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  Roman Legions
Starting with the traditional founding of Rome in 753 BCE, and continuing through the legendary reigns of the seven Kings of Rome, the Roman military consisted of a citizen army, an army of non-professional citizen soldiers who were drafted in times of war.
In 225 BCE, almost two hundred years after the invasion of 390, a Gallic force of 50,000 infantry and 20,000 horsemen which had again moved down the Italian Peninsula was devastated by this new Republican army's tactics and weaponry.
With the military reforms of Camillus in the early 4th century BCE, a clear chain of command was established, with centurions of several grades and military tribunes, from the Equestrian class, who were in the military to advance their political careers.
www.lifeinitaly.com /history/roman-legion.asp   (1495 words)

  
  General Essay on Chinese Religions
Tradition speaks of the origins of Chinese culture lying in the 3rd millennium BCE with the Hsia dynasty.
The religion of the Shang was principally characterised by the use of oracle bones for divination and the development of the cult of ancestors.
Under the Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220CE), the T'ang dynasty (618-907 CE), and the Sung dynasty (960-1127CE) Confucian teaching was used for public examinations.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/china/geness.html   (2739 words)

  
 A high-frequency custom CMOS S/390 microprocessor
The clock rate of the processor and BCE is twice as fast as that of the L2.
In either case, the BCE signals the I-unit, and the pipeline is extended until the miss is resolved.
The BCE and R-unit are not duplicated, but are protected from hardware faults by parity and ECC (double-error detection, single-error correction) in the data flow, and consistency checks and local duplication in the controls.
www.research.ibm.com /journal/rd/414/webb.html   (7536 words)

  
 History of the Temple of Vesta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the time of its foundation in the legendary reign of Numa Pompilius (7th century BCE), the Temple of Vesta was supposedly a simple round Italic hut, made of wattle and daub, with a thatched roof.
In 210 BCE, it was saved from another fire that destroyed many of the buildings around it by thirteen slaves, who were set free as a reward.
The temple of the early imperial period was a tholos (round building) with a shallow dome that retained the figure with scepter and patera from the earlier period.
www.vroma.org /~bspaeth/vesta/vestahistory.html   (308 words)

  
 Overheads - LIT 102 - Spring 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
56 BCE: the conference at Luca: the Triumvirate was renewed.
53 BCE: Crassus was defeated by the Parthians in the battle of Carrhae and lost his life.
44 BCE the Ides of March: killed by a conspiracy of aristocratic partisans led by Cassius and Brutus.
web.syr.edu /~dhmills/lit102/102ovrhd.htm   (2083 words)

  
 Mohism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
During the fourth century BCE the movement was strong enough to rival Confucianism.
During the third century BCE the movement went into decline, all but disappearing by the time of the unification of China in 221 BCE.
Little interest was paid to the Mo-tzu until the arrival of Christianity in China, when scholars explored the similarities between Moist and Christian teaching on universal love.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/china/mohism.html   (542 words)

  
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390 BCE Battle of Clusium; Celts sack all Rome except Capitol.
133 BCE Galatia bequeathed to Rome as a semi-autonomous Celtic province.
44 BCE Julius Caesar assassinated, succeeded by Octavius.
www.iit.edu /~phillips/personal/lore/timeline.html   (515 words)

  
 history1
By 600 to 500 BCE Celtic Culture existed from Ireland and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to Turkey and Northern Greece in the East.
In 225 BCE, the Romans defeated the Cisalpine Celts at the Battle of Telamon.
In 125 BCE Rome conquered southern Gaul, and apart from the set back of the defeat of the Roman General Arausio in 105 BCE, they continued to expand into `Celtic` lands.
www.geocities.com /mhaille21/history1.html   (1351 words)

  
 Timeline of Celtic Establishment in Europe
1600 BCE 1000 BCE Evidence of a Proto-Celtic Unetice or Urnfield culture in Slovakia circa.
390 BCE Celts invaded Rome 279 BCE Celts invaded Greece 270 BCE Celts moved in to Galatia (Central Turkey).
52 BCE Julius Ceasar defeats Celts in Gaul.
www.tylwythteg.com /tylwythteg/timeline.html   (380 words)

  
 early_roman_history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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)

  
 CTCWeb Glossary: T (taberna to tyranny)
- a four horse chariot race established as an Olympic event in 680 BCE with a length of twelve laps around the hippodrome; there was also a tethrippon for foals established as an Olympic event in 384 BCE.
- a large theater in Rome dedicated in 13 BCE by Augustus in honor of his deceased nephew.
Periander asks Thrasybulus how he to keep his power; Thrasybulus responds by cutting off the tallest ears of corn in a corn field; Periander understands Thrasybulus' action to mean that he should kill or exile his potential political opponents.
ablemedia.com /ctcweb/glossary/glossaryt.html   (1510 words)

