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	Temple of Confucius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The largest and oldest Temple of Confucius is found in Confucius's hometown, present-day Qufu in Shandong Province.
		It was established in 478 BCE, one year after Confucius's death, at the order of the Duke Ai of the State of Lu, who commanded that the Confucian residence should be used to worship and offer sacrifice to Confucius.
		Sacrifices to the spirit of Confucius and that of Yan Hui, his most prominent disciple, began in the Imperial University (Biyong) as early as 241.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Temple_of_Confucius (1306 words)

	Greek Analects
		Anaximander (circa 611-547 BCE), born in Miletus, proposed that the universe originated with the separation of opposites from a primordial material, referred to as the "non-limited".
		Pythagoras (circa 580-500 BCE), was born in Samos, Ionia, moving to Italy in about 532 BCE to establish an academy at Croton devoted to religious and philosophical studies, which continued after his death.
		Heraclitus (circa 540-480 BCE), born in Ephesus in Anaolia, considered fire the basic material of the universe but extended the notion of fire to the smoke that rises from it and thence to the atmosphere as a whole.
	www.humanistictexts.org /grkanalec.htm (4544 words)

	The Significance of 70 Years
		Even through Jehoiachin was not in office and was not transported to Babylon until the year 597-596 BCE (at the epoch of a 70th year--as cited) it may have been that the author of Ezekiel reckoned the year of Jehoiachin's captivity' as coinciding with the time of the initial Babylonian conquest of Judea.
		This means that the occurrence of the nearest 7th year (according to 70-year chronology) could have begun in either the spring of the year 162 BCE (not in autumn of the year 163 BCE) or it could have began in the spring of the year 163 BCE (not the autumn of the year 163).
		It is of special significance that the year 37 BCE (the year when King Herod ascended to the throne of Jerusalem) is indicated to have been the year of a conjunction of both cycles--of 70 years and of 49 years.
	www.creation-answers.com /seventy.htm (17768 words)

	Persian Period in Anatolia and Asia Minor
		Cyrus was an able soldier and a great statesman and he was also a merciful king, one of his deeds was to grant the Jews to return from their exile in Babylon to their home land in Israel and rebuild the temple of Solomon.
		Darius the great (reigned 522 to 486 BCE.) was the son of the noble Hystaspes who was the satrap of Parthia and a member of royal family and Achaemenids dynasty.
		Darius II (reigned 425 to 405 BCE.), as soon as he became the king, he was able to put down some rebellions that have been going on.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/persian_period.htm (2052 words)

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		By the end of the sixth century, philosophers begin to question the metaphysical nature of the cosmos with inquiries into the nature of being, the meaning of truth, and the relationship between the divine and the physical world.
		Born in 480 BCE, he is the last of the tragic dramatists.
		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/grpage.htm (1812 words)

	Overview
		In the classical era, Rhetoric was a major cultural force—tied to governmental practice and the rise of textual literacy.
		Socrates (469-399 BCE) is against the Sophists because he believes that the only worthy goal of Rhetoric is to pursue absolute truth (allegory of the cave, realm of the forms).
		Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a student of Plato’s, who went on to found his own school (one of his pupils was the ruler Alexander the Great) and to become one of the widest ranging and most important writers in the Western tradition.
	www.viterbo.edu /perspgs/faculty/WStobb/471spr04classical.htm (1364 words)

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		According to Indian texts written during the sixth century BCE, the god-man Krishna is born at Mathura, in Uttar Pradesh.
		This belief that God was on the side of the bigger battalions was codified during the sixth century BCE, and made a fundamental part of the Six Secret Teachings of the T'ai Kung general.
		The latter use is certain, by the way, as the Athenians used Scythian policemen from 530-350 BCE and their bows were of this type.
	ejmas.netfirms.com /kronos/NewHist000-478.htm (20101 words)

