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  History of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Vedic civilization until the 1st millennium BCE spread over all of northern India, from the Punjab and the Gangetic plain to Bangladesh, so that with the beginning historical period of the Middle kingdoms, northern India was dominated by the Arya, while in the south Dravidian culture was prominent.
Gautama Buddha in the 6th or 5th century BCE was the founder of Buddhism, which later spread to East and Southeast Asia.
The Sunga dynasty was established in 185 BCE, about 50 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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 Casino Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chandragupta Maurya (322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
Bindusara (297 - 272 BCE) - Chandragupta's son.
Brhadrata (187 - 185 BCE) - last Mauryan ruler, assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga, who ascended the throne and founded the Sunga dynasty.
www.casinoencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Mauryan_dynasty   (97 words)

  
 MauryaEmpire.htm
Chandragupta ascended to power around 321 BCE after overthrowing the unpopular Nanda King of Magadha with the help of Chanukya.
Bindusara, son of Chandragupta Maurya ascended to the throne about 297 BCE after his father's abnegation.
Brhadratha was the last King of Maurya Dynasty and he was assassinated by his commander-in-chief, Pusyamitra in 181 BCE.
www.worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/MauryanEmpire/MauryaEmpire.htm   (383 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)

  
 BCE Releases Earnings - Discount Long Distance Digest - 142-039   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
BCE also recorded net gains on investments of $122 million, mainly the gain on the sale by Bell Canada of an approximate 36% interest in Telebec and Northern Telephone.
BCE Emergis' revenue was $142 million in the quarter, compared with $159 million in revenues for the same period in 2001, due mainly to a decline in non-recurring revenues.
BCE Ventures' revenue was $261 million in the quarter, flat compared with the same period of 2001.
www.thedigest.com /more/142/142-039.html   (1904 words)

  
 History of the Hellenistic and Roman World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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.
In 27 BCE, Octavian announced the "Restoration of the Republic", with himself as Princeps Senatus of the state, with the powers of a Tribune (the most important of these being the right of veto, and inviolacy) for life, and Imperator (from which the word Emperor is later derived) of Rome's armies.
www.fenrir.dk /history/timeline.php   (5770 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)

  
 Kronos: 0000-0499
Because 7400 BCE currently represents the longest continuous tree-ring series: carbon-14 in the atmosphere fluctuates from year to year, and without tree ring samples, that fluctuation cannot be precisely determined.
Accordingly, Chinese dates earlier than the ninth century BCE that are not supported by archeological data should be treated with suspicion, and all dates that are not supported by external data should be treated with caution.
Be that as it may, while Homer attributed the causes of the Trojan War to the wrath of Achilleus and the beauty of Helen, modern scholars usually attribute it to trade disputes and generic conflagration-era battles between infantry and charioteers.
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According to Indian texts written during the sixth century BCE, the god-man Krishna is born at Mathura, in Uttar Pradesh.
This belief that God was on the side of the bigger battalions was codified during the sixth century BCE, and made a fundamental part of the Six Secret Teachings of the T'ai Kung general.
The latter use is certain, by the way, as the Athenians used Scythian policemen from 530-350 BCE and their bows were of this type.
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 Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Recent opinion is that, as early as 650 BCE the Assyrian astronomers seem to have recognized the six months-five months period by which they could isolate eclipse possibilities (Steele, "Eclipse Prediction", 429).
Britton believes that the Saros cycle was known before 525 BCE (Britton, "Scientific Astronomy", 62) but, although the text identifies a particular Saros cycle, and graphically depicts the number of eclipse possibilities, the ancient commentary of Text S does not attest to an actual observation (Britton, "An Early Function", 32).
In about 547 BCE late in his life, Thales travelled into Cappadocia with Croesus, and, according to some belief, devised a scheme by which the army of Croesus was able to cross the River Halys.
www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm   (9340 words)

  
 Massage Los Angeles Tantra Place
590-470 BCE: Mahavir - Founder of Jainism, contemporary of the Buddha.
589-525 BCE: Enlightenment of the Buddha in Bodhgaya (at age 36).
297 BCE: King Asoka (274-236 BCE) converted to Buddhism; Buddhism developed from small local group to state religion.
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 Timebase Multimedia Chronography(TM) - Timebase 2000-01
400,000,000 BCE An ancestor of the modern lungfish is the first marine animal to develop the ability to breath air, and will later learn to leave the water, and crawl on dry land.
1738 BCE Perez IBN JUDAH (Phares), son of Judah ibn Jacob ISRAËL and progenitor of the Perezite Clan of the tribe of Israel, is said to have been born near Hebron, Palestine.
043 BCE Britain is finally conquered by Rome and remains under Roman occupation until 410 A.D. 042 BCE October The army of Roman Emperor Octavian defeats the army of Marcus Junius Brutus and Baius Cassius Longinus, two of Julius Caesar's assassins.
humanitas-international.org /showcase/chronography/timebase/b-c-e.htm   (5647 words)

