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  Chremonidean War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Chremonidean War 267 BCE - 261 BCE was fought by a number of Greek states against Macedon domination.
The anti-Macedon faction in Athens, led by the stoic Chremonides, took power and war was declared against Macedon (possibly as early as the autumn of 268 BCE).
The campaign season of 266 BCE was indecisive but in 265 BCE Antigonus won a decisive victory outside Corinth in which the Spartan King Areus I fell.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chremonidean_War   (216 words)

  
 First Quarter Earnings
BCE is continuing to examine all the alternatives available to it, in order to realize maximum value from its loans to Kinburn.
The BCE loans are secured by a first charge on 13.5 per cent of the outstanding shares of SHL Systemhouse; and by a second charge over further collateral, which is pledged on a priority basis to secure approximately $350 million in loans to Kinburn by a syndicate of financial institutions.
BCE consolidated earnings per common share are after deducting preferred dividend requirements equivalent to $0.05 per common share in the first quarter of 1990 ($0.01 in 1989).
www.bce.ca /en/news/releases/bce/1990/04/25/4251.html   (717 words)

  
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Their conservative government consists of a kingship, resembling the traditional values of the patriarchal family; an assembly, composed of male citizens of military age; and a Senate, comprised of elders who serve as the heads of different community sects.
Their major contributions to the Romans are the arch and the vault, gladiatorial combat for entertainment and the study of animals to predict future events.
52 BCE: Rome - Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/ropage.htm   (2946 words)

  
 Ancient Roman Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
367 BCE: Rome The first plebeian consul is elected to the assembly, and plebeians become eligible to serve as lesser magistrates, formerly a position only granted to the aristocratic class.
265 BCE: Rome initiates the Punic Wars with Carthage, an oligarchic empire stretching from the northern coast of Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar.
52 BCE: Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
www.crystalinks.com /romehistory.html   (3100 words)

  
 MauryaEmpire.htm
Megasthenes was sent to the court of King Chandragupta Maurya as an ambassador by hellenistic King Seleucus I Nicator after a peace treaty was signed between them and sealed with a marriage alliance of Seleucus' daughter and Chandragupta's son.
Chandragupta Maurya abnegated the empire in 297 BCE to became an Jain ascetic and traveled to a town Sravana Belgola (near present day Bangalore) in South India.
Asoka succeeded his father Bindusara either in 272 or 265 BCE (historians are not in agreement)).
worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/MauryanEmpire/MauryaEmpire.htm   (383 words)

  
 China_Empire
The northern Xiongnu are putatively the "ancestors" or predecessors of the Huns which marched across Central Asia and the "Middle East" and which subsequently invaded Europe.
Maodun (pronounced Modu): 174 BCE "sanyu" (king-chieftain) of the Xiongnu Confederation at its peak of power in the early Han period.
After reaching peak in northern India in the 3rd century BCE, Buddhism became less dominant in India but began to spread to Central Asia and to Southeast Asia.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~ckk/China_Empire.html   (960 words)

  
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 History
In 265 BCE, the ruler of Syracuse, Hiero, had tried to dislodge them.
The first encounter of the two fleets at Mylae off the coast of Sicily in 260 BCE was a Roman victory which was followed by an even more crushing success off Cape Ecnomus when eighty Carthaginian ships were either sunk or captured.
Further disasters struck Rome when a fleet sent to rescue the survivors was destroyed in a storm and thousands of trained oarsmen were drowned.
cornellia.fws1.com /first_punic_war.htm   (798 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).
virtualreligion.net /iho/macedon.html   (559 words)

  
 Zeus
He has always been associated as being a weather god, as his main attribute is the thunderbolt, he controlled thunder, lightning and rain.
Theocritus wrote circa 265 BCE: "sometimes Zeus is clear, sometimes he rains".
He brought peace in place of violence and Hesiod (circa 700 BCE) describes Zeus as "the lord of justice".
www.pantheon.org /articles/z/zeus.html   (1346 words)

  
 Archaeologia: Orvieto
Urbs Vetus), that the Etruscan city was the Volsinii of which the ancient sources speak, conquered and destroyed by Roman troops in 265 BCE and then reconstructed not far away.
In the centre of the necropolis, traces of a higher, square blocked construction have been discovered, the purpose of which we are uncertain of.
The temple is built on a large base, approached by a stairway, and it is on of the canonic Etruscan type with three chambers and a colonnade at the front.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/739238   (759 words)

  
 Timelines
539 BCE) Repeals strict Draconian laws and brings constitution to Athens, taxation of prostitutes.
Plato (427-347 BCE) teaches dualist philosophy (form/matter) in his academy in Athens.
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) modifies Platonic philosophy in his lycaeum in Athens
www.unc.edu /memsgateway/html/timelines.html   (941 words)

  
 Academy * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Modern scholars have divided the teachings of The Academy into “schools” because the world-view and style evolved as time passed and as different teachers presided over The Academy; the divisions are:
The Middle Academy (circa 265-150 BCE), typified by Arkesilas (Arcesilas).
The New Academy (circa 150-86 BCE), typified by Karneades (Carneades).
messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Academy_1.html   (347 words)

  
 Punic Wars 264-146 BCE
Battles and campaigns of the 1st war (264-241 BCE)
Battles and campaigns of the 2nd war (218-201 BCE)
Battles and campaigns of the 3rd war (149-146 BCE)
i-cias.com /e.o/atlas/h-punic_wars.htm   (57 words)

  
 AH 411 (Murray): Chronology of Chinese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In the following list, pinyin spelling is used, and Wade-Giles spelling is given in square brackets if it differs.
Zhou [Chou] Dynasty 1111 BCE ~ 249 BCE [or 1027-249 BCE?]
Qin [Ch'in] Dynasty (255-) 221 BCE ~ 206 BCE
www.wisc.edu /arth/ah411/jkm/chronology.html   (173 words)

  
 Pantheons: Greek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Being the god of colonists, Apollo influenced his priests at Delphi to give divine guidance, as to where the expedition should proceed.
This was during the height of the colonizing era circa 750-550 BCE.
According to one legend, it was Apollo who helped either Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.
www.wyldwytch.com /weavings/articles/altar/pages/greek.htm   (10086 words)

  
 ancient Chinese coins
Chou Dynasty @265 BCE AE cash coin 23 mm
This is one of the first (within @ 100 yrs.) of the series of round coins with square holes, a design that China used for the next 2100 years.
This coin was issued in a period of economic hardship during the final collapse of the Chou Dynasty called the warring states period.
tjbuggey.ancients.info /Chinese.html   (919 words)

  
 HISTORY — PEGC
BCE 431-403 : PELOPONNESIAN WAR (Athens vs Sparta)
BCE 338 : PHILLIP II OF MACEDON CONQUERS GREECE
BCE 265 : ROME CONSOLIDATES CONTROL OF THE ITALIAN PENNINSULA
www.justicescholars.org /pegc/geneva_history.html   (4461 words)

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