Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: 334 BCE


Related Topics

In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  Rel 101: Understanding the Bible: Significant Dates
445 BCE Nehemiah, cupbearer to Artaxerxes the Persian emperor, is appointed governor of Judah.
428 BCE (possibly 458 or even 398) The Persians appoint Ezra "scribe of the law of the god of heaven" (Ezra 7:12) to assist in the Jewish restoration.
334 BCE Alexander crosses the Rubicon and extends the Greek empire.
www.aarweb.org /syllabus/syllabi/r/rennie/rel151/dates.htm   (584 words)

  
  Ancient Districts of Anatolia and Asia Minor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In the 7th and 6th centuries BCE the cities of Ionia were involved in a series of wars with the kings of Lydia, to whom Ionia yielded a nominal submission.
Early in the 1st millennium BCE it is believed to have comprised the greater part of the Anatolian Peninsula, but at the time of the Persian invasion in the 6th century BCE it was limited to the districts known as Lesser Phrygia and Greater Phrygia.
On his overthrow in 66 BCE by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/ancient_districts.htm   (2731 words)

  
 Anatolia: Halicarnassus: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Idriaeus (351-344 BCE)- he died of disease and was succeeded by his sister and wife Ada (who later became Queen of Alinda), but she was expelled by her brother Pixodarus, who threw in his lot with the Persians inviting in a Persian Satrap Othontapates (Orontobates?) This satrap was ruling when Alexander arrived in 334.
In 500 BCE the tyrant of Mylasa was Oliatus, son of Ibanollis.
In 167 BCE they revolted from the Rhodians and were soon thereafter declared free by the Romans once more.Under the Pax Romana Mylasa flourished and brought under her control in the name of 'Sympolity' the cities of Euromos, Chalcetor, Hydae, Olympos and Labraynda, and their citizenry were alloted to her own tribes.
www.juyayay.com /outline/anatolia/politics03.html   (1916 words)

  
 Anatolia: Hellenic and Roman Times: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Alexandria Troas- founded in 300 BCE by Antigonus I - it was originally called Antigonia and soon thereafter conquered by Lysimachus, King of Macedonia.
(167 BCE) the Roman Senate proclaimed Lycia and Caria to be free.
Byzantium capitulates to Alexander II of Macedon 334 BCE
www.juyayay.com /outline/anatolia/politics07.html   (597 words)

  
 Greco-Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 125 BCE, the northern Indo-European Yuezhi nomads (the future Kushans, promoters of the Mahayana faith) took control of the Bactrian territory, and displaced the remaining Greco-Bactrians to the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent.
However, contacts were kept with his Greek neighbours in the Seleucid Empire, Chandragupta received the daughter of the Seleucid king Seleucus I after a peace treaty, and several Greeks, such as the historian Megasthenes, resided at the Mauryan court.
Intense westward physical exchange at that time along the Silk Road is confirmed by the Roman craze for silk from the 1st century BCE to the point that the Senate issued, in vain, several edicts to prohibit the wearing of silk, on economic and moral grounds.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greco-Buddhism   (3870 words)

  
 Troy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The poem was attributed by the Greeks to a blind poet called Homer, and was probably composed in the 8th or 9th centuries BCE, although it contains older material.
This is shown by the fact that Alexander the Great and his companion Hephaestion visited the site in 334 BCE and made sacrifices at the alleged tombs of the Homeric heroes Achilles and Patroclus.
Possible evidence of a battle was also found in the form of arrowheads found in layers dated to the early 12th century BCE.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/troy.html   (1393 words)

  
 alex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Persian satraps of Asia put together an army, but they were defeated at the battle of Granicus.
328 BCE - Alexander and his army came to Sogdiana, where he married Roxanne, the daughter of the Sogdianan king.
The Athenians and their allies defeated the Macedonians, but were defeated in turn by Macedonian reinforcements.
medialdea.net /historyguy80538/alex.htm   (507 words)

