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  Eleusinian mysteries
In this hall, the secret and sacred objects were shown to the initiated, and also the priestesses would reveal the vision of the holy night, which is thought to have been a fire symbolizing life after death.
In the Hellenistic age (300-150 BCE), the cult was taken over and run by the state, and two aristocratic families from Eleusis officiated (the Eumolpidae and Kerykes).
In this age, mystery cults were becoming very popular, unlike classical Greece (400s BCE) when the Eleusinian mysteries were a rare form of worship.
www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eleusinian_mysteries.html   (674 words)

  
  CONK! Encyclopedia: Timeline_of_Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
563 BCE: Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India.
220 BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, the son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya-Tissa.
400s: The kingdom of Funan (centered in modern Cambodia) begins to advocate Buddhism in a departure from Hinduism.
www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Timeline_of_Buddhism   (3242 words)

  
 ArtLex on Etruscan Art
Etruria (Etruscan), 725-700 BCE, Krater with Lid, terra cotta, height overall 48 cm, Louvre.
Etruscan, 7th century BCE, Stand (holmos) and Cauldron (lebes), impasto (terra cotta), height overall 133 cm, Louvre.
Etruscan, early 5th century BCE, Chariot Perfume-Brazier, bronze, height 30 cm, Louvre.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/etruscan.html   (776 words)

  
 Timeline of Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
563 BCE: Buddha is born in Lumbini, Ancient India.
309 BCE: Third Buddhist Council convened by Ashoka and chaired by Moggaliputta Tissa, compiled the Kathavatthu to refute the heretical views and theories held by some Buddhist sects.
100 BCE: Greek Bactrian king Milinda of Euthydemia poses questions on Buddhism to the sage Nāgasena;, who may or may not have been the same person as Nāgārjuna;.
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/t/ti/timeline_of_buddhism.html   (2948 words)

  
 Judaism - Crystalinks
400s- Numerous Jewish academies are built in Babylonia by a Jewish leader known as the "exilarch." In 495 CE, the Babylonian Talmud is written down.
The family of the Hebrew patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) is depicted in the Bible as having had its chief seat in the northern Mesopotamian town of Harran--then (mid-2nd millennium BCE) belonging to the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni.
Abraham (perhaps 19th or 18th-17th centuries BCE) did not discover this God, but entered into a new covenant relation with him, in which he was promised the land of Canaan and a numerous progeny.
www.crystalinks.com /judaism.html   (3969 words)

  
 SCTR 158 Glossary (Murphy, SCU)
400s BCE) and was compiled from several sources, all of which factors complicate the historical reliability of the account.
The Jerusalem temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587-586 BCE, rebuilt by during the restoration (see Ezra and Nehemiah), expanded by Herod the Great in 37-4 BCE, and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
The dynasty's attempts to enforce Hellenization at the cost of Jewish law and tradition was the catalyst both for the Revolt and for the composition of the Book of Daniel, and seems to have played a role in the genesis of the Dead Sea Scroll community.
www-relg-studies.scu.edu /facstaff/murphy/courses/sctr158/glossary.htm   (2419 words)

  
 World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 2| Book Review
The series is broken into four volumes covering four time periods: Antiquity -- 5000 BCE to 400s CE; The Spread of Religions and Empires -- 400s to 1400s; The Age of Discovery and Colonial Expansion -- 1400s to 1900s; and The Contemporary World –1900s to the Present.
The preface explains why the series was undertaken, why topics were chosen (emphasizing cross-cultural encounters that produced historical change on a global scale), and the scope of the series (important instances of cross-cultural contact in human history).
There is a timeline and a visual of a 5th century b.c.e.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/whc/3.2/br_dalesandro-haug.html   (1053 words)

  
 Timeline of Buddhism Article, TimelineBuddhism Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
400s BCE : Kharoṣṭhī script began to be used in Gandhara.
100s BCE : Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, theson of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya-Tissa.
400s : Earliest evidence of Buddhism in Myanmar (Pali inscriptions).
www.anoca.org /buddhist/monks/timeline_of_buddhism.html   (2991 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Timeline of Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
534 BCE: Gautama leaves his inheritance and becomes a monk.
528 BCE: Gautama claims he has attained Enlightenment, and begins his ministry.
100s BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, the son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya-Tissa.
fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Timeline_of_Buddhism   (3137 words)

  
 info: TIMELINE OF BUDDHISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
563 BCE: Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India.
400s BCE: Kharos?t?hi script began to be used in Gandhara.
150 BCE: Indo-Greek king Menander I poses questions on Buddhism to the sage Nagasena, according to the account of the Milinda Panha.
www.info-malta.com /Timeline_of_Buddhism   (3259 words)

