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 In General -Country, Neolithic Age
In the late eighth century BC by which time Phoenician enterprise had renewed early ties with the Syria coast, the island was divided into a series of independent kingdoms, tributaries of the Assyrian Empire.
It was conquered by the Egyptians in the sixth century BC and held until 525 BC, when, retaining its petty kingdoms, it became absorbed into the
In 499/8 BC a revolt to assist the Greeks of Ionia in their struggle against Persia was suppressed.
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 timeline.html
B.C. On the BC side of the timeline, the rule for moving from the year itself to the century is the same:
century BC 1 BC is the year before Christ's birth on the timeline; however, it is the last year of the 1
391 BC = is a year in the beginning of the 4
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  Chronology of the Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
508—290 BC - Conquest of Central Italy by the Romans.
58—51 BC - Caesar's conquest of all of Gaul.
53 BC - The Parthians defeat a Roman army at the battle of Carrhae in which Crassus was killed.
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464 BC - The consuls are A. Postumius Albus Regillensis and Sp.
284 BC - The Gallic raiders are forcibly ejected from the ager Gallicus by the Romans.
170 BC - The consuls are A. Atilius Serranus and A. Hostilius Mancinus.
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 Cyprus - MSN Encarta
As early as the 14th century BC, Cyprus was colonized by the Mycenaeans, a civilization from the Greek Pelopónnesos (the southern peninsula of Greece).
Beginning with the rise of Assyria during the 8th century bc, Cyprus was controlled by each of the empires that successively dominated the eastern Mediterranean.
In 391 bc Evagoras, with the aid of Athens, led a successful revolt against Persia and temporarily made himself master of the island.
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 Rome Unleashed - City to Empire Overview
The Etruscans ruled Rome for a little over a century: the traditional dates are 616 BC for the accession of the first Etruscan king, Tarquinius Priscus, and 510 BC for the expulsion of the last, Tarquinius Superbus.
The greatest wars of the 2nd century BC were fought in the Balkans and the east Mediterranean.
Under the terms of this arrangement Caesar become consul in 59 BC and was then made governor of the two Gallic provinces, Cisalpina south of the Alps, the other Transalpina covering the southern part of modern France.
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 CHINESE LITERATURE,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Chinese literature may be divided into three major historical periods that roughly correspond to those of Western literary history: the classical period, from the 6th century bc through the 2d century ad; the medieval period, from the 3d century to the late 12th century; and the modern period, from the 13th century to the present.
The oldest examples of Chinese writing are inscriptions on bones and tortoiseshells, dating probably from the 14th century bc.
Confucianism became the orthodox teaching, establishing a classical tradition that was to last until the present century.
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 Neolithic Age -1571   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The adoption of bronze for implements and weapons, about 2500 BC, coincided with the appearance of the ox, the plough, and a plain red pottery, suggestive of Anatolian origin, of which large quantities have been found in rock-cut tombs of the period.
It was conquered by the Egyptians in the sixth century BC and held until 525 BC, when, retaining its petty kingdoms, it became absorbed into the Persian Empire.
At the division of his Empire, Cyprus passed to the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt; it became a Roman Province in 58 BC, was early converted to Christianity and on the partition of the Roman Empire fell under the rule of the Byzantine Emperor.
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 CalendarHome.com - 4th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedonia (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Darius III of Persia, last King of the Achaemenid dynasty (born 380, reigned 359–330 BC).
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 Battles
The Battle of Cumae 474 BC The Battle of the Eurymedon c.
The Battle of Elleporus 389 BC The Battle of Tegyra 385 BC The Battle of Naxos 376 BC The Battle of Leuctra 371 BC in central Greece
The Battle of Mantinea 362 BC The Battle of Tamynae 349 BC Munn, Mark H., The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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 Expeditions in Learning
The mysterious Etruscan neighbors began as the Villanovans, appearing as Balkan immigrants in the north of Italy and in Romania, and on the west coast at Tarquinii, perhaps in the tenth century BC.