  
 Chronofile: BCE Section-09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 332 BC-331 BCE, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the "son of Zeus" by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
King Perdiccas of Macedonia was killed in a battle with the Illyrians in 359 BCE and the twenty-two year old Phillip convinced the Macedonian leaders to recognize him as king during the crisis instead of the infant heir (his nephew).
In 168 BCE, the resistance of the Hasmoneans to the efforts of Antiochus IV, The Seleucid, to Hellenize and re-establish an idol-worshiping polytheism reached a peak.
hometown.aol.com /eilatlog/chronofile/timeBCE-09.html   (5009 words)

  
 Pergamon History | ema_04_package.xml   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The kingdom of Pergamon surrendered to Alexander of Macedon in 334 BCE and after Alexander's death in 323 BCE was claimed by Lysimachus, one of Alexander's generals, in 301 BCE.
Philetaerus ruled over the kingdom from 282 to 263 BCE; his successor, his nephew Eumenes I, governed until 241 BCE and left a wealthy kingdom to his cousin Attalus I, founder of the Attalid dynasty that controlled the city-state until 133 BCE.
From the second century BCE, aqueducts made of earthenware pipes were constructed to supply drinking water; that from the spring at Madradag Hill was made up of 240,000 separate clay pipes.
www.bookrags.com /history/pergamon-ema-04   (874 words)

  
 Geography of Iran: History of Balkh (Bactria)
In 356 BCE, in Macedonia was born, to king Philip and Olympia's daughter Ophan Epirote prince, a son who was destined to over throw the feared Persia.
In 334 BCE, Alexander's 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry in the battle of Grunicus won a decisive battle and set the stage to conquer Asia minor.
In 328 BCE, while preparing for the conquest of Arabia, he died of malarial fever at the age of 32, in the Babylon desert.
www.iranchamber.com /geography/articles/balkh.php   (2046 words)

  
 The Original Eve
1529 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thermuthis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
945-715 BCE Reign of Dynasty XXII; Kushites and Canaanites (Hittites and Phoenicians) establish a large number of ports on the North African shore, and on the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and western Sicily and on the shore of Spain.
327 BCE At Makaranda in Samarkand, Persia, during a drunken rage Alexander murders Cleitus Niger, the African King of Bactria, foster brother of Alexander and commander of the "royal squadron" of the Greek/Macedonian armies under Phillip and Alexander.
www.stewartsynopsis.com /original_eve.htm   (3975 words)

  
 Rel 101: Understanding the Bible: Significant Dates
336 BCE Philip is assassinated and Alexander inherits the empire.
334 BCE Alexander crosses the Hellespont and extends the Greek empire.
54-53 BCE Crassus, the Roman consul for Syria, including what later became known as “Syria Palaestina,” pillaged the area, including the Temple in Jerusalem, but shortly after was defeated and killed by a much smaller Parthian force.
www.westminster.edu /staff/brennie/dates.htm   (713 words)

  
 FROM SHESHBAZZAR & ZERUBBABEL 539 B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In 334 BCE he crossed the Hellespont into Asia, and 333 BCE, defeated Darius at the Battle of Issus, finally cornering him two years later at Gaugamela near Arbela, east of the river Tigris.
The large indemnity that he was forced to pay them (along with the loss of most of Asia Minor, his navy and his war elephants) lead to his death three years later when he was killed trying to rob a temple in Elam in order to pay this debt.
In 153 BCE Demetrius I was threatened by Alexander Balas   (150-145).
www.chiswick.demon.co.uk /Mcbes.htm   (3239 words)

  
 Tell el-Far'ah - Archaeology Timeline
The attempted revolt of Josiah's son Jehoiakim in 600 BCE against the Babylonians resulted in the destruction of Judah and began the forced exile of its elite to Babylon; thus beginning the period of the Babylonian Exile.
In 539 BCE Cyrus II entered Babylon, thus ending the period of the Babylonian exile and ushering in a new period of prosperity and reconstruction within the region of the Eastern Mediterranean under the Persians.
The conquests of the Macedonian military leader Alexander beginning in 334 BCE with the Battle of Issus, brought an end to Persian control of the Eastern Mediterranean and began a new period, the Early Hellenistic.
farahsouth.cgu.edu /timeline/main.htm   (3466 words)

