Amounts of silver are measures in troy ounces.
		From the 1720s into the 1860s, silver was a rare product throughout the United States, for it was not produced in great amounts during this time.
	hypertextbook.com /facts/2004/AbigailTang.shtml (386 words)

	Travel to Ukraine - The Official Travel Website and Guide of Ukraine - History of Ukraine
		During the Copper-Bronze age (the 4-3rd millennia BC) labor productivity grew and there were significant changes in the primitive society due to property stratification and changing ideology.
		It was manifested mostly in the Constitution by P. Orlyk, in which the preliminary experience of Ukrainian state existence had been generalized and the future ways of its development outlined.
		In the mid 1720s, P. Polubotok (about 1660-1724), who was appointed Hetman, rose for the defense of the national state system of Ukraine.
	www.traveltoukraine.org /history.htm (16459 words)

	National Trust \| Archaeology \| Stonehenge
		One lies at the east end of a 3.8km long Middle Neolithic earthwork known as the Cursus.
		It was named by its discoverer William Stukeley who in the 1720s thought it looked like a Roman chariot racing track.
		Another key earthwork is the Avenue, that appears to have functioned as a ceremonial approach to Stonehenge from the north-east where the mid-summer sun rises.
	www.nationaltrust.org.uk /main/cymraeg/lo/w-archaeology-stonehenge.htm (439 words)

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