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	History of Iran: Parthian Empire
		After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
		In July 141 BCE Mithradates captured the Seleucid capital Seleucia, and in October he reached Uruk in the south of Babylonia.
		In 69 BCE, the two enemies concluded a treaty: the Euphrates would be the border.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/parthians/parthians.php (1968 words)

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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.
	www.list.org /~mdoyle/people.html (1543 words)

	The Original Eve
		1570-1546 BCE Reign of Ahmose I in Egypt; Kushite campaigns and the appointment of an Egyptian as the "King’s Son of Kush".
		1529 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thermuthis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
		945-715 BCE Reign of Dynasty XXII; Kushites and Canaanites (Hittites and Phoenicians) establish a large number of ports on the North African shore, and on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and western Sicily and on the shore of Spain.
	www.stewartsynopsis.com /original_eve.htm (3975 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		The remainder of the sea is trapped ni the depression, by basalt volcanic dykes, and gradually the water evaporates leaving massive salt flats, salt lakes and salt mines.
		1518 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thutmosis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
		327 BCE At Makaranda in Samarkand, Persia, during a drunken rage Alexander murders Cleitus Niger, the African King of Bactria, foster brother of Alexander and commander of the "royal squadron" of the Greek/Macedonian armies under Phillip and Alexander.
	www.africanfront.com /calendar.php (7778 words)

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		550 BCE - 50 BCE Messapic and Venetic inscriptions
		And in 187 BCE, the last heir of the Asokan dynasty was killed by one of his commanders.
		Weakened by its isolation, Galatia became in the 2nd century BCE, the protectorate of the Pontic kingdom, and by the next century, became a province of Rome.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/boutios/timeline.html (3530 words)

	Yang Xiong [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Yang Xiong (53 B.C.E. Yang Xiong (Yang Hsiung) was a prolific yet reclusive court poet whose writings and tragic life spanned the collapse of the Former Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) and the brief and catastrophic usurpation of the throne by the Imperial Regent Wang Mang (9-23 CE).
		Yang Xiong was born in 53 BCE in the western city of Chengdu in the province of Shu.
		Between the years 14-10 BCE, Yang Xiong submitted several poetic pieces commemorating imperial sacrifices and hunts, and finally in 10 BCE he was appointed to the humble office of “Gentleman in Attendance” and “Servitor at the Yellow Gate,” where he would remain until his final days.
	www.iep.utm.edu /y/yangxion.htm (4927 words)

	\|\|The Cradle of Nubian Civilisation\|\|
		1570-1546 BCE Reign of Ahmose I in Egypt; Nubian campaigns and the appointment of an Egyptian as the "Viceroy of Kush".
		671 BCE Esarhaddon speeds across Sinai with his camel cavalry and meets the Nubian and Egyptian forces of Taharka in the eastern Delta; Taharka is defeated and withdraws from Tanis and retreats to Memphis citadel.
		661 BCE Tanutamun defeated in Memphis and driven from Thebes that is sacked by Ashurbanipal.
	www.thenubian.net /chronology.php (3611 words)

	Aramaic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the language grew in importance, it came to be spoken throughout the Mediterranean coastal area of the Levant, and spread east of the Tigris.
		For centuries after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire (in 331 BCE), Imperial Aramaic as prescribed by Darius, or near enough for it to be recognisable, remained the dominant language of the region.
		Palmyrene Aramaic is the dialect that was in use in the city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert from 44 BCE to 274 CE.
	aramaic-language.iqnaut.net (5375 words)

	Cappuccino \| Persian Online Magazine \| The Successors of Alexander and the Seleucids
		In 305-204 BCE, Seleukos undertook a campaign in the east to consolidate his power and managed to subdue Zrankia, Bactria, and the rest of the east, an indicator that Alexander probably never managed this.
		From 294-286 BCE, much of Seleukos’ time was spent in fighting with Demetrios, son of Antigonos who had escaped the disaster at Ipsos.
		Further to the west, in 247 BCE the ruling classes in the satrapy of Parthia chose a tribal ruler of the Parni as their new king.
	www.cappuccinomag.com /iranologyenglish/001729.shtml (1981 words)

	Daniel 11:1-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And the king of the south shall be strong, — Ptolemy I Soter, son of Lagus, declared himself king of Egypt in 306 BCE and thus founded the Ptolemaic line of rulers in the south.
		With the death of Antigonus at the battle for Ipsus in 301 BCE Seleucus had secured for himself what was previously all of Antigonus' empire.
		The second event is the desolation of the city of Jerusalem in 70 CE and is described in Daniel 7:21; 9:27; 12:7, which was preceded by the events of 66 CE when the Roman armies surrounded the city.
	members.aol.com /gparrishjr/dn11ss.html (8045 words)