  
 A Brief History of Persian Empire
In the 17th century BCE when the Kassites began to take over Babylon, they also dominated Elam, as Aryans came through Iran on their way to India bringing Indo-Iranian languages in the first half of the second millennium BCE.
In 465 BCE Xerxes was assassinated in the royal bedchamber by a conspiracy led by Artabanus, Megabyzus, and the eunuch chamberlain Aspamitres.
In 338 BCE while Philip of Macedonia was on his way to defeating the Athenians and Thebans at Charoneia, Ochus was poisoned by his physician by order of the eunuch Bagoas.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/brief_history_of_persian_empire.htm   (7545 words)

  
 africanfront.com (AUF)
1518 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thutmosis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
Memnon, the African king of Persia (and brother to Emathion, king of Arabia) arrives from Susa with 200,000 African troops to defend Troy and is killed by Achilles.
671 BCE Esarhaddon speeds across Sinai with his camel cavalry and meets the Kushite and Egyptian forces of Taharka in the eastern Delta; Taharka is defeated and withdraws from Tanis to Memphis.
www.africanfront.com /calendar.php   (7820 words)

  
 [No title]
Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, Praxiteles, From the Temple of Hera, Olympia (330 BCE)
Inner Court of the King's Royal Apartments, Palace of King Minos, Knossos (1600 BCE)
Painted Stone Sarcophagus from a Chamber-Tomb near the Palace of Hagia Triada (1400 BCE)
eawc.evansville.edu /pictures/grpage.htm   (1092 words)

  
 EAWC: The Complete Chronology
Most begin their political histories as monarchies, evolve to oligarchies, are overthrown during the age of the tyrants (650-500 BCE) and eventually establish democracies in the sixth and fifth centuries.
He is condemned to death in 399 BCE on the charges of corrupting the youth and introducing new gods into Greek thought.
Both Epicurus (342-270 BCE) and Zeno, the Stoic (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea), believe in an individualistic and materialistic philosophy.
eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/index2.htm   (6231 words)

  
 New Testament Chronology - Calendars from the Exile to the First Century BCE
In the fifth century BCE the Exile calendar of the Jews was for a time identical with the Babylonian calendar.
Then, by the end of the fourth century BCE the Macedonian calendar of the Seleucid Era was supposed identical with the Babylonian calendar, except that the Syro-Macedonian version began the new year in the fall, Dios 1.
First Maccabees reads: "In the year 170, (142 BCE) the yoke of the Gentiles was lifted from Israel, and the people began to write as the dating formula in bills and contracts, `In the first year, under Simon, high priest, commander, and chief of the Jews.'" (1 Macc.
www.doig.net /NTC02.htm   (7274 words)

  
 Corinthian order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest known example of a Corinthian column is in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in Arcadia, ca 450 – 420 BCE.
It is not part of the order of the temple itself, which has a Doric colonnade surrounding the termple and an Ionic order within the cella enclosure.
A more famous example, and the first documented use of the Corinthian order on the exterior of a structure, is the circular Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, erected ca 334 BCE.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Corinthian_order   (980 words)

  
 What are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
There were a number of temples built to the Ephesan fertility goddess Artemis all on the same spot, including in 600 BCE by the architect Cherisphron, 550 BCE by the architect Theodorus, and one by the architect Scopas of Paros that was under construction when Alexander the Great visited Ephesus in 333 BCE.
Although it survived the conquest of Alexander the Great in 334 BCE and pirate attacks in 62 and 58 BCE, a series of earthquakes beginning in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries reduced it to its base.
Mausolus of Halicarnassus conquered the island in 357 BCE, and it fell to the Persians in 340 BCE and was taken by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE.
www.wisegeek.com /what-are-the-seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world.htm   (799 words)

  
 The Mariners' Museum | EXPLORATION through the AGES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Alexander appointed him Satrap of Lycia and Pamphylia in 334-333 BCE, one of the new king’s earliest appointments.
In 328 BCE, Nearchus was recalled from his post to rejoin Alexander’s forces in Bactria and was sent on a reconnaissance mission to mainly learn about elephants.
In 326 BCE, Alexander made him the admiral of a fleet of ships he wanted built at Hydaspes.
www.mariner.org /exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=100   (678 words)

