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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for History of Palestine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 722 BCE, the northern Kingdom of Ephraim (commonly referred to as Israel, sometimes as Samaria) was destroyed by the Assyrians, its inhabitants ("the Lost Tribes") believed to have been deported, and replaced by settlers from elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire.
In 539 BCE the Babylonians were annexed by the Persian Empire, which held Palestine until the time of Alexander the Great, who conquered Gaza and the surrounding areas in the early 330s BCE.
Following the Roman conquest in 63 BCE, the region that later became known as Palestine - first a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, after year 6 CE Roman province Iudaea (Roman province), after year 135 province Syria Palaestina - was in nearly constant revolt (see Jewish-Roman Wars).
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 Articles - History of Palestine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Around 1200 BCE the Hittite empire was conquered by allied tribes from the north.
The Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar conquered the (southern) Kingdom of Judah in 597-586 BCE, and deported the middle and upper classes of the Jews to Babylonia in the Babylonian captivity, where they flourished.
After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, his empire was partitioned, and the competing Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires occupied various portions of the eastern Mediterranean, including different parts of Palestine.
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 PS Wiki Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Zoroaster is thought to have written the Gathas, poems which have been assidiously preserved by his followers through centuries of oral transmission before the whole of the Avesta (in which the Gathas are a central portion) were commited to writing in the Parthian or Sassanian periods.
Although Zoroastrianism has a dualistic undertone, with a series of six entities accompaning Ahura Mazda, thus forming a heptad (similar in function and status to angels) that are good and constructive; and another seven that are evil and destructive, the faith is strictly monotheistic.
Usually he is placed roughly near 1000 BCE, though others give earlier estimates, while still others place him in the 6th century BCE, which would make him contemporary to the rise of the first Achaemenides.
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In its early political history the city was part of the ancient kingdom of Lydia (see map of ancient Greece and Ionian coast) until that kingdom succumbed to Persian domination in the mid-sixth century BCE.
By the beginning of the second century BCE, however, the territory had become a battleground in the struggle for power between the Seleucids and the growing hegemony of the Roman Republic which was slowly extending its way east from Italy.
Mithdidates was put down, however, in 84 BCE by the Roman general Sulla who, in the aftermath of the war, did little to improve the city’s condition and even imposed a penalty tax upon the city for revolting.
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 Crosscurrents, discussion, Spring 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rome was said to be founded in 753 BCE, and the Republic was founded in 509 BCE.
Rome was led by a king until 509 BCE, when the King Tarquinius Superbus transgressed the moral rules of the state by raping Lucretia, the wife of a noble.
Between 509-264 BCE (the start of the Punic war), the political system of Rome was organized like an oligarchical polis, dependent on the consensus of an hereditary urban elite.
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 The Origins of Bhakti
They give a date of 950 BCE for the Bharata War mentioned in the Gita.
3rd Century BCE bas relief in the Mathura museum depicting the Kansa's slaughter of the infants.
Finally, the Buddhist idea of acting without become attached to the fruits of action may have been introduced not only because it was a brilliant idea, but also to attract Buddhists back to Hinduism.
www.aarweb.org /Syllabus/syllabi/g/gier/306/krishna.htm   (568 words)

  
 Atheist Guide to the Bible
However, in the later period, from about 700 BCE, the Bible chronology becomes more reliable, as this is the time when the books were collected - the writers were writing about their own times or recent events.
Far more importantly, it provided a rallying point of cultural identity for the adherents of Yahweh, and in particular tried to make sense of their history in terms of a divine plan and a relationship between a god and his people.
For a time in the 330s BCE the conquests of Alexander the Great of Macedon swept away all the ancient empires and unified the Eastern Meditteranean under Greek rule.
www.atheistguide.com /history   (712 words)

  
 Cynosarges [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The athletic facilities, cults, educational, and military uses of the area continued from the Archaic period to the siege of Athens in 200 BCE by Philip V of Macedon, whose army encamped in Cynosarges.
By the sixth century BCE, Cynosarges functioned as a cult center for Heracles and as a gymnasium used by the nothoi or offspring of mixed Athenian/non-Athenian parentage (Demosthenes, Against Aristagoras II 214, Harpocration, Lexicon s.v.
The area was used as a camp by Philip V during his unsuccessful, but destructive siege of Athens in 200 BCE (Diodorus Siculus 28.7.1 and Livy 31.24.17-18).
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 350 BCE [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Aristotle argues for a spherical Earth using lunar eclipses and other observations.
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 300 BCE [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Reading Guides: Week Five
After a brief description of the conquests of Alexander the Great (in the 330s BCE) and the division of his empire into the three Hellenistic kingdoms, the book quickly moves to the rise of the Seleucid (Greek Syrian) King Antiochus IV (known as Epiphanes, or "[the God] has appeared") in 175 BCE.
The family that led the revolt were known as the Maccabees (a nickname that means "hammerer": see 1 Macc 2:4) and the Hasmoneans (a family name, the origins of which are uncertain).
This letter, written in Greek, probably dates from the first century BCE and explains the origins of the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible (the Septuagint).
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 Travel Guide - Online Reservation - Warsaw Accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
10,500 BCE - 8500 BCE), the Yarmukians (c.
8500 - 4300 BCE) and the Ghassulians (carbon dated c.
After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, his empire was partitioned, and the competing Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires occupied various portions of the eastern Merranean, including different parts of Palestine.
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 Introduction to the Latter Prophets
the introduction of Hellenistic culture in the 330s BCE
Most of the books called the Latter Prophets probably date from the period between the ______ and _______ centuries BCE.
Which of the following is not one of the prophets who lived at the time of the Assyrian crisis of the 8th century BCE?
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 timeline of jewish history
Infighting among the Hasmonean royal and priestly family led to the intervention of a rising superpower in the Mediterranean world, the Romans.
the Roman general Pompey entered Jerusalem in 63 BCE and settled the dispute by making Ioudaia a Roman political holding, now called Judea.
During this period, sometimes a roman governor ruled the province; from roughly 37 BCE-54 CE a series of half-Jewish "client kings" ruled Judea on behalf of the Romans.
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