	Carthage and North Africa: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Dionysius the Elder (406-367 BCE) 368 BCE Dionysius the tyrant took the field against the Carthaginians but died soon thereafter having ruled for thrity eight years; his son Dionysius succeeded him and ruled for twelve years (Diod.
		Liberation of Sicily by Timoleon (343-330 BCE): The Corinthian Timoleon sought to rid the island of tyrants and revive the autonomy of the Greek city states, but although he was successful in initiating a revival of the prosperity of Sicily, no long-term political stability was achieved.
		In 294 he crossed over to Italy and laid siege to Hipponium and attacked the Bruttians Diod xxi.8.; In 290 BCE the heir apparent Agathocles the son of Agathocles was murdered by Menon of Segesta and Archagathus and Agathocles himself died from mouth cancer.
	www.juyayay.com /outline/carthage (646 words)

	pelo
		As the Greeks entered the sixth century BCE divided into small and competing poleis, they had to contend with the powerful force of the Persian Empire expanding from the East.
		By the mid 5th century BCE, Persia had already conquered a number of Greek poleis in Asia Minor in the region of Ionia.
		Hellas, by the 300's BCE was severely weakened by war and its destructive effects.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist151/pelo.htm (1329 words)

	EPHESUS
		The Persians were eventually defeated in the region in 466 BCE, when Ephesus became a tributary of Athens.
		After the tragic fire in 356 BCE (tradition holds that Herostratos set that temple aflame to make a name for himself), the city took a long time to recover.
		They were defeated by the Romans at Magnesia (189 BCE) and Ephesus was turned over to control by Pergamum, until in 133 BCE Ephesus came under direct Roman rule.
	www.enjoyturkey.com /Tours/Interest/Biblicals/ephesus.htm (1295 words)

	Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore
		Contemporaneous with practicing his diverse religious beliefs, man also began critically and rationally contemplating the nature of his beliefs, the kinds of gods that he worshipped and their attributes, in view of his practical experiences in day-to-day life.
		Rationalism may have led to the evolution of philosophy, logic, and physical sciences in other parts of the world also, but the development of these fields of knowledge was much more systematic and better documented in the Greek-dominated world than elsewhere.
		Socrates (470 BCE-399 BCE) is probably the most prominent philosopher who was impeached for impiety, as well as corrupting the minds of the young.
	www.secweb.org /index.aspx?action=viewAsset&id=193 (4451 words)

	Talk:Romulus and Remus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since total eclipses can be observed from the same place only once in 410 years (an average figure of astronomers), these eclipses provide exclusive absolute dates for us.
		1-2) and that event is fixed to 478 BCE (as Hind and Chambers, 1889:323 observed long ago) by two solar eclipses.
		(The modern 509 BCE date is not well supported as absolute date.) Herodotus VII, 37 and VIII, 131 and IX, 1) testifies these two solar eclipses (fifth and sixth) as follow: When Xerxes was departing from Sardis, before crossing over to Greece, the Sun disappeared (on February 17, 478 BCE).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Romulus_and_Remus (1651 words)

	Kronos: 0000-0499
		Because 7400 BCE currently represents the longest continuous tree-ring series: carbon-14 in the atmosphere fluctuates from year to year, and without tree ring samples, that fluctuation cannot be precisely determined.
		Accordingly, Chinese dates earlier than the ninth century BCE that are not supported by archeological data should be treated with suspicion, and all dates that are not supported by external data should be treated with caution.
		Be that as it may, while Homer attributed the causes of the Trojan War to the wrath of Achilleus and the beauty of Helen, modern scholars usually attribute it to trade disputes and generic conflagration-era battles between infantry and charioteers.
	ejmas.com /kronos/NewHist0000-0499.htm (19514 words)

	Peloponnesian Wars and the Decline of Athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the Persian war, in 478 BCE, a voluntary league was created for the common defense of the Greek city-states.
		This peace lasted 7 years until 414 BCE when the war started again, ending only with the defeat of Athens in 404 BCE.
		After ten years of fighting and some disastrous events among allied cities, the situation was no different than it was at the beginning of the war.
	members.aol.com /ksmith9526/SSGreeceDelianLeaguePelopWar.htm (1163 words)