  
 Early Roman Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Establishment of Consuls as Leaders of Rome (509 BCE)
Invasion and Eventual Sack of Rome by the Gauls (390 BCE)
Rome vs the Samnites (327 - 290 BCE)
www.boundaryschools.com /perley/kencon/pages/earlyrepublic.html   (168 words)

  
 History Ancient Coins Kings Emperors Germanic Invasion Lifestyle
The Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies ruled Egypt from the death of Alexander to that of Cleopatra in 30 BCE.
Maues was an Indo-Scythian king in the early 1st century BCE.
Azilises was king of the Indo-Scythians in the mid 1st century BCE.
www.nok-benin.co.uk /history_europe3.htm   (694 words)

  
 Eastern Philosophy, Glossary of Terms (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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)

  
 Livy 2: Scope of the History
This part of the History of Rome from its foundation was completed in c.26 (it mentions Octavian's new name Augustus but does not mention the closing of the temple of Janus in 25).
The sixty-three years from the First Punic War to the end of the Second have taken up as many volumes as the 488 years from the foundation of the city to the consulship of Appius Claudius, who began the first hostilities against the Carthaginians.
Livy uses seven books to describe the successes of Caesar; the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE is the subject of Book 111.
www.livius.org /li-ln/livy/livy2.html   (2504 words)

  
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He created a school around 520 BCE in Croton (southern Italy) that emphasized communal living, gender equality, vegetarianism, mystery initiations, Orphic poetry, harmonics, music therapy, the monochord, geometry, arithmetic, and cosmology.
Harmony: ideas and souls are related by sympathy, resonance, or musical ratio.\ We may recognize the Pythagorean theory of reincarnation as derived from the Egyptian.
Around 390 BCE, Plato had visited Western Greece (Southern Italy and Sicily), encountered Pythagorean communities, met Archytas of Tarentum, the great Pythagorean, and adopted Pythagoreanism as a second influence.
www.ralph-abraham.org /talks/dusseldorf/2-plato.rtf   (927 words)

  
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Julius Caesar made him ruler of Palestine in 55 BCE and he became king of the Jews with the aid of Marc Antony in 37 BCE.
Indian epic poem composed between 200 BCE and 200 CE, it concerns a dynastic struggle of the 9th century BCE.
Originally composed in Hebrew about 200 BCE by Jesus ben Sirach, it was probably translated into Greek in about 132 BCE by his grandson.
www.well.com /user/aquarius/authlist.htm   (3717 words)

  
 Museum of Classical Archaeology guidebook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Hellenistic Styles (Bays G, H and J) Hellenistic sculpture (conventionally from 323 to 27 BCE) is still more confusing to students than Late Classical.
Technical skill increased, looser poses and even free -standing groups were commoner, the range of subjects spread from the sentimental to the brutal, and portraiture became more individual.
The goddess would have originally have held a polished shield in which she was gazing at her reflection.
www.classics.cam.ac.uk /museum/guidehellen.html   (765 words)

  
 history
511 BCE: The Saka era brought Sind from Iran by the two Saka families, the Kshaharatas and the Kardamakas, soon after the conquests to the west of the Indus by the first Achaemmenid emperor Cyrus(558-530 BCE).
315 BCE: The accession of Chandragupta I (known to the Greeks as Sandrocottus), founding the dynasty of the Imperial Guptas at Pataliputra (Gk Palibothra) and initiating the Gupta era in the year of his accession which seems to have tallied with his marriage to the Lichchabi princess Kumardebi.
285 BCE: The accession of Samudragupta (known to the Greeks as Amitrachates, Sanskrit Amitrachchhetta, meaning ‘Mower of enemies’, akin to the title given to Samudragupta in later Gupta inscriptions, Sarbarajochchhetta, ‘Mower of all Kings’).
www.muktadhara.net /page13.html   (4526 words)

  
 Camillus
The Romans made Marcus Furius Camillus dictator in 396 BCE and, with the full executive powers that went with the title, he finally brought the Etruscans to their knees.
On July 18 in 390 BCE, the Roman army was defeated just 11 miles north of Rome.
Most Romans retreated to the hills, but a few elderly senators remained in the Curia (Senate House) where they were found and killed by the invading Gauls.
www.dl.ket.org /latinlit/historia/people/camillus01.htm   (473 words)

