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  History of Pakistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
He was assassinated in 185 BCE by his Brahmin general Pusyamitra Sunga, who made himself the ruler and established the Sunga dynasty.
Menander I was one of the Greek kings of the Indo-Greek Kingdom in ancient Pakistan from 155 to 130 BCE.
The Indo-Greeks suffered a new attack from the descendants of Eucratides around 125 BCE, as the Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles, son of Eucratides, was fleeing from the invasion of the Yuezhi in Bactria and trying to relocate in Gandhara.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - History of India
Around the 5th century BCE, the northern Indian subcontinent was invaded by the Achaemenid Empire and, by the late 4th century BCE, the Greeks of Alexander's army.
Gautama Buddha in the 6th or 5th century BCE was the founder of Buddhism, which later spread to East Asia and South-East Asia, while Mahavira founded Jainism.
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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 Greek Conquests in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 327 BCE Alexander the Great began his foray into Punjab.
The founder of the Indo-Greek Kingdom Demetrius I (205-171 BCE), wearing the scalp of an elephant, symbol of his conquests in India.
In 180 BCE, the Indo-Greeks, invaded parts of northwest and northern India.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_Conquests_in_India   (875 words)

  
 romhist.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa.
The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius) began a reform movement to redistribute senatorial lands to the landless poor; Tiberius was slain in 133 BCE.
In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.25
Berneder agrees with the early third century BCE date of the introduction but suggests that some of the details in the sources are inventions of later annalists.
He suggests the year BCE 133 could have been responsible for the legend of the cult reception and establishes a link between this year and the year BCE 205/204.
The cult of the Magna Mater was brought from Pergamon in BCE 205/204.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-25.html   (2660 words)

  
 Boii - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sometime between 205 and 184 BCE, T. Maccius Plautus refers to the Boii in his work, Captivi.
Sometime between 100 and 44 BCE, Caius Julius Caesar refers to the Boii in his work, De Bello Gallico.
Sometime between 59 BCE and 17 CE, in volume 21 of his work The History of Rome, Titus Livius (Livy) says that it was a Boii that offered to show Hannibal the way across the Alps.
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 Chapter Four   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
By 173 BCE, mimes are the mainstay of the festival Floria.
Accius, Lucius* 170-c.84 BCE Writer of tragedies and reputed to be one of the foremost playwrights.
In 13 BCE the theatre of Balbus* and in 11 BCE the theatre of Marcellus* are built.
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 Heavenly Minds | Main / HellenisticTimeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 277 BCE, Antigonos Gonatas crushed a force of Galatians, contributing to their withdrawal from Macedonia, with the result that he was acclaimed King of the Macedonians.
At Beneventum in 275 BCE, Phyrros was defeated by the Consul Manius Curius.
However, in 253 BCE, the Ptolemies succeeded in a diplomatic coup, with a seemingly benign peace settlement and the marriage of Berenike, daughter of Ptolemy II to Antiochus II.
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 Esoteric
In Alexandria Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-205 BCE) was a devotee of Dionysus.
In Rome Emperor Augustus (reigned 44 BCE to 14 CE) was an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries and a devotee of Apollo.
Under his rule, in 28 BCE, a splendid temple of Apollo was built on the Palatine Hill.
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The BCE will be corrected by the student in class and will be submitted for credit at the end of the class period on the day the assignment is due.
Please note that the number of the each BCE corresponds to the number of the grammar section in which the grammar point involved is explained.
Tarea para el 7: Complete L.6 BCE sections 1 and 2 (132-133) and be prepared to correct them in class.
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 filmhist.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Traditional date of the founding of Rome was April 21 753 BCE; there were two mythological traditions (Romulus and Remus: The twins were members of the royal house of Alba Longa— sons of Rhea Silvia, daughter of Numitor deposed by Amulu/ Aeneas: the Trojan hero who escaped to Italy to found Rome (his destiny).
Lucius Junius Brutus (Superbus' nephew) expelled the kings and liberated Rome in 509 BCE and became her first consul (along with L. Tarquinius Collatinus, cousin to Superbus).
After 510 BCE Rome was ruled by an oligarchy and became a Republic.
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 Pergamum Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Due to a childhood injury, having have lost his manly powers, Philetaerus never got married and had no son, so decided to adopt his nephew Eumenes as his heir to the throne of his small kingdom that he was just building.
Although Eumenes I (263-241 BCE), has never used the title of King, he is regarded as the first king in the line of Attalid dynasty who ruled the Pergamum Kingdom for five generations.
Eumenes in alliance with Romans swept the Seleucid army at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BCE, and following the peace treaty of Apameia in 188 BCE, Pergamum was given a large portion of the lands ruled by the Seleucids earlier.
www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/pergamum_kingdom.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy IV Philopater
The pharaoh armed native Egyptian troops to successfully attack Syria --although greek historians say that 70,000 people died in the battle of Rafia in 217 BCE.
On the advice of a courtier, Sosibios, Ptolemy IV had is mother, brother, and uncle killed, most likely to try to retain control of the government.
When Ptolemy IV died in 204 BCE, two of his ministers had his wife and sister Arsinoe killed.
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 BCE 619   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BCE 616 (Internship in Counseling) and permission of faculty/advisor.
Students are required to serve as the instructor/teacher for two (2) academic source sessions offered within the BCE curriculum during their term of enrollment (i.e., BCE 515 priority and/or 512).
BCE 515/516 Schedule: Your role is in ().
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 A CHRONOGRAPHY OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICT
771 BCE The Chou dynasty in China is forced to abandon its western capital in Hao, of the Wei River Valley and move its seat eastward to Loyang due to the threat of a barbarian invasion.
400-300 BCE The Celts settle in the Danube-Sava basin.
312 BCE Seleucus Nicator, one of Ptolemy's generals in Syria, establishes a kingdom ranging from Syria in the west to India in the east (approximately the scope of the ancient Assyrian or Babylonian Empires) and founds the Seleucid empire.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This final provocation led to the ultimately successful Jewish revolt under the Hasmonean family, led by Mattathias and his five sons, one of whom, Judas, was known as Maccabeus, "the hammer." The revolt and the subsequent establishment of a Jewish government (which took more than twenty years to accomplish) are therefore referred to as Maccabean.
It is a religious novel, written in Greek by an Alexandrian Jew sometime between 100 BCE and 70 CE.
180 BCE, shows particularly close connections with the style and content of the book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible, from which it is a natural development.
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 Dutte Gamini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 161 BCE the childless seventy-four year old king was called for a one-to-one battle by the young and strong native prince Gamini, and was defeated.
In 270 B.C.E., the queen of Devanampiya Tissa (Tittan in Tamil is transliterated into Tissa in Pali) tried to poison her brother-in-law, the sub-king Mahanaga, who thereupon fled towards Ruhuna.
Duttha Gamani (161 B.C.E.), having disposed of reinforcements which arrived from India under his nephew, was now sole monarch of Lanka, and kept the feast of his coronation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dutte_Gamini   (1405 words)

