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	Maurya Empire Summary
		However, the prospect of battling Magadha in a major war was one of the factors that caused the refusal of Alexander's troops to go further east: he returned to Babylon, and he re-deployed most of his troops west of the Indus river.
		He was assassinated in 185 BCE during a military parade, by the commander-in-chief of his guard, the Brahmin general Pusyamitra Sunga, who then took over the throne and established the Sunga dynasty.
		The assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of persecution for Buddhists, and a resurgence of Hinduism.
	www.bookrags.com /Maurya_Empire (3766 words)

	History of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_India (4320 words)

	Mauryan dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mauryan_dynasty (113 words)

	Basilicata Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 298 BCE, Livy records, they made alliance with Rome, and Roman influence was extended by the colonies of Venusia (291 B.C.), Paestum (Greek Posidonia, refounded in 273), and above all Roman Tarentum (refounded in 272).
		When Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in Italy, 281 BCE they were among the first to declare in his favor, and after his abrupt departure they were reduced to subjection, in a ten year campaign (272 B.C.).
		Enmity continued to run deep; they espoused the cause of Hannibal during the Second Punic War (216 BCE), and Lucania was ravaged by both armies during several campaigns.
	cricketworld.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/basilicata.html (564 words)

	500 BCE-300 BCE
		Xunzi, or Hsün-tzu, (298-238) BCE was a native of Zhao (Chao), China, becoming a well-recognized scholar and rising to official posts, including that of magistrate.
		The main thread of the song appears to be a celebration of a marriage in a form that may be descended from a Sumerian fertility rite performed between a king and a cultic priestess.
		Polybius (c.203-122 BCE) was born in Megalopolis, Arcadia, a Greek city that was an active member of the Achaean League.
	www.humanistictexts.org /400-200bce.htm (1218 words)

	BCE reports 2006 year-end and fourth quarter results
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		BCE Q4 operating income was $760 million, down from $881 million, due again to the restructuring and other costs incurred by Bell Canada.
		BCE cash from operating activities for Q4 was $1,527 million, a decrease of 2.1% compared to the same period for the previous year.
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	Rulers of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buyeo is believed to have risen from the areas of Joseon in the 2nd to the 3rd centuries BCE.
		Bukbuyeo was later succeeded by Goguryeo, but Dongbuyeo, ruled by the heirs of Emperor Haemosu, was shattered by Goguryeo in 22 CE.
		The rulers of Dongbuyeo submitted to the overlordship of Bukbuyeo in 86 BCE, and thus used the title Wang, which means king.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rulers_of_Korea (1497 words)

	Mauryan dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chandragupta Maurya (322 BCE - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
		Bindusara (297 BCE - 272 BCE) - Chandraguptas son.
		Brhadrata (187 BCE - 185 BCE) - last Mauryan ruler, assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga, who ascended the throne and founded the Sunga dynasty.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Ruling-clans-of-India/Mauryan-dynasty.html (80 words)

	diadochi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		306 BCE - Ptolemy's navy was defeated by the navy of Demetrius near Cyprus.
		301 BCE - The Battle of Ipsus was fought among Alexander's successors.
		281 BCE - A battle was fought in Lydia among Alexander's Successors.
	www.medialdea.net /historyguy80538/diadochi.htm (607 words)

	The Family Cornelii Scipiones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BCE, he reputedly saved his father's life at the battle of Ticinius in 218, and as military triune, to have rallied the Romans after their defeat by Hannibal at Cannae.
		Elected consul for the year 205 BCE, he crossed to Africa in 205 despite senatorial opposition and after operations that included a truce, defeated Hannibal (who had returned to from Italy to defend the his home) in 202 at the battle of Zama.
		The tomb of the consul of 298 BC Cornelius Scipio son of Gnaeus [.......] Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, offspring of his father Gnaeus, a brave and wise man whose appearance was fully equal to his virtue: he was consul censor and aedile among you.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /scipio-family.htm (1946 words)

	Introduction to the Zhou Dynasty and the Age of Confucius
		The Zhou dynasty (c.1100-256 BCE) conquers and succeeds the Shang; later generations seek to reclaim and preserve the idealized peace of the early Zhou (or Western Zhou) period.
		The Zhou is divided into the Western Zhou (1027-771 BCE), when the capital was near Xian, and the Eastern Zhou (770-221 BCE), when the capital was moved eastward to Luoyang.
		BCE), whose philosophy is often called that of "universal love," and the School of Yin and Yang and the Five Agents.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/eacp/japanworks/webcourse/key_points/kp_2.htm (624 words)

