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	Encyclopedia: Greco-Bactrian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Approximate extent of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom circa 220 BCE.
		It is not clear whether the incursion of the Yueh-Chih consisted in an invasion of the Greco-Bactrian territory, or possibly a resettlement in front of the Xiongnu attacks from the north, reminescent of the Roman practice of the foederati.
		Following the loss of Bactria to Eucratides in 170 BCE, the House of Euthydemus was left with its territories in India, where they continued to rule on the totality, and from 125 BCE the Eastern part, of the Indo-Greek Kingdom until the end of the 1st century BCE.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greco_Bactrian (1360 words)

	Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is a possibility that the 210 BCE Terracotta Army of the first great Chinese emperor Qin, with its colored life-size realism, may have been inspired by Greek statuary.
		When Zhang Qian visited the Yueh-Chih in 126 BCE, trying to obtain their alliance to fight the Xiong-Nu, he described them as living peacefully and content, unwilling to be involved in such a fight.
		Around 125 BCE the king Heliocles abandoned Bactria and moved his capital to the Kabul valley, from where he ruled his Indian holdings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greco-Bactrian (1739 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bactria
		Apollodorus of Artemita was a Greek writer of the 1st century BCE.
		The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi (who later became known as Kushans), who had conquered Daxia (= Bactria) by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian, c.
		Zhang Qian (Chinese:å¼µé¨«; died 113 BCE) was a Chinese explorer and imperial envoy in the 2nd century BCE, during the time of the Han Dynasty.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bactria (2635 words)

	Junk (sailing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Junks were originally developed during the Han Dynasty (220 BCE-200 CE) and further evolved to represent one of the most successful ship types in history.
		Junks are efficient and sturdy ships that were traveling across oceans as early as the 2nd century CE.
		Junks were originally developed during the Han Dynasty (220 BCE-200 CE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junk_%28sailing%29 (1583 words)

	Anatolia: Iassos, Knidos and the Hellespont: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Knidos- founded around 400 BCE by Dorian colonists, and part of a 6 city confederation of Dorian cities, along with Halicarnassos, Kos, Lindos, Kamiros and Ialysos.The Temple of Apollo at Knidos was the central meeting place for the confederation.
		Nyssa (modern Sultanhisar)- Traditionally founded by Peloponnesians, the city was probably rebuilt by Antiochus I Soter, son of Seleucus, in the first half of the third century BCE It flourished from the 1st century BCE until the 3rd century c.e.
		Alinda- (Mugla)- first settled around 1200 BCE Ada the daughter of Hecatomnus of Halicarnassus, after she was expelled by her brother Pixodaros (344 BCE), made Alinda her capital and ruled there as Queen.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/anatolia/politics04.html (1275 words)

	I, Daniel by Robert Riggs
		In 301 BCE, Seleucus joined a successful confederacy against Antigonus I, the newest King of Macedonia, and as a reward, Seleucus was granted a large part of Asia Minor and the whole of Syria.
		Futhermore, the line of commercial traffic that went along the Nile to and from Alexandria, had a rival in the line of trade that went from the Persian Gulf across Arabia to Gaza, and it was to the advantage of the King of the South to control both.
		In 242-241 BCE, Seleucus was able to deliver Damascus and Orthosia on the Phoenician coast, that were being besieged by the Egyptians.
	www.bci.org /prophecy-fulfilled/id2.htm (11494 words)

	Chapter Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
	hometown.aol.com /clasz/chap4.html (14345 words)

	LUDI: Roman Festivals
		The festival dates from the 6th C BCE, In 364, Etruscan dancers were added, leading to speculation in re: Fescennine verses… Comedy and tragedy were probably performed from time to time after this and became a regular feature of the ludi Romani in 240 BCE.
		Ludi proliferated from the 3rd C BCE when they were given official sanction and financial support.
		This practice became especially important when bonuses began to be paid when public response became notably vocal, prompting magistrates to pay claques to cheer wildly and to bribe public officials to notice the wild cheering.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /ludi.htm (429 words)