  
 Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy V Epiphanes
Antiochus defeated Ptolemy in the Battle of Panion 200 BCE and peace was cemented by the marriage of the young Egyptian king to Cleopatra I, daughter of Antiochus.
He died at the young age of 28 during a battle in the delta -- although there were rumors that he had been poisoned.
Ptolemy V is uniquely associated with the famed Rosetta Stone, which allowed the world to finally understand the hieroglyphic language -- he was crowned in 196 BCE in Memphis with traditional egyptian rites and the decrees issues for the occasion were copied and sent out.
www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/05ptp5.html   (310 words)

  
 EPHESUS
The Persians were eventually defeated in the region in 466 BCE, when Ephesus became a tributary of Athens.
After the tragic fire in 356 BCE (tradition holds that Herostratos set that temple aflame to make a name for himself), the city took a long time to recover.
They were defeated by the Romans at Magnesia (189 BCE) and Ephesus was turned over to control by Pergamum, until in 133 BCE Ephesus came under direct Roman rule.
www.enjoyturkey.com /Tours/Interest/Biblicals/ephesus.htm   (1295 words)

  
 PESHAWAR STAMP SOCIETY
His grandson Ashoka is known as to have been one of the greatest benefactors and major proselytizers of Buddhism which spread throughout the region.
One of the prominent Greco-Bactrian kings was Menander, who ruled from 155 to 130 BCE and is believed to have been a convert to Buddhism.
His territories covered the eastern dominions of the divided Greek empire of Bactria (from the areas of the Panjshir and Kapisa, now in Afghanistan) and extended to the Pakistani province of Punjab with diffuse tributaries to the south and east, possibly even as far as Mathura in modern India.
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 INDO-EUROPEAN EXPANSIONS AND GLOBALIZATION OF ENGLISH
Evidence suggests that in the first millennium BCE Balts occupied the area west of the Vistula’s mouth east to Moscow and the upper Volga, and south to Kiev (Baldi, 1983; Mallory, 1989).
From about 500 BCE to the end of the medieval period, Gills and Frank have noted the appearance of 400 to 500-year-long economic cycles with up and down phases lasting approximately 200 years each.
Their New Kingdom that arose about 1430 BCE and dominated the Middle East for some 150 years established the supremacy of Hittite in the region.
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 Basic facts about ancient Egypt.
The inscriptions on it were the benefactions conferred by Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205 - 180 BCE) were written by the priests of Memphis.
Origin: 1650 BCE but it was written very much earlier.
A remarkable number of papyri, some dating from 2,500 BCE, have been found, protected from decompostion by the dry heat of the region though they often lay unprotected in desert sands or burial tombs.
www.math.tamu.edu /~don.allen/history/egypt/node1.html   (635 words)