	Early Chinese Philosophy
		Before the time of Confucius, (551-479 BCE), a social group, the Ju (literally, ‘weaklings’ or ‘foundlings’), existed whose members were ritualists and sometimes also teachers by profession.
		Confucius belonged to this group; but although he retained the interest in rituals, he was also concerned with the chaotic social and political situation and with the search for remedies, which he believed to lie in the restoration and maintenance of certain traditional values and norms.
		BCE) regarded the ideal as a full realization of certain incipient moral inclinations shared by human beings, and emphasized the need to reflect on and fully develop such inclinations.
	members.aol.com /moresophia/confucius.html (2437 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		[BCE, BUC, NC] Barkema, H. Determining the syntactic flexibility of idioms.
		[BCE] Rissanen, M. On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics.
		[BCE] Souter, C. Harmonising a lexical database with a corpus-based grammar.
	www.csi.uottawa.ca /tanka/files/biblio.after.1989 (5988 words)

	Nova Roma - Aquila
		On the highest of the enclosed hills, the acropolis was situated; on the surrounding plateau of Mercatello was the main residential area.
		BCE the tribe had developed a culture of great vitality and distinction.
		Although they allied with Rome in 298, the Lucanians opposed and were defeated by that power in the Pyrrhic War (280-275), the second Punic War (218-201), and the Social War (90-88).
	www.novaroma.org /aquila/january/01.htm (498 words)

	Fish Taco Boy: News from 298 BCE
		300 to 298 BCE was a very busy time for the Julii, my clan.
		298 BCE: The port of Ravenna is back in business after the revolt, so I can now trade, add a shipwright, and build a fleet.
		I (my character’s name was Gaius the Mighty) died in 307 BCE and left my son Augustus Flaminius as my heir.
	booleanwombat.blogspot.com /2004/11/news-from-298-bce.html (873 words)

	Velathri (Volterra) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first signs of the Etruscans in Velathri were during the early 7th Century BCE, with inscriptions found on artifacts and steles.
		From that time until the 4th Century BCE, Velathri's territory spread to the west as far as Elba, rich in iron deposits, to the north as far as the Arno, to the south as far as the territories of of Vetulonia and Russellae while to the east it bordered on Faesulae, Arezzo and Chiusi.
		The city was loyal to Rome during the social war and in 90 BCE Julius Caesar granted Voltaterrae the right of Roman Citizenship as token of gratitude.
	www.mysteriousetruscans.com /felathri.html (484 words)

	Timeline of Buddhism Definition / Timeline of Buddhism Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		563 BCE: Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha) is born in LumbiniLumbini (Sanskrit; lit.
		400s BCE: Kharoṣṭhī script began to be used in GandharaGandhāra (also Ghandara, Ghandahra) is the ancient name of a region in eastern Afghanistan and north-west Pakistan centered on the Swat River (see Udyana) and Kabul River, tributaries of the Indus River.
		The rulers of the Mauryan dynasty were: Chandragupta Maurya (322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
	www.elresearch.com /Timeline_of_Buddhism (1265 words)

	Mauryan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chandragupta was again in conflict with the Greeks when Seleucus I, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, tried to reconquer the northwestern parts of India, during a campaign in 305 BCE, but failed.
		The Greeks in India even seem to have played an active role in the propagation of Buddhism, as some of the emissaries of Ashoka, such as Dharmaraksita, are described in Pali sources as leading Greek ("Yona") Buddhist monks, active in Buddhist proselytism (the Mahavamsa, XII Full text of the Mahavamsa Click chapter XII).
		Although the extent of their successes against indigenous powers such as the Sungas, Satavahanas, and Kalingas are unclear, what is clear is that Scythian tribes, renamed Indo-Scythians, brought about the demise of the Indo-Greeks from around 70 BCE and retained lands in the trans-Indus, the region of Mathura, and Gujarat.
	buddhism.2be.net /Mauryan (5390 words)

	Women in power 500- CE. 1
		She was a niece of Dariusz III Kodoman, she was married to tyrant Dionizos, Krateros and since 300 to Lysimachus, king of Thrace and Macedonia, whom she divorced in 298 and returned Herakleia.
		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.
		During the reign of Emperor Wu Di (BCE 140-86) she companied Princess Xieyou as her lady-in-waiting on her bridal journey to marry the chieftain of the Wusun tribe in the Western Regions.
	www.guide2womenleaders.com /womeninpower/Womeninpower00000.htm (4864 words)

	canakya.com - The Mauryan dynasty
		The Mauryan dynasty ruled the Mauryan empire, the first unified empire of India, from 322 BCE to 183 BCE.
		Chandragupta Maurya (322 - 298 BCE) - founder of the Mauryan empire.
		Brhadrata (187 - 185 BCE) - last Mauryan ruler, assassinated by his general Pusyamitra Sunga, who ascended the throne and founded the Sunga dynasty.
	www.canakya.com /content/view/16 (108 words)

