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  Department of Communication   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Prerequisites: BC 221 and 323; Eng 180 and 280.
Prerequisites: BC 221, 223, 321, and 322 or 327; Eng 180 and 280.
Prerequisites: Eng 180 and 280; BC 322 or 327, BC 324, or consent of the instructor.
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 Roxana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She married Alexander in 327 BC after he captured her when the fortress of Sogdian Rock surrendered to him.
The marriage was an attempt to reconcile the Bactrian satrapies to Alexander's rule, although ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for her.
They were protected by Alexander's mother, Olympias, in Macedon, but her assassination in 316 BC allowed Cassander to seek kingship.
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 322 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Roxana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Roxana (Persian languagePersian: روشنك ''Roshanak'', meaning "little star"), the Bactrian wife of Alexander the Great, was born earlier than the year 327 BC, although the precise date remains uncertain.
With the king's death, Roxana and her son became victims of the political intrigues of the collapse of Alexandrian empire.
As Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, he was murdered along with Roxana c.
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 Battle of the Hydaspes River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of the Hydaspes River was a battle fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against the Indian king Purushotthama (better known as Porus or Puru) on the Hydaspes River (now the Jhelum) in present-day Pakistan.
After Alexander's defeat of the last remnants of the Achaemenid Empire under Bessus in 328 BC, he started a new campaign versus the various Indian kings in 327 BC.
Alexander died a few years later in 323 BC and his empire fell apart to civil war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Hydaspes   (1169 words)

  
 pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This implies that Herakles was born in 326-327 BC during the Indian campaign.
When Alexander died in 323 BC Herakles is reported to have lived in Pergamon, in western Asia Minor, together with his mother.
The marriage was arranged in spring or August of 327 BC.
www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=71   (843 words)

  
 History Channel Exhibits: Alexander the Great
At the age of 18, Alexander commanded the left wing of the Macedonian army at the battle of Chaeronea (338 BC).
In 329 BC he overthrew the Scythians, and during 328--327 BC attacked Spitamenes at Sogdiana, where resistance was fierce.
In 327 BC, he made a start on his conquest of India, and at the R Hydaspes (Jhelum) overthrew the ruler Porus in a costly battle.
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 Roxana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Roxana (Bactrian: Roshanak, meaning "little star") wife of Alexander the Great, was born earlier than the year 327 BC although the date remains uncertain.
The daughter of a Bactrian nobleman named Oxyartes, she married Alexander in 327 BC.
They were protected by Alexander's mother, Olympias at Macedon, however her assassination in 316 BC allowed Cassander to seek kingship.
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 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and one of the greatest military ...
Alexander, born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia, was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus.
In the summer of 336 BC Philip was assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the Macedonian throne.
In 335 BC as general of the Greeks in a campaign against the Persians, originally planned by his father, he carried out a successful campaign against the defecting Thracians, penetrating to the Danube River.
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 Alexander The Great
In 336 BC Philip was assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the throne.
In 335 BC he defeated the Thracians, penetrating to the Danube River.
By 327 BC his domain extended along and beyond the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, into much of central Asia.
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 322 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In delivering his sentiments, however, faith, not only in the existence of this "Jew," but in the universally deemed a sign of good luck.
A feeling of superstition came over him limb or attitude, was made for the ten minutes that his eye nearer, however, the outlines became more and more Then the truth became apparent: it was a native of the blanket, and stood in his leggings, naked.
Phidias could not healthful youth had given to it the free and noble air of century B.C.} "Sago," said Fuller, drawing near to the young Indian, who stranger's foot-fall came unexpectedly on his ear, using between the two races.
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 4th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedon (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, invades Asia Minor, Persia and reaches India (born 356, reigned 336–323 BC).
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In the 6th century BC the Achaemenian ruler Cyrus II the Great established his authority over the area.
Ruins of an outpost Greek city founded about 325 BC were discovered at Ay Khanom, at the confluence of the Amu and Kowkcheh rivers.
In about 304 BC the territory south of the Hindu Kush was ceded to the Maurya dynasty of northern India.
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 Communication - Undergraduate Catalog | Western Illinois University
BC 322 or 327; and BC 422 or 426 or 427: 6-8 s.h.
BC 221, 223, 321, and either 322 or 327: 12-13 s.h.
Prerequisites: BC 321 or consent of instructor; Eng 180 and 280.
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 Second (Great) Samnite War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
At first the Roman arms were so successful that in 321 BC the Samnites sued for peace.
In 308 BC the Etruscans sued for peace which was granted on severe terms and in 304 BC the Samnites obtained peace on terms probably severe but not crushing.
During these same years Rome organized a rudimentary navy, constructed its first military roads (construction of the Via Appia was begun in 312 BC and of the Via Valeria in 306), and increased the size of its annual military levy as seen from the increase of annually elected military tribunes from 6 to 16.
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 History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part VIII, by Risto Stefov
In the spring of 327 BC, while his army stood at the Hindu Kush contemplating the sight of the eastern edge of the world, Alexander meticulously planned the next step of his campaign.
It was July 325 BC, when Alexander arrived at the Indus delta and camped for a rest at the city of Patala.
He was not yet thirty-three when his life was snatched away, not in a glorious battle by the enemy's sword, but by malaria, a mere microscopic parasite, a terrible way for the greatest conqueror of conquerors to die.
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 323 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
323 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC 324 BC - 323 BC - 322 BC 321 BC 320 BC 319 BC 318 BC
His generals--Antigonus, Antipater, Seleucus, Ptolemy, Eumenes and Lysimachus--fight over control of the vast Macedonian Empire he leaves behind.
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 Magadha and Ashoka Maurya
The Nanda throne was overthrown by Candragupta Maurya in 321 BC, who developed Pataliputra as his capital.  Candragupta took advantage of the disorder precipitated by Alexander of Macedon’s raid on the Panjab (327-325 BC), and occupied that western heartland of Brahmanism.  He gave much support to
Candragupta’s son, Bindusara, extended Mauryan control across the Deccan, as far south as the Kauveri.  At his death in 272 BC, the extreme south was ready for capitulation, and Devanamapriya Priyadasi (Ashoka Maurya) inherited the Empire.
232 BC), most of the subcontinent (from the Makran Coast in the west, and north to the Hindu Kush, eastwards beyond the Ganges Delta, and south to the Kaveri River) came under Mauryan rule, and the influence of Buddhism.
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 320s BC Information - TextSheet.com
320s BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Years: 329 BC 328 BC 327 BC 326 BC 325 BC 324 BC 323 BC 322 BC 321 BC 320 BC
Following the death of Alexander the Great, his empire disintegrates as his generals fight each other for control in a war that lasts for decades.
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 500 BC- 0 AD
215 BC: Hannibal is defeated by the Roman, Marcellus, at Nola in southern Italy.
203-201 BC: Africa: HAnnibal is recalled to Carthage to repel a Roman invasion by Scipio.
44 BC: Caesar is assassinated by a group of Romans led by Brutus and Cassius.
www.westmifflinmoritz.com /Timeline/Timeline%20500BC-0.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Hellenistic India and the Mauryan Empire
In 327 BC Alexander the Great entered the borders of India with his army hoping to conquer the great eastern continent that had been a fabulous country of legend to the Greeks since at least the time of Herodotos.
By the time Seleukos I Nikator made his own attempt to annex India in 305 BC the Mauryan Empire of Chandragupta encompassed most of modern Pakistan and India north of the Vindhya mountain range.
In 271 BC a brother of Bindusara, Ashoka Vardhana (271-232 BC), claimed the imperial title at Pataliputra, becoming the next great ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
www.seleukids.org /mauryanempire.htm   (719 words)