  
 Macedonian Rulers
This space/timeline is a schematic diagram of the tenure of major protagonists in the power struggles that shaped the history of Hellenism in the eastern Mediterranean basin during the last 3 centuries BCE.
It begins with the election of Philip II as leader (hegemon) of the league of Greek city states and ends with the death of Cleopatra VII in Egypt.
Hellenistic World After the Breakup of Alexander's Empire 310 BCE - map posted for Barry D. Smith's course on The Intertestamental Period (Atlantic Baptist U).
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 Religion 205: Emergence of Judaism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thus, the focus of this course spans more than a millenium -- from the sixth century BCE to the end of the sixth century CE.
Our focus will be further sharpened by concentrating on the religious and social develop-ments during this period.
There is no requirement to take both courses and students may take 206 or 218 without taking 205, or vice versa.
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 History of the Hellenistic and Roman World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Scipio's tact was wise, and left his family's traditional enemies; the Fabii and Claudii with no opening to discredit him.
The ensuing Consular elections for the year 205 saw his strategy reap its gains: not only was Publius Cornelius Scipio voted Consul by every one of the centuries, but his political ally, Publius Licinius Crassus<, was elected as the second Consul.
This was a huge advantage for Scipio as it was now common knowledge that Scipio intended to finish the war and invade Africa and, due to his religious duties, Crassus was unable to leave Italy.
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 The Rise of Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 509 BCE, a group of Roman nobles, who were fed up with their Etruscan king, Tarquin, drove him from Rome and into early retirement.
It was a commercial city surrounded by rich farmland, a city with a constitution and ruled by an oligarchy of men of wealth.
In 205 BCE, with great solemnity and pomp, the stone was transported from Pessinus (a town in central Asia Minor) to Rome, and it was installed in a temple on Rome's Palatine hill.
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 CTCWeb Glossary: S sacerdos to synoris)
- a Mediterranean seaport town in Spain on the Palencia River, in Valencia; an ally of Rome in 221 BCE against Hannibal and the Carthaginians; it was besieged by Hannibal from 219-218 BCE, then captured; in 214, the Romans recaptured Saguntum and made it a Roman municipium.
86 BCE, died 35 BCE; wrote monographs on the Catilinarian conspiricy, Bellum Catilinae, and the Jugurthine War, Bellum Iugurthinum, in addition to a lost Histories.
1050 BCE; by the 9th century BCE defensive walls were present and the city possessed the earliest known Greek religious shrine in Anatolia, the Archaic temple of
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 Ptolemy 4 Philopator
(244-205 BCE) King of Egypt 221-205 BCE, and part of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
His rule was characterized by military defeats in Syria, as well as upheavals in Egypt.
Ptolemy is infamous of having his own mother and relatives killed, after that he had been manipulated by his advisors.
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 Candid Thoughts on ‘Black July 1983’- Revisiting Mervyn de Silva's Writing of January 1984 - Sachi Sri ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
205-161 BCE: Tamil king Ellalan [pronounced as Elara, by Sinhalese] of Chola origin, ruled the island for 44 years from Anuradhapura.
In 161 BCE, King Ellalan - then probably in his sixties - was killed in a duel by a youthful Sinhalese prince Dutugemunu from the southern Ruhunu region of the island, then probably aged in mid twenties.
AD 459-478: First version of Mahavamsa chronicle, written by Buddhist priest Mahanama, an uncle of king Dhatusena [reigned between AD 455-473], who was a victim of notorious parricide by his elder son Kasyappa in the year 473.
www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/july83.htm   (2811 words)

  
 CAMWS 2003: Tadeusz Mazurek
Granted these predictions (which do not rise to the level of prophecies) constitute a minority of all Sibylline proclamations, yet their existence is important per se in appreciating the function of the books in the Roman state religion; it suggests that some 5
Here the evidence centers on the priestly college’s failure to recommend a supplication for 23 years (216-193 BCE), despite the fact that the decemviri prescribed four such supplications immediately prior to this period (218-17 BCE).
This hiatus is especially noteworthy because right after 193 BCE, the college resumes its predilection for expiatory supplications, recommending 16 during the next 26 years.
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