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King David: (1030-960 BCE?) The second king of Israel and one of the greatest figures in the history of the Jews.
Hannibal: (247-183 BCE) Great military leader of the city-state of Carthage who in the Punic Wars with Rome, crossed an army (with elephants) over the Alps and invaded Rome from the north.
Cleopatra: (69-30 BCE) Queen of ancient Egypt, she was the last ruler in the dynasty founded by Ptolemy I. Jesus Christ: (1st century) Believed by Christians to be the divine Son of God.
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  Mauryan dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mauryan dynasty ruled the Mauryan empire, the first unified empire of India, from 322 BCE to 183 BCE.
Chandragupta Maurya (322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
Bindusara (297 - 272 BCE) - Chandragupta's son.
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 Mauryan dynasty - Slider
Chandragupta Maurya (322 – 298 BCE) – founder of the Mauryan empire.
Bindusara (297 – 272 BCE) – Chandragupta's son.
Brhadrata (187 – 185 BCE) – last Mauryan ruler, assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga, who ascended the throne and founded the Sunga dynasty.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sunga dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Sunga dynasty ruled the Sunga empire of central and eastern India from 185 BCE to around 73 BCE.
During the historical Sunga period (185 to 73 BCE), Buddhist activity also managed to survive somewhat in central India (Madhya Pradesh) as suggested by some architectural expansions that were done at the stupas of Sanchi and Barhut, originally started under King Ashoka.
The Sunga dynasty was established in 185 BCE, about fifty years after Ashoka's death, when the king Brihadratha, the last of the Mauryan rulers, was brutally murdered by the then commander-in-chief of the Mauryan armed forces, Pusyamitra Sunga, while he was taking the Guard of Honour of his forces.
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 BCE :: Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund
Under the BCE Plan of Arrangement, your shares have to be consolidated at a ratio of 0.915 consolidated common shares for each BCE common share.
The Effective Date of the BCE Plan of Arrangement was July 10, 2006, 5:01 PM (EST) which was the record date of the distribution by BCE of units in the Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund and the consolidation of BCE’s outstanding common shares.
The effective date of BCE Plan of Arrangement was July 10, 2006, which was the record date of the distribution by BCE of Units and the consolidation of BCE’s outstanding common shares.
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 Milton: PR Book 3 - Notes
In 166 BCE Judas Maccabaeus, a Levite born in the obscure Judaean town of Modin, began the struggle with Antiochus which ended in putting his family on the throne of David as the Asmonean Dynasty.
Shalmaneser V of 2 Kings 17: 3, King of Assyria from 726 to 721 BCE.
Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, captured Babylon in 538 BCE and returned the people of Judah to their homeland.
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The first Roman gladiatorial games were held in 246 BCE by Marcus and Decius Brutus in honor of their father.
In 183 BCE it was commonplace to hold gladiatorial games in which 60 or more battles took place.
By 65 BCE Julius Caesar had an arena constructed for the sole purpose of gladiatorial games and increased the number of gladiators that fought, increasing popularity of the games.
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 The Roman Gladiator History & Origins
The first Roman gladiatorial games were held in 246 BCE by Marcus and Decimus Brutus in honor of their father, Junius Brutus, as a munus or funeral gift for the dead.
For instance, in 183 BCE it was traditional to hold gladiatorial games in which 60 duels took place.
By 65 BCE, Julius Caesar had upped-the-ante by pitting 320 ludi, or pairs of gladiators, against one another in a wooden amphitheater constructed specifically for the event.
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 CTCWeb Glossary: H (Hadrian to hysplex)
Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias and Thessalus; Hipparchus was ostracized from Athens in 487 BCE;
Cleisthenes promulgated the law of ostracism in 510 BCE and Hipparchus was the first Athenian citizen to be ostracized under the law; Hipparchus was slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius near the temple of the daughters of Leos as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession; Hipparchus had foreseen his death in a dream.
190 - 125 BCE; Hipparchus' discovered the precession of equinoxes and explained the eastward shift of the stars, having found that while the celestial longitude of the stars increased their latitude did not change, by the forward motion of the equinoxes; Hipparchus was also the first to catalog the stars, noting their position and brightness.
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 Annotations for Miguel de Cervantes' _Don Quixote_   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Aeneas [2620]: protagonist of the Roman epic, The Aeneid, written from 29-19 BCE by Virgil and modeled on Homer's Odyssey, that portrays Aeneas's flight from Troy after its defeat, his adventures en route to Italy, and the establishment of the colony that would eventually lead to the founding of Rome.
He was born near Mantua, Italy, in 70 BCE and spent most of his life in Rome where he was considered to be the greatest poet of his time.