	The Thirteenth Floor
		Confucius was born in 551 BCE, in what was then the feudal state of Lu, now included in the modern province of Shan-tung.
		At last he returned to Lu, where he spent the last five years of his long life encouraging others to the study and practice of virtue, and edifying all by his noble example.
		He died in the year 478 BCE, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
	hammer.prohosting.com /ourminds/people/confucius.html (840 words)

	Pindar, Odes Background 1
		Cyrene was founded in 630 bce as a colony of the Dorian Greek island town Thera.
		Delphi was a small village in Phocis which owed its importance to the fact that it was the seat of a famous temple of Apollo, where people from all places would come to consult an oracle that was at all times in ancient Greece the most respected and influenctial of all prophetic centers.
		Kleobis and Biton, sons of a priestess in the temple of Hera at Argos famed for their filial piety; among the sculptures of the Siphnian Treasury (610-580 bce).
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /wescourses/2003s/cciv110/01/draft/Background/background.pindar1.html (4073 words)

	ANCIENT EGYPT : The impact of Ancient Egypt on Greek philosophy : Memphite & Theban thought
		Between 30 BCE and 642 CE, Egypt was ruled by the Romans and the Byzantines, before it became Islamic as it still is today.
		This period is subdivided on the basis of the pottery or the rebuilding of the palaces.
		1450 BCE) and caused the elaboration of Greek Linear B based on Cretan Linear A, which is not a Greek language as evidenced by the few tablets found in Linear A (for example, the word for "total" -often used in administrative texts- cannot be understood as the archaic matrix of a Greek word).
	sofiatopia.org /maat/hermes1.htm (13766 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 478 BCE, with increased confidence and pride, the Athenians established the Delian League.
		The objective of the league was to unite the Greek poleis in common defense against the Persians and to attack the Persians in order to prevent Persian dominance.
		In 445 BCE, the Athenians relocated the league treasury from Delos to Athens.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~mmgower/background.html (330 words)

	Delphi Museum
		Fragments of an Ionian silver-plated bull of the mid 6th century BCE, the largest example from antiquity of a statue made out of precious metal.
		It was dedicated to Apollo by the Syracusan Polyzalos, the brother of the tyrants Gelon and Hieron, in 478 BCE to commemorate a chariot victory at the Pythian Games.
		Marble sheathing from a circular altar found in the Sanctuary of Athena with a relief of women adorning the garland below the rim of the altar with scarves.
	www.grisel.net /delphi_museum.htm (744 words)

	204resp1
		478 BCE: Greek City states come together as the Delian League.
		In-fighting within the Delian League leads to the Peloponessian War during the 4th century BCE, but Plato and Aristotle do significant work despite the turmoil.
		Plato writes the Socratic dialogues, which are largely arguments between Socrates and one or more of the Sophists (although, in the dialogue in the reading packet, Socrates is not pitted against a Sophist).
	www.viterbo.edu /perspgs/faculty/WStobb/471lect1.html (623 words)

	Biblesearchers.com - Emeq HaMelekh, Tower Babel, Hanging Gardens, Behistun Stone, Lost Tribes Israel, Fall Babylon, ...
		On October 539 BCE the most decisive battle between the forces of Nabonidus and Cyrus met at what historians believe is the site of ancient Baghdad, at ancient Opis. The Babylonian army was routed, Nabonidus fled and the Babylonian citizens living at Opis revolted against their own country.
		At 1 BCE, the date would have been 3762 from the year of Adam, therefore these tablets were engraved in the year 431 BCE or ten years before the rabbinic date of the final destruction of the temple of Solomon.
		Esther, the Queen of Persia to Xerses (366-351 BCE), a young lady just beginning womanhood early in Xerses’ reign, became God’s secret servant to preserve his people by the onslaught of the wrath of Haman, a born Amelakites, the people with a genetic hatred to the Children of Israel since their exodus from Egypt.
	biblesearchers.com /temples/jeremiah5.shtml (7319 words)