Around 700 BC, the Villanovans were reinforced by new immigrants thought to have been displaced from Asia Minor.
It was only much later, in the middle of the third century BC that Romans, after campaigning in southern Italy, began to develop theatrical performances in the tradition of the Greeks.
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 Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
In 443 BC the rival general of Pericles named Thucydides was ostracized, and the leadership of Pericles for the next fifteen years was unchallenged.
In 421 BC the recalled Spartan king Pleistoanax and the Athenian general Nicias agreed on a peace for fifty years; both sides agreed to restore several cities that had been taken in the war, and all the captives were to be released.
In 410 BC Segesta requested aid from Carthage in a quarrel with Selinus, and the latter was besieged by the western Phoenicians led by the elderly Hannibal who, avenging previous Carthaginian defeats in Sicily, destroyed the city and massacred 16,000, enslaving 5,000 while 2,600 escaped to Acragas.
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 Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC Athens had been destroyed in 480 BC, but after the Persian invasion was defeated the next year, the Athenians began to rebuild their walls and to make the Piraeus a major harbor, persuaded by Themistocles, who had championed their victorious navy.
Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC Though Athens and Sparta had fought each other before, Thucydides called the 27-year conflict between the Athenian empire and the Lacedaemonians the Peloponnesian War, which he wrote in his great history was caused by the growth of Athenian power and the fear which that caused in Sparta.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
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 Odrysian Kings of Thrace   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Topalov: 490-464 BC; Χριστόπουλος mid 5th century BC Teres was the founder of the kingdom of the Odrysae.
Sitalkes died 422 BC during a campaign against the Triballian Thracians, and was succeeded by his nephew Seuthes I, son of his brother Sparadokos.
; Χριστόπουλος 437- BC (Ruler of the Kimmerian Bosporus)
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 403 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Thrasybulus leads the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans have imposed on Athens.
Thrasybulus is helped by Lysias, the Athenian orator, in arguing the case against the oligarchy.
Andocides, Athenian orator and politician, who had been implicated in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure in 415 BC of the Athenian expedition against Sicily, returns from exile under the general amnesty.
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 Asia Minor Coins - Caria (Karia)
He was succeeded by his son Maussolos, who took part in the so-called Revolt of the Satraps: Maussolos, Orontes of Armenia, Autophradates of Lydia and Datames of Cappadocia joined forces against their king, with support of the pharaohs of Egypt, Nectanebo I, Teos, and Nectanebo II.
In 188 BC, the Romans defeated the Seleukids, and divided the country between the Pergamene kingdom in the north and Rhodes in the south.
In 129 BC, the Romans decided to annex the Pergamene part of Caria, which became part of their province of Asia.
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 Kingdoms of Greece - Cyprus
The first Greek colony is believed to have been founded by traders from Arcadia about 1400 BC.
Beginning with the rise of Assyria during the 8th century BC, Cyprus was under the control of each of the empires that successively dominated the eastern Mediterranean.
391 BC The Cypriot city state of Salamis leads a revolt that temporarily unifies the island under a Cypriot king.
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 info: 391_BC
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391 BC: Information from Answers.com391 BC Centuries : 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades : 420s BC   410s BC   400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC   370s BC
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 Analysis Statistics
119/.387 0/ --- 119/.387 68/.382 51/.392 6/.500 27/.444 37/.459 58/.466 7/.571 Tucker BC........
104/.356 1/.000 103/.359 43/.302 61/.393 7/.286 29/.345 46/.413 29/.414 19/.632 Taylor BC........
103/.311 0/ --- 103/.311 62/.290 41/.341 7/.286 27/.222 30/.267 47/.447 7/.429 Reid BC..........
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 history18aearliestcivilizations4china
Chinese expansion is halted by invading bands of nomadic tribesmen (barbarians) from the north and west, causing Chinese governmental influence to withdraw from the northern and western perimeters.