	Persia: Parthians and Hellenes: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		246 BCE- Antiochus II dies at Ephesus (summer) and is succeeded by Seleucus II Calinicus (246-226/5), but in Asia Minor by Antiochus Hierax (246-226).
		In 92 BCE?, Mithridates II was able to conclude the first treaty between Parthia and Rome establishing the Euphrates as a mutual boundary.
		20 BCE - Standards captured from the Romans at the defeat of Crassus in 53 BCE., from L. Decidius Saxa in Syria in 40 B.C., and from Antony in 36 BCE.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/persia/politics01.html (1252 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		There are fragments of a number of these plays, including some that occur as quotations in the satirical comedies of Aristophanes (for example, The Frogs and The Poet and the Women), but only a tiny handful of complete examples survives, accidentally preserved for posterity because of their popularity – perhaps suitability – as school texts.
		The works of Euripides (active 438-406 BCE), however, indicate the range of plays that might be considered “tragic”.
		All of the known examples of his plays occupied tragedy slots at the festival with the exception of the Cyclops, the only complete surviving satyr play by any writer, and Alcestis, a play with a serious tragic situation but a happy ending engineered by the demi-God Hercules, which was also given in the satyr slot.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1132 (2264 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: A brief chinese chronology
		The little Chinese cities of remote antiquity were only enclaves in the midst of vast extents of uncultivated land and did not extend beyond the limits of the lower basin of the Yellow River.
		The colonization of the southern provinces was a long-lasting affair which began at the end of the third century BCE.
		The warlike, China of the sixth to eighth centuries turned towards central Asia and succeeded in extending its authority to the regions beyond the Pamirs, while China of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was a maritime, trading land threatened by the advance of the empires of the steppe.
	acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall/texts/chron.html (2132 words)

	seleucidas, antioco, berenice,alexander the great,
		Antiochus IV, 175-164 BCE, Tetradrachm, AR, 16.9g, 1 1/16" dia., AR, Ake mint, Judas Maccabee defeated Antiochus IV and cleansed temple.
		Following an abortive attack on Ptolemaic Egypt he lost the northern part of his Kingdom to the usurper Alexander Zebina, and in 125 BCE was murdered in Tyre.
		Was driven from Antioch in by cousin Antiochus X in 94 BCE.
	www.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/ALEJANDRO%20MAGNO/alejandro_DINASTIA_SELEUCIDAS.htm (2150 words)

	Rome: Total War @ The Wargamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 238 BCE a Roman delegation negotiated an accord with Hasdrubal that the Carthaginians would not advance past the River Ebro in Spain, essentially setting the boundaries of their respective spheres of influence.
		A dispute then arose between Saguntum and a Spanish tribe allied with Hannibal about 220 BCE A Roman delegation visited first Hannibal and then Carthage to remind them of the Ebro agreement as well as to warn them that Saguntum was under their protection.
		The initial Roman plan for the campaign of 218 BCE was for direct assaults on Spain and North Africa by consular armies while two additional legions and an allied contingent campaigned in Cisalpine Gaul.
	totalwar.wargamer.com /punic2.html (816 words)

	Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Image:Greco-Bactrian_kingdom.jpgthumb300pxApproximate extent of the '''Greco-Bactrian kingdom''' circa [[220 BCE.]]
		In the west, some time after 206 BCE, Euthydemus crossed the Arius river (modern Hari Rud) and took control of the Parthian satrapies of Astauene and Apavarktikene and possibly parts of Parthyene.
		Following the loss of Bactria to Eucratides in 170 BCE, the House of Euthydemus was left with its territories in India, where they continued to rule on the totality, and from 125 BCE the Eastern part, of the Indo-Greek Kingdom until the beginning of the 1st century CE.
	goc.subdomain.de /Greco-Bactrian_Kingdom (1733 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		However, it is not the relics that are being worshipped; rather, the stupa serves as a focal point for the meditation ritual of circumambulation, and a reminder of the Buddha's message.
		The style of the carving illustrating the Great Stupa is consistent with that practiced during the Satavahana dynasty (220 BCE-236 CE), the last group to provide royal patronage at Amarvati.
		For example, a set of sculpted lions seated on pillars from Amaravati, very similar to those guarding the entrance to the stupa on this relief, may also be found in the collection of the British Museum.
	www.depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/exhibit/religion/buddhism/i_and_i/ps245436.html (485 words)