  
 Pre-Buddhist History
These ascetics are said to have practised methods of mind training, to have been celibate, naked or clothed in the most meagre of garments, to have had no fixed abode, and to have taught a way beyond birth and death.
According to most scholars, the original Indus Valley civilisation was abruptly interrupted sometime between 1800 and 1500 BCE by an invasion of the Aryans (people from a region somewhere in Eastern Europe).
Buddhism simply proved to be one of the more successful new schools of thought within a large variety of philosophies, especially after King Ashoka became a Buddhist in 297 BCE, and turned it into a state religion.
www.geocities.com /buddhism2001/prebuddhism.html   (1635 words)

  
 index_bce_399_300
(early 300's BCE onward), the region of the upper Indus River valley in modern Pakistan and on into eastern Afghanistan (*kaladarshan*; *livius*; *perso wanadoo*), becomes a tremendous center of Greek and Buddhist cultural mingling and diffusion, as can be seen from its rich archaeological sites, especially Taxila (*livius*) and important sculpture (*ANU*; *himalayan art*).
Kautilya (also called Chanakya), the Machiavelli of South Asia, may have helped Chandragupta Maurya to take power (*Manas*), but the chronology and sources are all a bit murky and the work probably evolved over several centuries.
(300's BCE?), the first great Sanskrit grammarian: his pithy, rigorously sequential grammatical rules in the form of verse sutras are almost untranslatable, so scroll down and have a look at samples of the originals: (*taralabalu*).
www.columbia.edu /itc/mealac/pritchett/00routes/bce_399_300/index_bce_399_300.html   (430 words)

  
 Goa [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Konkani people trace their history as far back as 4000 BCE; their current centre is in Goa and are thought to have settled there around the 11th century CE.
The rulers of the Mauryan dynasty were: Chandragupta Maurya (322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
Goa was later ruled by the SatavahanasThe Sātavāhanas, also known as the Andhras, were a dynasty which ruled in Southern and Central India starting from around 230 BCE.
www.wikimirror.com /Goa   (14997 words)

  
 Timeline of Buddhist History
590-470 BCE: Mahavir - Founder of Jainism, contemporary of the Buddha.
380 BCE: 2nd Buddhist Council; split of the "Mahasanghika" and "Sarvastivadin" schools.
297 BCE: King Asoka (274-236 BCE) converted to Buddhism; Buddhism developed from small local group to state religion.
www.omplace.com /omsites/Buddhism/timeline.html   (1156 words)

  
 Ancient Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The most famous library in antiquity was created some time after 297 BCE as part of a school or museum by Ptolemy II (Philadelphus).
This library was in operation from the 17th century BCE to the 13th century BCE.
Emperor Augustus built this library during the period of 36 BCE and 28 BCE, locating it in the temple of Apollo, on the Palatine Hill.
www.innvista.com /society/education/info/anclib.htm   (5835 words)

  
 Theravada Buddhism
560 BCE is one commonly accepted date for the Buddha's birth, and the "historical" date for that event that I adopt here.
By convention there is no year zero; the year 1 BCE is followed by 1 CE.
Events of the last few decades are still much too fresh in our collective experience to argue intelligently for or against their historical significance.
www.accesstoinsight.org /history.html   (2069 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Legal Texts
Code of Hammarabi c.1780 BCE [This Site][Full Text, with introductions]
Code of Hammarabi c.1780 BCE extracts [At WSU]
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selections from Letters on the Rise of Augustus [At Saskatchewan]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook-law.html   (1373 words)

  
 Chronology of Asian maritime history
C11th BCE: After collapse of the Shang dynasty, Chinese general You Houxi led 250,000 troops to the South Pacific and the Americas.
C4th BCE: A lodestone compass was mentioned in the Chinese Book of the Devil Valley Master, 'they carry a south-pointer with them so as not to lose their way'.
C1st BCE: A blue glass bowl excavated in a Han tomb in Guangzhou is probably Roman, made on the southern shores of the Mediterranean in the C1st BCE.
www.maritimeasia.ws /topic/chronology.html   (14220 words)

  
 ArtLex on Mythology
100 BCE, marble, height 80 inches (2 m), Louvre.
CE 115, mosaic floor panel in marble, limestone, and glass, length 186 cm, Louvre.
canvas, 119 x 117 inches (303 x 297 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/m/mythology.html   (1312 words)