	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.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/glossary/glossaryh.html (1493 words)

	The Modern Magazine for Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community
		In 247 BCE, Arsaces, a Parni leader, rised up against the Greek rule, advanced eastward and established the Parthian Empire.
		In 92 BCE, Mithridates II struck the first treaty between Parthia and Rome wehre Euphrates was established as a mutual boundary.
		In 53 BCE, the Parthians won against the Romans and beheaded Crassus, the Roman Emperor.
	www.persianmirror.com /culture/history/sassanid.cfm (766 words)

	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.
	www.humanitas-international.org /perezites/archive/timeline.htm (19687 words)

	Timeline of Buddhist History
		590-470 BCE: Mahavir - Founder of Jainism, contemporary of the Buddha.
		589-525 BCE: Enlightenment of the Buddha in Bodhgaya (at age 36).
		247 BCE : 3rd Buddhist Council, convened by King Asoka at Pataliputra (Patan?) India.
	www.geocities.com /buddhism2001/timeline.html (1600 words)

	UFO Area SECRETS OF THE EMPEROR'S TOMB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In May of 246 BCE the Qin King Yi Ren -Zhuangxiangwang died, and Ying Zheng (better known as Emperor Shihuangdi) became the ruler of Qin, but in reality, Lü Buwei and his former concubine, now empress dowager, controlled the country.
		In 202 BCE, after a four-year war between the rebel armies, the Han dynasty was established, and relative peace returned to the weary country.
		The author's main emphasis was on the Orient, and dragons, sea serpents, the Chinese phoenix that populated ancient folklore of China.
	www.ufoarea.com /stonehill_emperor.html (4465 words)

	Sacral Kingship in Sasanian Iran (Part I) - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		The conquest of the Achaemenian empire by Alexander II of the Macedonia (356-322 BCE) in 330 BCE, with the death of the last Achaemenian emperor Darius III Codomannus (ruled 336-330 BCE), resulted in the influx of Hellenistic ideas of kingship into Iran under Alexander's successors: the Seleucids.
		The hellenization of Iran continued under the Iranian Arsacid (Parthian) rulers (247 BCE-CE 224).5 The belief that the ruler was appointed by the gods, and represented these gods on earth, was reinforced under Arsacid dynasty.
		In CE 224 Emperor Ardeshir the son of Papak, scion of the ruling house of Persis, after subduing local lords and defeating the Arsacid king of kings Artabanus V, ascended the throne of Iran.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/Sasanian/sacral_kingship.htm (8781 words)

	ARH 382 - ID List 1
		The North Central Asian nomadic group that migrated to Bactria in the late 2nd c.
		BCE and eventually invaded north India as the Kushans.
		He explored Central Asia from 139 to 126 BCE.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~arthist/jacobson/arh382/list01.htm (374 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Persia
		The Persian State: Parthia and Arcsacids (247 BCE-226 CE)
		Focused on a later period of Persian history than covered in this class, but still a good entrance to all things Persian.
		Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai and the Defeat of the Persians under Cyrus [At this Site]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook05.html (419 words)

	Chapter 1, Manuscripts
		Because it was a Greek city and because Greek was the ligua-franca of the time and area, many of the Jews of the Diaspora lost the knowledge of Hebrew and had become rather Greek speakers, readers, and writers.
		The work that came out of the project was the Septuagint (usually rendered LXX, for the 70 [72] rabbis) and it has served as an important text for the study of the Hebrew and Greek languages.
		The northern kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V in 722 BCE.
	library.sebts.edu /smadden/Qumran/qumranlibrary005.htm (3171 words)

	Rediscover Ancient Egypt - The Christian Copts of Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Alexander died in 323 BCE, one of his generals, Ptolemy, son of Lagus, took charge under the nominal rulership of Alexander’s brother Philip Arrhidaeus.
		When Palestine fell under the control of Ptolemy I in 301 BCE, he brought back Jewish mercenaries, who joined the already-established communities in Egypt.
		The High Priest of Jerusalem sent 72 elders to Alexandria, six representatives from each of the twelve tribes of Israel, together with an official copy of the Pentateuch.
	www.egypt-tehuti.org /articles/copts.html (1964 words)

	A Buddhist Timeline
		Known as “Alexander the Great.” 356-323 B.C.E. King of Macedonia (336-323) and conquerer of Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia.
		The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in human beings and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
		Pantheon, a domed temple in Rome, completed in 27 B.C.E. and dedicated to all the gods was most probably influenced by Buddhist architecture, which was characterized by the dome.
	www.greatwesternvehicle.org /pali/buddhist-time-line.htm (1431 words)