Tibullus [2648]: Tibullus (55-19 BCE) was a contemporary of Ovid and Horace.
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 Pontus
During the reign of the last king, Mithradates 6 Eupator (115—63 BCE), Pontus included not only large parts of Cappadocia but also much of the Bithynian coast, part of inland Paphlagonia and Lesser Armenia.
It appears likely that the state wealth and the living standards of Pontus were only average compared to other contemporary countries.
183: King Pharnaces 1 conquers Sinop and it becomes the capital of the Pontus.
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 Internet African History Sourcebook
430 BCE - 550 CE From Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus, the King of Axum, and Procopius of Caesarea.
430 BCE- 550 CE From Herodotus, Strabo, and Procopius of Caesarea.
Written by a Greek resident -lexandria in Egypt during the first century BCE, this text is one of the oldest surviving accounts of the countries on Africa's east coast.
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 Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as 2600 BCE describe gold, which king Tushratta of the Mitanni claimed was as "common as dust" in Egypt.
Gold is also mentioned several times in the Old Testament, and is included with the gifts of the magi in the first chapters of Matthew {New Testament} The south-east corner of the Black Sea was famed for its gold.
Exploitation is said to date from the time of Midas, and this gold was important in the establishment of what is probably the world's earliest coinage in Lydia between 643 and 630 BCE.
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 Archaic Italy : The Umbro-Oscans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the nineteenth century it was assumed that the cremation graves of the Forum, dating around 650 BCE, represented the Latins arising from the Villanovans, and the inhumation graves of the Forum and behind the Esquiline were those of Sabines.
By 290 BCE all of the Umbro-Oscan tribes had come under Roman hegemony.
The Cippus Abellanus recording an arbitration between the two Oscan towns of Nola and Avellino, made by Q. Fabius Labeonus in 183 BCE (Cicero De Officiis 1) was written in Oscan.
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 Roman Republic information - Search.com
In 390 BCE the Gauls from Gallia Cisalpina (modern Po Valley) under the leadership of Brennus, defeated the Roman legions and sacked Rome itself, requiring a huge ransom to avoid completely destroying the city (A Roman senator protested that the weights used to measure the ransom of gold were inaccurate.
In 149 BCE, in an attempt to pacify Carthage, Rome made a series of escalating demands, ending with the near-impossible demand that the city be demolished and re-built away from the coast, deeper into Africa.
By 133 BCE the economic imbalance was too acute to ignore, but the wealthy patricians and old families in the Senate had a vested interest in preserving the status quo.
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 Greco-Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However, contacts were kept with his Greek neighbours in the Seleucid Empire, Chandragupta received the daughter of the Seleucid king Seleucus I after a peace treaty, and several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, resided at the Mauryan court.
The coins of the Indo-Greek king Menander (reigned 160 to 135 BCE), found from Afghanistan to central India, bear the inscription "Saviour King Menander" in Greek on the front.
Intense westward physical exchange at that time along the Silk Road is confirmed by the Roman craze for silk from the 1st century BCE to the point that the Senate issued, in vain, several edicts to prohibit the wearing of silk, on economic and moral grounds.
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 Tables - Pool
BCE Pro 7ft pool table complete with all accessories.
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BCE 4ft 6 Snooker table complete with all accessories.
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 Paphlagonia.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The rulers of Pontus absorbed the greater part of Paphlagonia as during the reign of Mithradates III (220-185 BCE).
Sinope fell to Pharnaces I in 183 BCE and Paphlagonia was finally incorporated into Pontus.
After the Mithradates VI was defeated in 65 BCE, Pompey united the coastal districts of Paphiagonia with Bithynia and let the native princes rule the interior of Paphlagonia.
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 Light Reading - Services Software - Bell Canada Reports Q4 - Telecom News Wire
BCE met or exceeded its 2005 guidance for revenue growth, cost reductions, EPS, free cash flow and capital intensity.
BCE also provided details of its business plan for 2006 and announced the use of proceeds from recent asset sales and further initiatives in the company's ongoing asset review.
BCE disposed of a significant portion of its interest in CGI Group Inc. in early January 2006 and expects to dispose of its remaining interest during the course of the year.
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 CTCWeb Glossary: H (Hadrian to hysplex)
Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias and Thessalus; Hipparchus was ostracized from Athens in 487 BCE;
Cleisthenes promulgated the law of ostracism in 510 BCE and Hipparchus was the first Athenian citizen to be ostracized under the law; Hipparchus was slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius near the temple of the daughters of Leos as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession; Hipparchus had foreseen his death in a dream.
