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	24th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2900–2334 BC -- Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
		2350 BC --- End of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Mesopotamia.
		2334–2279 BC -- Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2333_BC (220 words)

	Encyclopedia: 24th century BC
		Encyclopedia: 24th century BC Russia produces more natural gas than the next six countries combined, and has over a quarter of the world's proven gas reserves.
		In 689 BC its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground and the rubbish thrown into the, the canal which bordered the earlier Babylon on the south.
		In 331 BC The Persian king Darius III was defeated by the forces of the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great at the battle of Gaugamela, and in October Babylon saw its invasion and occupation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/24th-century-BC (482 words)

	Special:Allpages/2400 BC Definition / Special:Allpages/2400 BC Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		24th Regiment of FootThe South Wales Borderers was an infantry regiment of the British Army.
		It was created, along with the 24th Infantry Division by the splitting of the Hawaii Division in recognition of the buildup needed by the increase in tension with Japan, and the near state of war that existed with Germany....
		Events 100 BC-AD 1899 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain AD 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeated Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
	www.elresearch.com /Special:Allpages/2400_BC (8225 words)

	Babylon - Tower of Babel - Crystalinks
		The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr.), who made it the capital of his empire.
		From around the 20th century BC, it was occupied by Amorites (nomadic Semitic tribes), flooding southern Mesopotamia from the the west, until it became the capital of Hammurabi's empire (ca.
		In 689 BC, its walls, temples and palaces were razed to the ground, and the rubbish thrown into the Arakhtu, the canal bordering the earlier Babylon on the south.
	www.crystalinks.com /babylon.html (2605 words)

	MSN Encarta - Asia
		By 3000 bc the ancient country of Sumer was the center of a sophisticated culture.
		From the 9th to the 7th century bc, Babylonia’s northern neighbor, Assyria, amassed significant territory under the rule of Ashirnasirpur II and his successors.
		During the 6th century bc the entire region fell to Iranian invaders, becoming part of Persia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574726_7/Asia.html (849 words)

	Saudi Arabia: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The domestication of the camel around the 12th century BC made desert travel easier and gave rise to a flourishing society in South Arabia, centred around the state of Saab (Sheila).
		In the 6th century Quraysh - the noble and holy house of the confederation of the Hejaz controlling the sacred enclave of Mecca - contrived a series of agreements with the northern and southern tribes.
		In the 8th century, the borders of the Arabian Empire reached from North Africa and Spain to the west, to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east.
	gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=141 (3327 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 3rd millennium BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
		The 3rd millennium BC represents the beginning of factual history, since it is the first time we do have real names to name and detailed stories to tell.
		These exciting potentials and riches were certainly too tempting to be left alone, and it was not long before powerful individuals were to prey on the new civilization all around for their aggrandizement, to accumulate more wealth and power, and mark their names in the written books of fame.
		The 3rd millennium BC saw the first explosive appearances of mega architecture, imperialism, organized absolutism andâ¦ revolution.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /3rd_millennium_BC.htm (733 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - 24th century
		Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908), 22nd and 24th president of the United States (1885-1889, 1893-1897), the only chief executive to be reelected after...
		It was probably composed in the 8th century bc, but it describes events of...
		It was probably composed in the 8th century bc.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=24th+century (145 words)

	Yao -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		24th century BC) of the golden age of antiquity, exalted by Confucius as an inspiration and perennial model of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish devotion.
		In the late 20th century there were estimated to be 1,400,000 in China, 360,000 in Vietnam and Laos, and 30,000 in northern Thailand.
		The material covers about 17 centuries, until about 630 BC, and is divided into 58 chapters, five thought to come from the time of the legendary emperors Yao and Shun of the 24th to 23rd century BC.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077818 (686 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr.
		After passing through various vicissitudes, the city was occupied in 538 BC by Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1).
		A tablet dated 275 BC states that the inhabitants of Babylon were transported to Seleucia, where a palace was built, as well as a temple given the ancient name of E-Saggila.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Babylon (1551 words)

	©´¯`·-· IraqWho.com ·-·´¯`© - Your gateway to IRAQ
		At the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, an artificial stone often regarded as a forerunner of concrete was in use at Uruk (160 miles south-southeast of modern Baghdad), but the secret of its manufacture apparently was lost in subsequent years.
		Of the Greeks, Herodotus of Halicarnassus (5th century BC, a contemporary of Xerxes I and Artaxerxes I) was the first to report on "Babylon and the rest of Assyria"; at that date the Assyrian empire had been overthrown for more than 100 years.
		At the turn of the 4th to 3rd millennium BC, the long span of prehistory is over, and the threshold of the historical era is gained, captured by the existence of writing.
	www.iraqwho.com /History_Background.asp (5973 words)