  
 Programs
HMST 296  Implicit and explicit responses in selected texts (philosophical, literary, theological, historical) in the western tradition from 750 BCE to 1600 to the question "What is it to be human?"
HMST 297  Implicit and explicit responses in selected texts (philosophical, literary, theological, historical) in the western tradition from 1600 to the present to the question "What is it to be human?"
HMST 297: Western Humanistic Tradition 2 (3) (Prerequisite: HMST 296)
www.arts.mcgill.ca /programs/humanistic/programs.htm   (256 words)

  
 Civilization Fanatics' Forums - Mauryan India
Chandragupta ruled for a period of twenty-four years, being succeeded by his eldest son, Bindursa, in around 297 BCE.
Not much is known of Bindursa, except for that he was called the “Slayer of Foes”.
A war of succession amongst the sons of Bindursa almost certainly broke out after Bindursa’s death, but in any case, Asoka, one of Bindursa’s sons, was firmly in control of the Empire by 269 BCE.
forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=61561   (1959 words)

  
 Astrologer Richard Nolle's 3000-Year Pluto Retrograde Tables: 300-001 BCE
All time and zodiacal position data are computer generated for the stations of Pluto in geocentric ecliptic longitude (tropical zodiac) using Matrix's BLUE*STAR software, with nominal precision to the nearest minute of arc.
NOTE: BLUE*STAR uses 0 (zero) for 1 BCE, and negative numbers for each year prior to that.
Therefore 0 = 1 BCE, -1 = 2 BCE, etc.
www.astropro.com /features/tables/geo/pl-sta/pl-sta02.html   (125 words)

  
 *** The House of Ptolemy: Egypt Under Roman Rule ***
Historical Overviews of Greco-Roman Egypt (30 BCE - 312 CE)
The complete titulature in transliterated hieroglyphics for the Roman rulers of Egypt from 30 BCE to 395 CE.
The Ecole Chronology Project supplements the Ecole Initiative by providing a two-dimensional (temporal and geographical) model of events, persons, places, etc. that are pertinent in some way to early Church history.
www.houseofptolemy.org /house001.htm   (2811 words)

  
 Astrologer Richard Nolle's 3000-Year Venus-Sun Conjunction Tables: 300-201 BCE
Astrologer Richard Nolle's 3000-Year Venus-Sun Conjunction Tables: 300-201 BCE
VENUS-SUN CONJUNCTION (GEOCENTRIC TROPICAL ZODIAC) 300 to 201 BCE copyright 2003 by Richard Nolle all rights reserved http://www.astropro.com - rnolle@astropro.com +--------------+----------+-----+---------+--------+
All time and zodiacal position data are computer generated for the conjunctions of Venus and the Sun in geocentric ecliptic longitude (tropical zodiac) using Matrix's BLUE*STAR software, with nominal precision to the nearest minute of arc.
www.astropro.com /features/tables/geo/ve-su/ve000su/vesu04.html   (119 words)

  
 Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
The Middle Bronze Age 2220-1570 BCE [At BU]
The Late Bronze Age 1570-1200 BCE [At BU]
Concerns the discovery of an Aramaic inscription in 1993, which may be first extrabiblical evidence for the House of David.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html   (5719 words)

  
 AncientCoins.htm
Map of ancient celtic lands and a brief history of ancient celts.
Heraios c.5 BCE - 45 CE Kujulu Kapdphises c.
Alexander III 333 - 303 BCE Ptolemies 304 - 200 BCE Seleucids 200 - 161 BCE
worldcoincatalog.com /AC/Index/AncientCoins.htm   (658 words)

  
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Believed to be the Sandrocottos of Greek literature of Alexander the Great's time, he seized the throne of the Magadha kingdom from the Nanda dynasty and drove out the Greek garrisons in India.
In 297 BCE, he abdicated his throne to his son Bindusara in order to become a monk.
FTP, name this ruler, the first man to unite the Indian sub-continent and the founder of the Maurya empire.
www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/ill97/ROBIN7.DOC   (4505 words)

  
 Galilean Fishing Economy
This is consistent with an Egyptian papyrus from the same period (Papyrus Tebtunis no. 5; Hunt and Edgar 1934:60-61; 118 BCE).
Archaeologists have concluded that the boat was built between 40 BCE and 70 CE, based upon the type of construction, carbon-14 test ing, and adjacent pottery.
This means that it was the type possibly used by the Yonah˜;Zebedee cooperative (including their sons: Peter, Andrew, James, and John).
www.kchanson.com /ARTICLES/fishing.html   (9983 words)

  
 Cindex.htm
Cales (city state of Magna Graecia c.800-338 BCE)
Chandragupta Maurya c.340 - 297 BCE (ancient indian emperor)
Chin (Qin) Empire 255 - 206 BCE (ancient chinese empire)
www.worldcoincatalog.com /Index/Cindex.htm   (73 words)

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