	Nomads of the Steppe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It must needs be emphasized that by the 5th century BCE, the Ukraine was entirely in the hands of the Scythians, a different people from the Cimmerians, whom they replaced in this region in the 9th century BCE.
		By the 5th century BCE the Sarmatians held control of the land between the Urals and the Don River.
		The ruling dynasty of the Bosporan Kingdom (see Crimea) from the end of the 1st century BCE on was Sarmatian in origin, and probably belonged to the Roxolanoi originally.
	www.hostkingdom.net /siberia.html (7937 words)

	Aramaic language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ezra 4:8–6:18 and 7:12–26 — documents from the Achaemenid period (fifth century BCE) concerning the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem.
		These dialects reflect a stream of Aramaic that is not dependent on Imperial Aramaic, and shows a clear division between the regions of Mesopotamia, Babylon and the east, and Judah, Syria, and the west.
		Aramaic came to coexist with Canaanite dialects, eventually displacing Phoenician in the 1st century BCE and Hebrew around the turn of the 4th century CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aramaic_language (5733 words)

	what is the greek name of Sandrocottus's grandson - KOINONIA Greek Forum
		Antiochos refers to Antiochus II Theos of Syria (261-246 BCE), who controlled the Seleucid Empire from Syria to Bactria, in the east from 305 BCE to 250 BCE, and was therefore a direct neighbor of Ashoka.
		Ptolemy refers to Ptolemy II Philadelphos of Egypt (285-247 BCE), king of the dynasty founded by Ptolemy I, a former general of Alexander the Great, in Egypt.
		Alexander refers to Alexander II of Epirus (272-258 BCE).
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/koinonia/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=154 (518 words)

	Asian Art and Architecture: Art & Design 382/582
		Burma and Thailand of swings between ongoing cultural syncretism and movements for "purity." (In Bali Hinduism became the dominant strain, elsewhere it was Theravada.) Texts and pedigreed ordination lines in monasteries were one institution, forest monks were another.
		247 BCE Ashoka sent missionaries to Suvarnabhuma (Mon Burma and Siam), as well as Sri Lanka.
		Indianized states with Brahmanism and Buddhism are known from the 1st c CE.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~tart/arth382/lecture16.html (2966 words)

	Badass of the Week: Hannibal Barca
		Hannibal Barca was born in Carthage in 247 BCE, the son of Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca and a Spanish wife.
		He would come to be known throughout the world as one of the greatest military minds of the Classical Age.
		Hannibal assumed control of a large Carthaginian army around 216 BCE, as Carthage was reeling from it's defeat in the First Punic War and attempting to accept its place as a declining power in the Mediterranean region.
	www.amazingben.com /arf0049.html (668 words)

	The Septuagint Online: Electronic Resources for the Study of the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions
		THE SEPTUAGINT, derived from the Latin word for "seventy," can be a confusing term, since it ideally refers to the third-century BCE translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt.
		There is a complicated story, however, behind the translation and the various stages, amplifications, and modifications to the collection we now call the Septuagint.
		The earliest, and best known, source for the story of the Septuagint is the Letter of Aristeas, a lengthy document that recalls how Ptolemy (Philadelphus II [285–247 BCE]), desiring to augment his library in Alexandria, Egypt, commissioned a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek.
	www.kalvesmaki.com /LXX (1894 words)

	NASA Five Millennium Catalog of Lunar Eclipses
		-1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)
		During the 50 century period -1999 to 3000 (i.e.: 2000 BCE to 3000 CE), Earth experiences 12186 lunar eclipses as follows:
		The eclipses during this period are arranged into 100 year long tables where each table includes data described as follows.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /eclipse/LEcat/LEcatalog.html (532 words)

	Timeline of Buddhist History
		380 BCE: 2nd Buddhist Council; split of the "Mahasanghika" and "Sarvastivadin" schools.
		247 BCE : 3rd Buddhist Council to agree on authentic Buddhist scriptures: establishment of the Theravada canon; more and separate schools within Buddhism develop.
		35 BCE Sri Lanka: King Vattagamani orders the Buddhist teachings (Theravada canon) to be committed to writing.
	www.omplace.com /omsites/Buddhism/timeline.html (1138 words)

	ParthianEmpire.htm
		Written literature of Parthians did not survive, so their history had to be put together from Greek, Roman and Chinese historical literature.
		Around 250 BCE, a Parini tribal king named Arsaces declared his independence from the Seleucid Empire and established his kingdom of Parthia in the area of present day Turkmanistan.
		In 206 BCE, the Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great made the Parthians to submit to him and forbid minting coins in the name of the parthian king.
	www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C5/ParthianEmpire/ParthianEmpire.htm (242 words)

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