	Ethics of Shang, Zhou and the Classics by Sanderson Beck
		In the eleventh century BC the Zhou house became strong in the west by conquest and alliances with nearby states.
		In 771 BC King Yu was killed by invading barbarians, and the resulting split between two courts led to the acceptance of the eastern capital as primary, marking the beginning of the Eastern Zhou period.
		Until 591 BC this office of First Noble or protector was assumed by the most powerful of the rulers, who repelled invasions, punished the disobedient, arbitrated differences among the state rulers, received the revenues that before had gone to the king, and even settled disputes among the royal family.
	www.san.beck.org /EC13-Chou.html (14215 words)

	Egypt - Map & Country Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the fifth century BC Herodotus wrote that 'nowhere are there so many marvellous things' as in Egypt, 'nor in the world besides are to be seen so many things of unspeakable greatness' - and not too much has changed.
		The first pyramid was built in the 27th century BC; over the next 500 years the monuments grew increasingly grander.
		From 1550 to 1069 BC, the New Kingdom bloomed under rulers such as Tuthmosis I, the first pharaoh to be entombed in the Valley of the Kings; his daughter Hatshepsut, one of Egypt's few female pharaohs; and Tuthmosis III, Egypt's greatest conqueror, who expanded the empire into western Asia.
	www.unchartedoutposts.com /africa/webpages/main/homepage_egypt.htm (1773 words)

	Special:Allpages/20th May Definition / Special:Allpages/20th May Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This is different from the century known as the twenty-one hundreds, which comprises the years 2100 to 2199....
		21st Century Democrats21st Century Democrats is a political organization active since 2000 in assisting candidates it describes as "progressive" or "populist" in winning elections.
		Events Up to 1 BC 217 BC - Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War...
	www.elresearch.com /Special:Allpages/20th_May (8666 words)

	11. Intro Sumerian Kinglist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the late 19th century, a series of excavations was undertaken at Lagash by French archaeologists working under the direction of the Louvre Museum and at Nippur by Americans under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania.
		Most of the finds belong to the 3rd millennium BC, from the Early Dynastic, Akkad and Ur III periods, and include a large number of cuneiform tablets and many fine statues of Gudea, who was governor of Lagash in the 22nd century BC.
		Urukagina was the last Early Dynasty king of Lagash (mid-24th century BC on the middle chronology) and the text records a series of sweeping reforms he instituted, directed against a corrupt and over powerful palace bureaucracy.
	www.earth-history.com /Earth-11.htm (9903 words)

	The constitution is a sign of civilization Persian Journal Latest Iran News, news Tehran Iranian News persian news web ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		24th century BC and writings from Mesopotamia (Uruk, modern Warka) are among the earliest known in the world, giving Mesopotamia a reputation of being the "Cradle of Civilization".
		The lasting achievement of Hammurabi's rule was that the theatre of Mesopotamian history, which had been in the south from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, was shifted to the north, where it remained for more than 1,000 years.
		It consists of his legal decisions that were collected toward the end of his reign and inscribed on a diorite stela set up in Babylon's temple of Marduk, the national god of Babylonia.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/printer_10283.shtml (1639 words)

	Syria Gate - About Syria - Tells around Al Hasakeh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Akkadian fortress was the residence of the Akkadian ruler Naram Sin in the 24th century BC.
		It was rebuilt by the third Ur dynasty in the 22nd century BC but was abandoned soon after.
		It dates back to 3200 BC and was named so in reference to the big number of flat idols with an enlarged representation of an eye.
	www.syriagate.com /Syria/about/cities/Al_Hassakeh/tell01.htm (407 words)

	The character and influence of ancient Mesopotamia
		With the Hittites, large areas of Anatolia were infused with the culture of Mesopotamia from 1700 BC onward.
		Contacts, via Mari, with Ebla in Syria, some 30 miles south of Aleppo, go back to the 24th century BC, so that links between Syrian and Palestinian scribal schools and Babylonian civilization during the Amarna period (14th century BC) may have had much older predecessors.
		At any rate, the similarity of certain themes in cuneiform literature and the Old Testament, such as the story of the Flood or the motif of the righteous sufferer, is due to such early contacts and not to direct borrowing.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/influenc.html (355 words)