  
 World Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
534 BCE: Gautama leaves his inheritance and becomes a ascetic.
528 BCE: Gautama attains Enlightenment, and begins his ministry.
We do not believe that this world is created and ruled by a God
www.worldencyclopedia.net /index.php?title=Timeline_of_Buddhism   (2652 words)

  
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By the 400s BCE, the rising wealth from trade transformed the structure of Athenian society and politics.
These laws freed all citizens made slaves by debt, canceled much of the debt held by common people, and widened the eligibility for public office to citizens of wealth, even if they were not of noble blood.
Smaller cities were not allowed to withdraw their membership or their payments to the League treasury, which was moved to Athens under the leadership of the popular leader of the Athenian democracy in the years between 460 BCE and 430.
www.augie.edu /dept/history/athe.htm   (1252 words)

  
 The War Between Sparta and Athens
Led by Athens and Sparta, the Greeks defeated the Persians at the battle of Salamis in 480 and at Plataea in 479 BCE.
Athens and its allies, known as the Delian League, came into conflict with the Spartans and the Peloponnesian league, and in 431 BCE war broke out between the two cities—a war based on trade routes, rivalries, and tributes paid by smaller dependent states.
The war ended in 404 BCE with the defeat of Athens and its democracy.
www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2002/lysistrata/war.html   (631 words)

  
 athe.htm
In 546 BCE, a nobleman named Pisistratus, with the support of commoners and rich non-nobles, established a "tyranny," meaning personal rule over Athens.
Another aristocrat named Cleisthenes came to power in 508 BCE after Pisistratus' son was overthrown.
Smaller cities were not allowed to withdraw their membership or their payments to the League treasury, which was moved to Athens under Pericles, the popular leader of the Athenian democracy in the years between 460 BCE and 430.
www.wright.edu /~christopher.oldstone-moore/athe.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Celt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
English Gaul(s), French Gaul(es), Latin Gallus or Galli might be from an originally Celtic ethnic or tribal name (perhaps borrowed into Latin during the early 400s BCE, Celtic expansions into Italy).
They are the result of an early borrowing (in the 4th century BCE) of the Celtic tribal name Uolcae ("Falcons" in Gaulish) into Primitive Germanic (becoming the Primitive Germanic *Walh-, "Foreigner" and the suffixed form *Walhisk-).
The Uolcae were one of the Celtic peoples that barred, for two centuries, the southward expansion of the German tribes in central Germany on the line of the Hartz mountains and into Saxony and Silesia.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/celt   (1956 words)

  
 ArtLex on Terracotta
In contrast, unbaked clay is called terra cruda.
3500-3100 BCE (Nagada II), Vase, painted terra cotta, 20.5 x 15.5 cm, Louvre.
Atalanta Lekythos, painted white-ground terra cotta, 500-490 BCE, height 31.8 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/t/terracotta.html   (376 words)

  
 Marijuana.Com Marijuana Seeds & Drug Test Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Moggaliputta Tissa, compiled the Kathavatthu to refute the heretical views and theories held by some Buddhist sects.
Mauryan dynasty and establishes the Sunga Empire, starting of wave of persecution against Buddhism.
Indo-Greek kingdom (180-10 BCE), under which Buddhism flourishes.
cannabissativa.com /wiki/Timeline_of_Buddhism   (2498 words)

  
 Timeline of Events in Classical China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
He writes the Tao-te Ching and founds the Taoist school of thought.
Sometime after 502 BCE, Confucius becomes ssu k'ou in Lu.
On diplomatic errands, Confucius assists at ceremony during meeting between Duke Ting of Lu and Duke Ching of Ch'i in Chia Ku (500 BCE)
guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/wheeler/chinese_timeline.html   (536 words)

  
 ArtLex on Dance
Antefix, terra cotta, early 400s BCE, 21 7/16 x 12 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (54.6 x 32.5 x 16.5 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA.
Chinese, Dancer-Shaped Pei Pendants, Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 25 CE), white jade, 4.6 x 2.5 cm, Henan Museum, China.
This pair of pei pendants is carved in openwork and engraved lines.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/d/dance.html   (934 words)