	Eastern Philosophy, Glossary of Terms (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Chuang-Tzu (369-286 BCE): Second of the great Taoist philosophers, attributed with composing the first portion of the text titled the Chuang-Tzu; using colorful stories, the text describes the notions of the Tao, non-action, non-mind, transformation, and freedom artificial social constraints.
		Hsun-Tzu (298-238 BCE): Early skeptical Confucian philosopher who argued that all events are in accord with natural law, and that humans are by nature selfish; his writings are collected in a work titled The Hsun-Tzu.
		Perfection of Wisdom (prajnaparamita): In Mahayana Buddhism, an early collection of writings beginning about 100 BCE which focuses on the importance of wisdom among the ten ideal perfections (paramitas); emphasizing the notion of emptiness (sunyata), the most famous of these works are the Diamond Cutter Sutra (vajracchedika-prajnaparaita) and the Heart Sutra (prajnaparamita-hydaya).
	www.utm.edu /staff/jfieser/vita/teaching/2003/eastglos.htm (4582 words)

	early_roman_history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		753 BCE is the traditional date for the foundation of Rome by Romulus and Remus, sons of Rhea Silvia and Mars.
		496 BCE: Defeat of the Latins at Lake Regilla.
		334-264 BCE (or, roughly, the fourth and start of the third centuries): Gradual expansion of Roman control of Italy, through conquest, colonization, and alliance.
	classics.uc.edu /hooker/cc112_2000/early_roman_history.html (669 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 771 BCE the Zhou moved their capital from the Chang'an (Xi'an) area further to the east to Luoyang after the king had been driven out of his capital by an uprising and the destruction of the capital by former vassals.
		Warfare and political crises during the Warring States period inspired the flourishing of new philosophical and religious ideas (‘100 Schools’) which were competing in the attempt to develop the ideal theory and practice of ruling the realm.
		He discussed matters of politics and stressed the importance that the ruler should act as a virtuous leader who has no need to rely on punishment in his rule but remained unmoved and ‘objective’ in his judgment at all times.
	www.uoregon.edu /~inaasim/Foundations/Keywords%205.htm (2028 words)

	Quirinus
		A second temple to Quirinus was dedicated on the Quirinal on 29 June 293 BCE by L. Papirius Cursor, probably in fulfillment of a vow by his father the dictator (14) in the wake of the Roman victories at Sentinum, 295 BCE and Aquilonia 293 BCE over the Samnites.
		However in 45 BCE the Senate honored Julius Caesar as a war hero and as ‘the unconquered god' by placing a statue of him in the temple of Quirinus, rather than in the Temple of Mars.
		The main festival of Quirinus is the Quirinalia, held on 17 Feb. This could be significant in that February did mark the end of the traditional calendar, and March the beginning, and thereby signify the transition of the season of Quirinus over to the season of Mars.
	home.tiscali.be /mauk.haemers/collegium_religionis/quirinus.htm (5942 words)

	HHF Factpaper: The Babylonian Origin of Greek Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Aristotle (384-322 BCE), considered in western eyes as the father of formal logic, credited "a Jew" and the "learned men" with whom the Jew associated as one important source of his wisdom.
		Megasthenes, ambassador to India under Seleucus from 306-298 BCE stated unequivocally that concepts credited to the Greeks were revealed to them in their intercourse with eastern sages.
		Berosus, a priest of the Babylonian chief God, Marduk, under Antiochus I (281-261 BCE), lauded Judaic erudition, albeit his religion was sharply at variance from that of the Jews.
	www.hebrewhistory.info /factpapers/fp016_science.htm (4989 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)

	Telecom Update #298, September 4, 2001
		ONTARIO PLANS GOVERNMENT E-SERVICES: Bell Canada, BCE Emergis, CGI, and KPMG have signed a five-year contract with the Ontario government to build and operate the network and software needed to deliver government services on-line, by telephone, and at kiosks.
		BCE STILL OWES EXCEL DEBT: According to published reports, BCE remains responsible for a billion-dollar debt incurred by Excel Communications, even after its sale of Excel to VarTec Telecom.
		Subscribe now and receive the September issue, containing an exclusive interview with Jean Monty on the future of BCE and Canadian telecom, a tutorial on planning and optimizing Megalink, a survey of business use of broadband wireless, and more.
	www.angustel.ca /update/up298.html (1078 words)

	Department of Religious Studies
		Atheism - a term that combines the Greek theos, meaning god, with the negative prefix a- which often denotes the negative form of a word; the philosophical position that denies the existence of God or the gods; to be distinguished from theism and agnosticism.
		Although today the notion of comparative religion is sometimes limited to the work carried out in a world religions course and textbooks, during the field's formative period in late nineteenth-century, Comparative Religion was the name often given to the entire field.
		Whereas the Roman writer Cicero (106-43 BCE) favored the first option, the later Christian writer Lactantius (250-325 CE) favored the latter.
	www.as.ua.edu /rel/aboutreldefinitions.html (5477 words)

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