	Xena's Travels in THE DEBT
		There were, in fact, a great number of walls in China, built by warring kingdoms from 450 BCE to 220 BCE, frequently pulled down by conquerors or incorporated in their own defensive walls.
		The work was carried out around 220 BCE under the command of General Meng Tian (sound familiar?), and it stretched from Lanchow to the sea, enclosing the great loop of the Yellow (Huang) River.
		The Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage began in 264 BCE, and Carthage's power and influence were eroded by a series of defeats until the city was razed to the ground by the Romans in 146 BCE.
	www.whoosh.org /issue29/rodliffe1.html (2492 words)

	decline.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Beginning with the sixth century BCE, several empires founded on the principles and practices of Zarathushtra's teachings would flourish and decay.
		The years 549-330 BCE saw the growth and decline of the first Zoroastrian Achemenid empire.
		Also part of the Avestan peoples were the Athravans, or the eastern Iranian Zoroastrian priesthood, as well as the better known Magi, who formed the priesthood's western branch.
	camel2.conncoll.edu /academics/departments/relstudies/290/iranian/zoroastrianism/decline.html (1595 words)

	Xunzi (Hsün Tzu) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		He was born in the state of Zhao in north-central China around 310 BCE.
		As a young man he studied in the state of Qi in the northeast, which had the greatest concentration of philosophers of the age.
		His last post ended when his patron was assassinated in 238 BCE, ending his chances to put his theories of government into practice.
	www.iep.utm.edu /x/xunzi.htm (5952 words)

	Mencius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Better known in China as “Master Meng” (Chinese: Mengzi), Mencius was a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose importance in the Confucian tradition is second only to that of Confucius himself.
		145-90 BCE), which states that he was a native of Zou (Tsou), a small state near Confucius' home state of Lu in the Shandong peninsula of northeastern China.
		Mencius was born in a period of Chinese history known as the Warring States (403-221 BCE), during which various states competed violently against one another for mastery of all of China, which once was unified under the Zhou dynasty until its collapse, for all intents and purposes, in 771 BCE.
	www.iep.utm.edu /m/mencius.htm (4812 words)

	Difference- Classical
		Children were particularly likely to be deprived of adequate nourishment when food was in short supply, and the effects of malnutrition would have affected them physically for the rest of their lives.
		Winzer notes that by the time of the Empire c.30 BCE unwanted infants could now be placed at the base of the Columna Lactaria, and the state provided wet-nurses to feed and save them.
		Winzer notes that in the 2nd Century CE the paterfamilias was deprived of his right to expose children, and by the 3rd century CE child exposure was the equivalent of murder, although it was not until the 4th century CE that male parents lost all power of death over members of the family.
	www.diligio.com /What%20is%20SRV/SRV%20Explication/Difference/Difference-%20Classical.htm (19047 words)

	* The House of Ptolemy: Ptolemaic Egypt and its Culture *
		--- Sotades the Obscene of Maronea (275 BCE) - Inventor of the Palindrome
		This image of a Ptolemaic (300-100 BCE) limestone relief represents one of the great queens of the Ptolemaic Period, Arsinoe II, who was a strong-minded and influential ruler with her brother/husband Ptolemy II.
		In the fourth century BCE the most important locus of medical thought and practice was not Cos the island home of Hippocrates, but the great center of Greek learning at Alexandria.
	www.houseofptolemy.org /housecul.htm (4672 words)