190 - 125 BCE; Hipparchus' discovered the precession of equinoxes and explained the eastward shift of the stars, having found that while the celestial longitude of the stars increased their latitude did not change, by the forward motion of the equinoxes; Hipparchus was also the first to catalog the stars, noting their position and brightness.
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 Dreros
centuries BCE; later it became a minor satellite of Knossos and continued to be occupied into the Byzantine period.
South of the agora is one of the earliest Greek temples; it dates from the Geometric period (ca 750s BCE).
In Hellenistic times, Dreros declined in importance to the extent that it was not included among the thirty Cretan cities that signed a pact with the Attalid king of Pergamum, Eumenes II, in 183 BCE.
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 HolyLandNetwork - Jerusalem - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was to be ruled by a succession of twenty kings from 979 BCE to 586 BCE.
Seventy-one years later (445 BCE) In 539 BCE, Cyrus, king of Persia issued a proclamation to rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, a total of 42,360 people returned to Jerusalem and Judah to help rebuild the Temple, not including male and female servants and the musicians.
In 40 BCE the Romans being the super power of that time dispatched an army of 30,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry to take Jerusalem.
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 Mauryan dynasty - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
232 BCE) - most famous of the Mauryan emperors; Bindusara's son.
185 BCE) - last Mauryan ruler, assassinated by his general
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 BCE 6ft Foldaway Pool Table sale at the Snooker and Pool Supermarket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BCE 6ft Foldaway Pool Table sale at the Snooker and Pool Supermarket
These 6ft Folding Leg Pool Tables are endorsed by Ronnie O'Sullivan and are perfect for the whole family.
Table dimensions are 183 (L) x 91 (W) x 79cm (H) The price shown is inclusive of VAT and
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 does tamil had a script before brahmi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Dravidian languages came to India from the west through Iran about 700 BCE with the carriers of the Megalithic culture, which is distributed all over South India including Tamilnadu and which persisted well into the first centuries of the Christian era.
The last phase of the Megalithic culture (c.300-100 BCE) does overlap the period of Old Tamil Culture (c.100 BCE - 600 CE), which in its militaristic idealization of warfare (including such elements as the horse and iron weapons) closely resembles the martial character of the Megalithic culture (in which weapons were regular grave goods).
He says that The Dravidian languages came to India from the west through Iran about 700 BCE with the carriers of the Megalithic culture, however in the context of Iron and chalcolithic cultures, he syas that the earliest Iron Age in South India, c.1100-800 BC, is essentially a continuation of the preceding Chalcolithic culture.
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 A Brief History of Spain - Carthage and Rome
228-227 BCE The city of Cathargo Nova (Cartagena) on Spain’s southeast coast was founded by Hasdrubal the son-in-law of Hamilcar and the brother-in-law of Hannibal.
206 BCE Scipio Africanus wrested Spain away from Carthage at the Battle of Ilipa and ended the Second Punic War at the Battle of Zama.but for most of the next 200 years Spain was a battleground.
The fall of the Spanish town of Numancia near Toledo was considered to be the beginning of the Roman period.
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 Crete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The state seems to have survived the catastrophic explosion of Thera, some 75 miles north of the island, circa 1628 BCE, but came under increasing stress from mainland assaults in the next two centuries.
A Dorian town of ancient Crete established in the 8th cent BCE, in the district of Rethymnon (Axos Mylopotamou).
To Rome 67 BCE (capital of Crete district in Roman times), and general Cretan sequence thereafter...
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 BCE 6ft Deluxe Snooker Table sale at the Snooker and Pool Supermarket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BCE 6ft Deluxe Snooker Table sale at the Snooker and Pool Supermarket
BCE 6ft deluxe snooker tables have a very sturdy construction and fold away legs making them an ideal choice for a home snooker table.
Table Dimensions: 183 x 91 x 79cm (H) Net Weight : 44kg
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 War Crimes - India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The early Neolithic is represented by the Mehrgarh culture of the 7th Millennium BCE, in northwest India.
Gautama Buddha (563 - 483 BCE) was the founder of Buddhism, which later spread to East and Southeast Asia.
In the 1st century BCE the Sangam poems of the Pandya kingdom were composed in Tamil.
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 Mexico, Brazil ends higher - Jan. 26, 2000
    BCE and Nortel, which account for 27 percent of the index, were both halted in late afternoon trading before the announcement.
    BCE, Canada's largest telecommunications group, said it was spinning off a 37 percent stake of Nortel to shareholders and would retain a 2 percent stake in the big telecom equipment maker.
BCE shareholders will retain their BCE shares and receive about 0.78 of a common share, subject to adjustment, in the new company for each BCE common share held.
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