  
 Druïdism ...some facts...
By 450 BCE they had expanded into Spain; by 400 BCE they were in Northern Italy, and by 270 BCE, they had migrated into Galatia (central Turkey).
By 200 BCE, they had occupied the British Isles, Brittany, much of modern France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, North West Spain, and their isolated Galatia settlement in Turkey.
Most of our information comes from Greek and Roman writers, who may well have been heavily biased (the Celts invaded Rome in 390 BCE and Greece in 279 BCE).
wizardmagazine.tripod.com /international/id19.html   (816 words)

  
 The Dark Ages / The Middle Ages / Medieval Europe: - part 2
To begin with the agricultural revolution began to take place on the European continent around 6000 BCE It was introduced by immigrants from the east and south.
In 700 BCE, the peoples of Central Europe (Austria) entered the Iron Age and the first major culture and ethnic group called the Celtic (pronounced "Keltik") developed.
The Celts had even sacked Rome in 390 BCE and successfully invaded and sacked several Greek cities in 280 BCE.
home.att.net /~u100482000/homeworknovemberdecember/middleagespart2dec042000a.htm   (5224 words)

  
 repub
The need to improve Roman military strength was underlined when the city of Rome was attacked and briefly occupied in 390 BCE by Gauls (Celts) from the North.
Recognize this achievement - as a result of these changes, by 290 BCE the Roman Republic was the most inclusive political system seen up to that point in the history of civilization.
The end result in 200 BCE was a Republic that was inclusive and open to new citizen involvement across all classes.
www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist151/repub.htm   (1311 words)

  
 McManus Images Index Roman Coins: Republic and Principate
In 390 BCE, the sacred geese of Juno warned (monere) the Romans about an impending attack by Gauls, hence her temple on the Capitoline was dedicated to Juno Moneta.
Cornelius Sulla Felix, whose authority is symbolized by a curule chair flanked by a lituus and a wreath, and Q.
Pompeius Rufus, whose curule chair is flanked by an arrow and a laurel branch.
www.vroma.org /images/mcmanus_images/indexcoins.html   (3815 words)

  
 - LEARNERS: BURNING LIBRARIES (BCE) -
  It was destroyed in 397 BCE by Dionysus the Elder, despot of Syracuse.
  In 373 BCE, the ancient city of Helike on the Gulf of Corinth, was destroyed by an earthquake and submerged by a tsunami.
  In 48 BCE, the inhabitants of Alexandria blockaded Caesar.
peaceworld.freeservers.com /130BURNINGLIBRARIES1.htm   (9875 words)

  
 Glossary
The period centering around 500 BCE, encompassing the years between 800 and 200 BCE.
It was the beginning of man's search for the ultimate nature of reality, and many great minds scattered throughout the world were independently studying toward understanding the universe.
It appears to be a system used to impose a structured form of social obligation upon society, and is incomprehensible, even to its adherents.
www.reasoned.org /glossary.htm   (2248 words)

  
 Greek Silver coins
Massalia 4th century BCE, AR obol (0.57 gm) 12x10 mm = see my comments on the Miletos coin on the next page.
Lucania, Paestrum; æ 15, 268-89 BCE (3.57 gm.); Sextans
Rev: Anchor with crayfish and A in angles.
tjbuggey.ancients.info /Greek.html   (1595 words)

  
 From Heroes to Legions: Warriors of the Xenaverse in History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The 4th century BCE saw a major shift in the balance of power.
By the 1st century BCE the Sarmatians dominated the steppes northeast of the Black Sea.
The Roman army of the 1st centuries BCE and AD was at its peak as an offensive weapon.
www.whoosh.org /issue51/shaughnessy2a.html   (3202 words)

  
 Roman Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
, 488 BCE, vowed after Coriolanus was driven off by the women of Rome.
18 XV Kal Sext C: Dies Ater ambush of the Fabii at Cremona, 477 BCE.
Dies Alliensis, day of ill omen, Roman defeat by Gauls on the River Allia, 390 BCE.
www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Religionis/caljul.php   (795 words)

  
 Week 2 slides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Etrusco-Italic bronze, the "Capitoline Brutus" 3rd -2nd century BCE
The Lapis Niger, a slab of fl stone beneath which is a shrine with the oldest Latin inscription.
Shrine of the Lapis Niger, with inscription of 6th-7th century BCE
www.personal.kent.edu /~jlarson/romanachievement/week2slides.html   (238 words)

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