	November (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Clodius attacks the houses of Marcus Cicero and his brother Quintus on the Palatine, 56 BCE.
		H. Clodius attacks house of Milo, 56 BCE.
		Persecution of the Pagans: nocturnal rites banned, beginning with the sacrifices to Diana held on this night, 353 BCE.
	www.religioromana.net /calendar/calendar-november.htm (868 words)

	Re: [HTML] Jesus' Genealogy: Religious Spam by "Kenadian" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		And under subsequent decree from King Artaxerxes in = 72J2W1D =3D 457 BCE [#9, #31, #51, #61 - Virtuosity at Using 'Beneath'/ = The Virtue of Humility/ #59, #23] following the Purim (ie.
		Thereby allowing the restoration of the Judicatory and Adminstrative = Process in accordance with the Laws of Moses: ('I will speak to them and = send them a precept / commandment and they will understand all that they = have abandoned, they and their fathers').
		400 BCE in Ezra = 2:1-2; Nehemiah 7:6-7; 450 BCE in Esther 9:6-15].
	www.talkaboutreligion.com /group/aus.religion.judaism/messages/8137.html (2443 words)

	Emperor Heaven :: A Xia's Diary - Singleplayer Campaign
		Mission 6 - 'To Serve a Tyrant' - 11 years, from 220 BCE to the end of 210 BCE.
		Mission 7 - 'The Fall of Qin' - 4 years, from 209 BCE to the end of 206 BCE.
		Mission 8 - 'Duel of the Xia' - 4 years, from 205 BCE to the end of 202 BCE.
	emperor.heavengames.com /downloads/showfile.php?fileid=301 (1612 words)

	The Emperor salutes you sneaky folks who found this page. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Four chariots comprise a full company, and each requires one load of weapons and two loads of wood to build.
		Being horse-drawn, a chariot is much faster than foot infantry, and, being bow-armed, a chariot can inflict damage from a distance.
		The Zhou Dynasty (1045 - 220 BCE), part of which was also known as the Warring States period, was a time of frequent conflict, and also many military advances.
	emperor.breakawaygames.com /design_military.html (1352 words)

	The Han Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		By the second millennium nephrite jade was being traded from mines in the region of Yarkand and Khotan to China.
		Soon after the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE, regular communications and trade between China, Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Africa and Europe suddenly blossomed to a scale never seen before.
		Taizong [179-157 BCE] was forced to submit to the humiliation of presenting tribute.
	depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/hou_han_shu.html (6371 words)

	From David and the Exilarchs to the House of Windsor (No. 67)
		This marked the establishment of a new second dynasty of Exilarchs as none of the ancestors of Ahija(h) between the Exilarch Akkub in 220 BCE and he were Exilarchs.
		The first dynasty of Exilarchs was interrupted in 13-9 BCE to about 30-33 CE, coincidental with the crucifixion of Christ in 30 CE.
		515 BCE and was recalled and imprisoned 513 BCE and executed 510 BCE.
	www.ccg.org /english/s/P067.html (1732 words)

	American Association of Exporters and Importers
		Construction began in 312 BCE and by the time it was completed, it ran for 362 miles from Rome to Capua (Campania) and the port city of Brindisi.
		It was the first Roman paved road, made of stone blocks cemented with a lime mortar and overlaid with blocks of smooth lava.
		He then planned to invade Italy from the North and attempted to cross the Alps in 218 BCE with his elephants.
	www.aaei.org /tier.asp?bid=64 (3743 words)

	Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJTs)
		Left to right, TO-92 case good for approximately.5 watts; TO-220 case, usually rated for 100-125 watts; TO-218 case, generally good for 150 watts.
		They are shown at 4 times actual size.
		On these transistors, the terminals are: TO-92 EBC; TO-220 BCE; TO-218 BCE.
	www.angelfire.com /ab6/userper/bjt.htm (965 words)

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