  
 The Babylonian Exile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Upon arriving in Babylonia around 587 BCE the 4,600 (give or take a couple thousand) cream-of-the-crop Judeans did a double-take Babylonia was one of the most opulent civilizations which the world had ever seen.
In the 440's BCE the Persian emperor Artaxerxes I appointed his cupbearer (a high counselor in the Persian court) Nehemiah to be governor of Judah.
In 301 BCE the country was finally conquered by Ptolemy I, the ruler of Egypt, and remained part of the Ptolemaic kingdom until 200 BCE.
facweb.furman.edu /~ateipen/Religion12/Babylonian-Exile.htm   (5059 words)

  
 Greek Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From around 3000 BCE to 850 BCE kings descended from Zeus ruled the various tribes.
476 BCE: Rhetoric was "invented" in Syracuse by Corax and imported to the Greek mainland by his student Tisias.
Socrates (470-399 BCE) Attacked the sophists through the writing of his student Plato (427-347 BCE), whose dialogues used Socrates as the shrewdest and most eloquent participant.
faculty.tamu-commerce.edu /bolin/eng333greek.html   (356 words)

  
 I, Daniel by Robert Riggs
In 301 BCE, Seleucus joined a successful confederacy against Antigonus I, the newest King of Macedonia, and as a reward, Seleucus was granted a large part of Asia Minor and the whole of Syria.
Futhermore, the line of commercial traffic that went along the Nile to and from Alexandria, had a rival in the line of trade that went from the Persian Gulf across Arabia to Gaza, and it was to the advantage of the King of the South to control both.
In 242-241 BCE, Seleucus was able to deliver Damascus and Orthosia on the Phoenician coast, that were being besieged by the Egyptians.
www.bci.org /prophecy-fulfilled/id2.htm   (11494 words)

  
 I, DANIEL (Robert F. Riggs)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
An insurrection by Babylon in 521 BCE led to the destruction of the walls of Babylon by Darius, and, by the fourth century BCE, the cultural identity of Chaldea was altered forever.
Alexander's conquest of Persia in 334 BCE and his untimely death eleven years later produced several centuries of troubles for Judea and, indeed, for the whole Near East.
Furthermore, the line of commercial traffic that went along the Nile to and from Alexandria, had a rival in the line of trade that went from the Persian Gulf across Arabia to Gaza, and it was to the advantage of the King of the South to control both.
markfoster.tripod.com /idaniel.html   (18546 words)

  
 Troy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This is shown by the fact that Alexander the Great and his companion Hephaestion visited the site in 334 BCE and made sacrificesat the alleged tombs of the Homeric heroes Achilles and Patroclus.
Eratosthenes said 1184 BCE, Herodotus said about 1250BCE, Douris said 1334 BCE.
The archaeological layer known as Troy VII, which has beendated on the basis of pottery styles at 1275-1240 BCE, is the most often cited candidate to have been the Troy of Homer.
www.therfcc.org /troy-15581.html   (1290 words)

  
 Turkey Substates
Artemisia is said to have returned to Halicarnassus and ruled till her own son was of age, her kingdom prospering from her good relations with Persia.
Artemisia's popularity and fame was such that many of the wives of the Kings of Halicarnassus were named after her till well into the 4th century BCE.
About 115 BCE, she was deposed and thrown into prison by her son.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /turkey_substates.htm   (981 words)

  
 Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
450,000 BCE (conjecture) The Annunaki, led by Enki, arrive and a colony, is established in Southern Mesopotamia.
,000 BCE (conjecture) Ziusudra, possibly the figure that Noah was based on, and a servant of Enki, begins his reign.
10,000——9,000 BCE (conjecture) Both the Annunkai and the Danaan retreat further and further from direct involvement with humankind, even though Enlil still works behind the scenes, influencing different cultures such as the precursors of the Sumerians and the early Egyptians.
www.jamesaxler.com /outlanders/chronology.htm   (15913 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.