	Athenian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Athenians felt that they in particular had done more than their part with their army at Marathon and their navy at Salamis and Mycale.
		This provided the empire with a stable and standard coinage as well as exposing everyone in the empire to Athenian propaganda every time they looked at a coin and saw the Athenian symbols of the owl and Athena.
		When Pericles came to power in 460 B.C.E., the Athenians were trying to extend their power and influence in mainland Greece while also supporting a major revolt against the Persians in Egypt.
	www.flowofhistory.com /Reading23.AthenianEmpire.htm (2134 words)

	notes2
		Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)- The Persian emperor Darius retaliated and attacked Attica (the peninsula dominated by Athens) in 490 BCE.
		Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)- The Greek military strategy early in the war was to slow the Persian invasion long enough to allow the Greek navy the chance to attack the Persian fleet.
		Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus (around 133 BCE)- Tiberius was elected a Tribune of the plebeians in 133 BCE and proposed redistributing public lands to provide landless peasants with small farms.
	users.gloryroad.net /~cmonte/WHnotes2.html (11022 words)

	Workable Peace
		In the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, two city-states began to emerge as the dominant powers among the Greeks: Sparta and Athens.
		In 426 BCE, in the middle of the war with Sparta, the Athenian general Nicias had tried to invade the island of Melos, but the Melians successfully fought off the invaders.
		In 416 BCE, after 5 years of peace with Sparta, Athens again decided to force the island of Melos to join the Delian League.
	www.workablepeace.org /main-curriculum-A-M.html (2088 words)

	Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While the effect of these early forms of worship continues to have a profound influence, belief systems have evolved as they interact with other religions.
		The formation of the Old Kingdom of Egypt in the third millennium BCE marked the first known complex religious system on the continent.
		Around the ninth century BCE, Carthage (in present-day Tunisia) was founded by the Phoenicians, and went on to become a major cosmopolitan center where deities from neighboring Egypt, Rome and the Etruscan city-states were worshipped.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Africa (5423 words)

	Chronology of Asian maritime history
		C11th BCE: After collapse of the Shang dynasty, Chinese general You Houxi led 250,000 troops to the South Pacific and the Americas.
		C4th BCE: A lodestone compass was mentioned in the Chinese Book of the Devil Valley Master, 'they carry a south-pointer with them so as not to lose their way'.
		C1st BCE: A blue glass bowl excavated in a Han tomb in Guangzhou is probably Roman, made on the southern shores of the Mediterranean in the C1st BCE.
	www.maritimeasia.ws /topic/chronology.html (14122 words)

	THE RISE OF ATHENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Annexation of the Northern Aegean Coast (514-13 BCE) -
		The European Invasion (514-13 BCE) - The Persians expand into Thrace, Bridging the Bosporus
		The Rise of the Athenian (Delian) League (478 BCE)
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~bfvaughan/text/201/notes/unit2/athens.html (158 words)

	Dualism or Dichotomy?
		Much later, the Greek philosopher Xenophanes (560 - 478 BCE) noted sea-shells and marine fossils in mountain strata, and concluded there had been big changes in sea-level in the past.
		Note: the Greeks as a nation were recently emerged from `barbarism' (a Greek word), and had a folk-legend of Phaethon, son of the sun-god, rashly trying to drive the "chariot of the Sun" but crashing it with catastrophic results on Earth.
		The gods' fifth Judgment Day is calculated to fall on 23rd - 24th December 2012 CE Note: the correlation of that Mayan `long count' was successfully unravelled by Joseph Goodman, a Californian newspaper editor in 1905, by painstaking cross-checking of the Mayan codices and the Spanish colonial records.
	www.perceptions.couk.com /magic4.html (2254 words)

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