The Chou continued the social and governmental pattern (bureaucracy) of the Shang government that preceded them, though as early as 800 BC this central authority was undermined by rebellious warlords at the mouth of the Yangzi River and in some of the northern provinces.
By the 6th century BC the states of Wu and Yüeh dominated much of China, leading to the “Warring States Period” (453—221 BC) that involved continual warring between the various city-states and provinces and the central Chou government.
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 396 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC
Years: 401 BC 400 BC 399 BC 398 BC 397 BC - 396 BC - 395 BC 394 BC 393 BC 392 BC 391 BC
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 About Celtic Myths
In 391 BC, the Gauls (Senones) under their chieftain Brennus(?), badly mauled the Roman army in Allia.
When Germanic tribes began their migration during the second century BC, the Celts were pressured and forced to seek refuges further west of the Rhine and south of the Danube.
According to a 1st century BC Greek poet, Parthenius, the Celts were descendants of Heracles.
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 Nabataean Travel: Chinese History
It was the religious leaders and philosophers of this period who first expressed the doctrine of the "mandate of heaven" (divine ruler-ship), the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate.
In 771 BC the Zhou court was sacked, and its king was killed by invading barbarians who were allied with rebel lords.
The first, from 770 to 476 B.C., is called the Spring and Autumn Period, after a famous historical chronicle of the time; the second is known as the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
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 Nabataean Travel: Chinese History
It was the religious leaders and philosophers of this period who first expressed the doctrine of the "mandate of heaven" (divine ruler-ship), the notion that the ruler (the "son of heaven") governed by divine right but that his dethronement would prove that he had lost the mandate.
In 771 BC the Zhou court was sacked, and its king was killed by invading barbarians who were allied with rebel lords.
The first, from 770 to 476 B.C., is called the Spring and Autumn Period, after a famous historical chronicle of the time; the second is known as the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
nabataea.net /china2.html   (3957 words)

  
 CRA, Inc. - Reports Online: The Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Radiocarbon Database: Database Page 2 of 4
510 BC Stothers and Bechtel 1987:139; Stothers and Graves 1984
480 BC Crane and Griffin 1968; Watson 1969, 1974
320 BC Crane and Griffin 1968; Watson 1969, 1974
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 Roman Republic
After this, Rome Rome was ruled by kings, initially local chieftains and then in 616 BC by Etruscan kings.
Gradually the Romans took control of the rest of Italy, although Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 391 BC.
The Punic Wars (264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 150-146 BC) were fought against Carthage for the control of Sicily and ultimately, the Mediterranean.
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 Legion XXIV - Time Line of Republican Rome
401 BC Battle of Cunaxa, First Persian Civil War, near Babylon, in which Cyrus of Persia was killed in an attempt (with a Spartan and Greek contingent) to seize the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II.
207 BC Battle of Metaurus (south of Fano on Adriatic coast of Italy), 2nd Punic War (219-202) where Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero and Roman force of 50,000 defeated a Carthginian army (50,000 with war elephants) under Hasdrubal (brother of Hannibal) and was the turning point in expelling the Carthginians from Italy.
58 BC Julius Caesar appointed Proconsul-Governor of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul and Illyricum.
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 Untitled Document
The first historical references to the people we know as the Celts occurred in the 5th century BC but the archaeological evidence extends several hundred years earlier, to the end of the Late Bronze Age.
In 391 BC a Gallic army destroyed a Roman army on the banks of the Allia River and went on to capture the city itself-- an event which shattered Roman confidence and profoundly affected later attitudes to the Celts.
The Celts of Iron Age Europe reached their zenith in the 3rd century BC, controlling territory from the Atlantic seaboard to the heart of what is now Turkey.
www.odysseyadventures.ca /courses/celts/celts_outline.htm   (875 words)

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