  
 The Hebrew Sources Of Northern Tongues
Waterman bases his case on the fact that words in Germanic borrowed from Greek in the 400s BCE also underwent the shift whereas words taken from Latin in the first century BCE did not.
The period of 500 BCE (for the said “Sound Change”) is the one most authoritative opinion seems to converge on.
Whether it occurred before 500 BCE or in the following era the most important point for us is recognition of the fact that it did occur.
www.ensignmessage.com /archives/northerntongues.html   (1492 words)

  
 Detail Page
The Athenian democracy was a marvel and inspiration to the Greek world, as it remains today; one reason for Athens' successful imperialism in the 400s
The immediate purpose was to assuage the Athenian middle class, who supplied the backbone of the Hoplite army and whose discontent was creating the threat of civil war and of usurpation by Tyrants.
Juries were filled by volunteers—male citizens over age 30—who were enrolled at the start of the Athenian year.
www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0176   (1002 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
An epic poem is one in which a hero has an adventure in a long, narrative poem with interventions by various divinities and other superhuman creatures.
The society described in both the Iliad and Odyssey is one that actually existed in the 12th century BCE, the century of the Trojan War.
Hera also knew that Trojan descendants, the Romans, were destined by the Fates to cause the future destruction of her beloved city of Carthage (in the Punic Wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE).
bol8425-01.k12.fsu.edu /ggchapter16iliad.doc   (4576 words)

  
 QuesArchaeology
They date from around 700 BCE (or after) and the only known parallels outside of the British Isles were found in Egypt (J. Taylor, "Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles", Cambridge, 1980, p.64).
This was about 700 BCE abd coukld have been caused by a lengthening of the orbit of the earth around the sun and therefore a lenthening of the year.
This would be additional evidence confirming the claim that about 700 BCE the length of the year changed from 360 days to 365.25 days.
www.britam.org /Questions/QuesArchaeology.html   (3875 words)

  
 350 BCE [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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www.wikimirror.com /350_BCE   (1077 words)

  
 [LMB] OT: Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Herotodos lived in the generation after the Great Persian War, which ended in 479 BCE, so he lived in the mid 400s BCE and died long before Phillip, let alone Alexander II were born, so he couldn't have commented on either.
Nor could Thucydides, who wrote circa 400-390 BCE.
Alexander was born in 356 BCE and died in 323 BCE.
lists.herald.co.uk /pipermail/lois-bujold/2004-September/017470.html   (429 words)

  
 SCTR 11 Class Prep 6 (Murphy, SCU)
You received a handout in class that charts three major internal and external pressures that Athens was facing during the late 500s through the late 400s BCE (click here for a pdf copy).
Aeschylus composed the trilogy during these tumultous years, years that coincided with the flowering of Greek philosophy, political theory, art and architecture.
Aeschylus presented the trilogy in one sitting for the Great Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, perhaps at the Odeion at the base of the Acropolis (to the right).
www-relg-studies.scu.edu /facstaff/murphy/courses/sctr011/prep-06.htm   (508 words)

  
 Assign245/02/10/97
For Tuesday's class, please bring your compass and straightedge (ruler).
572-497 BCE: Pythagoras - leader of "brotherhood" with motto "All is number"
400s BCE: Zeno - pointed out several physical / logical / mathematical paradoxes
newton.uor.edu /facultyfolder/beery/math115/day9.htm   (529 words)

  
 400s - Adwords Research by Velocityscape
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 Sun Bu-er
She lived in the north, perhaps in Louyang; she married, had three children, and at about the age of 50, began to devote herself to Daoist practice.
The Daoist teachings were based on the Dao de jing (Classic of the way and the power; old spelling, Tao te ching), believed to have been written in the 400s BCE by Laozi /Lao Tzu.
Apparently, several years before Sun Bu-er's own acceptance of Daoism, her husband had become a disciple of Wang Chongyang /Wang Ze (1112-1170), the founder of a new Daoist group in the north.
home.infionline.net /~ddisse/sunbuer.html   (965 words)

  
 Scarboro Missions — Golden Rule Curriculum for Schools
But the basic idea of the Rule is ancient–variations of the Golden Rule are found across history and in societies around the world.
Confucius lived in the 500s BCE and his secular philosophy was put into writing by his disciples after he died.
Zoroaster was a philosopher who lived in Persia (present-day Iran) in the 600s BCE.
www.scarboromissions.ca /Interfaith_dialogue/golden_rule_curriculum.php   (6105 words)

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