	23rd century BC - TheBestLinks.com - 2250 BC, Akkad, Centuries, Mesopotamia, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		(24th century BC - 23rd century BC - 22nd century BC - other centuries)
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	Business Software Review : Article '23rd century BC' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		24th century BC Significant persons Urukagina Sargon of Akkad Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, priestess and the first author known by name Dangun Inventions, discoveries, introductions The first official mentioning of beekeeping in Egypt Source: [1] (http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/beekeeping.htm) Ancient Egypt: Beekeeping and waxnl:24e eeuw v.
		22nd century BC (23rd century BC - 22nd century BC - 21st century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events c.2202 BC -- Last eruption of Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska.
		If she is a historical ruler, she probably lived in the 23rd to 25th century BC.
	www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticle67303.html (558 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Pharaohs, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks and the British have all ruled Egypt, and modern Egypt is an amalgam of these legacies and the influences of Islam and the 20th century.
		But it was the Pharaohs of the New Kingdom who were especially keen on adorning the interiors of their tombs with vivd images of the afterworld and resurrection.
		Cairo has several buildings that are luxorious with a design from the 21st century, but you will soon notice that these buildings are mostly comprised of hotels and airline corportations, most of which has been built in the last five years.
	www.bsu.edu /World2000/research/rudicel/egypt.htm (1419 words)

	Asia Times
		Sahab is one of the caretakers of Babylon, the mythical Bab Ilou (God's gate), founded in the 24th century BC by the Amorite king Sumu-Abum.
		The Lion of Babylon - supposedly a trophy from Hitite times, middle of the 2nd millennium BC - is an enigmatic basalt statue representing a man who is about to be killed by a lion.
		But in fact the man is resisting: with one hand he tries to shove the lion's mouth away, and with the other he fights one of the lion's menacing paws.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/ED26Ak06.html (1257 words)

	3rd millennium BC
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		Foundation of the city of Mari (Syria) (29th century BC)
		Building of the Great Pyramid of Giza (26th century BC)
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/3/3r/3rd_millennium_bc.html (136 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/25th century BC
		25th century BC 26th century BC - 25th century BC - 24th century BC - other centuries)
		2494 BC -- End of Fourth Dynasty, start of Fifth Dynasty in Egypt.
		2450 BC - End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic IIIb Period in Mesopotamia.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/25th_century_BC (165 words)

	2.3. THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		So, 1700 BC was a terminus post quem for Baudhayana’s mathematics, which would reasonably be dated to the later part of the Harappan period which ended in ca.
		We are aware that the equinox axis never points exactly towards the constellation Orion, which lies south of the ecliptic; but it is understand a that the relatively starless area between the constellations of Gemini and Taurus was named after the conspicuous constellation Orion which lies nearby on the same longitude.
		According to Asko Parpola, Indus~Saraswati seal 430 (reasonably datable to the 24th century BC) depicting the Seven Sisters seems to refer to the observation of the Pleiades.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch23.htm (2375 words)

	2.4. ADDITIONAL ASTRONOMICAL INDICATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This version was in use in northern India from at least the 4th century BC, as witnessed by the statements of Greek and Roman writers; it was also the version used by Vrddha Garga, at around the start of the Christian era.”
		It so happens that in the 7th millennium BC, the oceans were still in the process of recovering the ground they lost during the ice Age, when the sea level was for thousands of years nearly a hundred metres below the present level.
		From the description, one can deduce a number of conditions determining the times at which it could have taken place: it was at that site a central, non-total eclipse, which took place in the afternoon on the Kurukshetra meridian, on a given day after the summer solstice, at least in the reading of P.C. Sengupta.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch24.htm (3684 words)

	China - Confucianism
		The historical situation a century after Confucius' death clearly shows that the Confucian attempt to moralize politics was not working; the disintegration of the Chou feudal ritual system and the rise of powerful hegemonic states reveal that wealth and power spoke the loudest.
		Beginning in the 19th century, Chinese intellectuals' faith in the ability of Confucian culture to withstand the impact of the West became gradually eroded.
		Though the book was not generally recognized as a classic until the 12th century, a doctoral chair was established as early as the 2nd century BC to teach the Mencius.
	www.geocities.com /georgeplast/bkreligionchinaconfucius (8623 words)

	Archaeology and the Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During the approximately three and a half centuries separating the Qumran Book of Isaiah from the version originally compiled in Babylon, one might be tempted to posit even fewer changes than during the eleven centuries separating Qumran and Aleppo.
		For centuries there was a tomb at Schechem reverenced as the tomb of Joseph.
		External Evidence For Balaam And The Dust Cloud Of Israel: Hesiod's Theogony, a Greek poem of the eighth century B.C. is the oldest external writing which echoes the inscriptions on the walls of Deir Alla regarding Balaam and the dust cloud.
	www.rchristopherministries.org /P304.html (8359 words)

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