  
 A timeline of ancient India
327 BC : Alexander of Macedonia invades the Indus valley
150 BC : the "Kama" sutra is composed
100 BC : the Bhagavata Gita is composed
www.scaruffi.com /politics/indians.html   (2255 words)

  
 Roxane, Greece, ancient history
In 320 BC she and her son were taken to Macedonia by Antipater as symbols of the empire of Alexander.
When Antipater died in 319 BC she fled with her son to her mother-in-law Olympias in Epirus.
In 316 BC Kassander captured her and murdered Olympias.
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- Victoria, BC : Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2000.
MASSEY, N.W.D. Geological Compilation of the Similkameen Coal Basins, Southwestern BC: Tertiary Geology.
MASSEY, N.W.D. Geological Compilation of the Merritt Coal Basin, Southwestern BC: Tertiary Geology.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He wanted everything, so in the spring of the year 327 BC, he could be seen on the mountainous slopes of Hindu-Kush, somewhere between Pakistan and the Nuristan Afghanistan.
Thus, on approximately 21st of May of the year 237 BC, on a sunny weather, on the river Jhelum (Hydaspes), swollen with the melted snow and the Himalayan glaciers, Alexander built a floating bridge, surprising Porus' son, who thought that 2,000 people and 50 chariots would strike terror into the Macedonians.
Now, after 1700 years (327 BC), the valley witnessed another massacre; Porus escaped with his life.
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 327 on Almondnet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Roxana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Roxana (Bactrian: Roshanak, meaning "little star") wife of Alexander the Great, was born in the year 327 BC although the date remains uncertain.
She bore Alexander a posthumus son called Alexander IV Aegus, after Alexander's sudden death at Babylon in 323 BC.
As Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Macedonian empire, he was murdered along with Roxana c.
www.city-search.org /ro/roxana.html   (258 words)

  
 The Atlantis That Could Have Been: A Lost Civilization on the Southeast Asian Peninsula, Circa 25,125 BC- 13,875 BC?
Approximately 18,000 BC- 14,000 BC: The masters of the peninsula possibly rename themselves the Asvin; they utilize obsolete bits of Kerguelen knowledge to build their own airships from scratch, and create a long-lived secret society to work against the Kerguelen
Approximately 9,500 BC- 9,000 BC: The final act: The inexorable rise in sea levels over generations finally convince the remaining desperate and impoverished Asvin to abandon their homeland; the Asvin use nuclear weapons to destroy the Rama Empire and its allies
Approximately 9,500 BC(?)- 1,300 AD(?): The megaliths of Lore Lindu in Indonesia may be built now by a civilization which will remain unknown to human science as of 2001 AD
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 BBC - History - Alexander the Great: Hunting for a New Past
To illustrate this, at the Pella Archaeological Museum in Macedonia there is a beautiful pebble mosaic, which is thought to depict Alexander in pursuit of danger and excitement - a mosaic that originally adorned a floor in a luxurious Hellenistic-period house, the so-called House of Dionysus.
In one of these incidents, the offender was a member of Alexander's own royal retinue, one Dimnus, who received humiliating punishment for his supposed presumptuousness.
It has been said that there was a direct connection between this punishment and Dimnus's alleged plotting against Alexander's life in 327 BC.
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