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	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)

	1000-500 BCE
		He was born about 563 BCE with the family name of Gotama and the personal name of Siddhattha.
		Aeschylus (525-425 BCE) became the first Greek playwright to bring a second actor on to the stage, enabling him to exploit the endless possibilities of dialog.
		His one surviving trilogy of plays overthrows the ancient tradition of the repeating cycle of vengeance and blood feud, replacing it with trial by jury as a means of achieving justice.
	www.humanistictexts.org /500_1000BCE.htm (1025 words)

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		479 BCE: China - The philosopher Mo-tzu, founder of Mohism, is born.
		145 BCE: China - The historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien, author of the Records of the Historian, is born.
		141-87 BCE: China - Han Wu-Ti is emperor of the Han Dynasty.
	eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/chpage.htm (937 words)

	Pausanias (general) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the nephew of Leonidas I and served as regent after his uncle's death, as Leonidas' son, Pleistarchus, was still under-age.
		He was responsible for the Greek victory over Mardonius and the Persians at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE, and was the leader of the Hellenic League created to resist Persian aggression during the Greco-Persian Wars.
		The curse of the Goddess of the Brazen House; in 478 BCE Pausanias, the Spartan regent, was suspected of conspiring with the Persians and was recalled to Sparta, however he was acquitted and then left Sparta of his own accord, taking a trireme from the town of Hermione.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pausanias_(general) (524 words)

	CLAS1000: DR.Norman
		Solon was selected in 595 BCE as special Tenth Archon and given the task of reforming the Athenian governance with an aim towards alleviating social tensions and civil unrest to avoid tyranny.
		He was a member of the Eupatridae, an aristocratic clan in Athens, and fought in the major battles of the Persian War: Marathon in 490 BCE, Salamis in 480 BCE, and Plataia in 479 BCE.
		He is said to have left Athens in 408 BCE and to have died in Macedonia at the court of King Archelaus in 406 BCE.
	www.classics.uga.edu /courses/clas1000/study_tools/author.htm (2767 words)

	History of Iran: Xerxes (Khashayar Shah)
		He wintered in Sardis in 481-480 BCE and thence led a combined land and sea invasion of Greece.
		Northern Greece fell to the invaders in the summer of 480 BCE, the Greek stand at Thermopylae in August of 480 BCE came to nought, and the Persian land forces marched on Athens, taking and burning the Acropolis.
		Self-enjoyment was steadily sapping the strength and vitality of the Achaemenid Empire, led to the assassination of the Great King in 465 BCE -probably upon order by one of his sons, Artaxerxes, who succeeded him-.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/xerxes/xerxes.php (480 words)

	HIS 111 Document Background Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Confucius (K'ung fu-tzu, 551-479 bce) was one of the world's most important philosophers.
		Although Moses, who lived around 1200 bce, is traditionally credited with the book, it underwent a long and complex development.
		Pericles (495?-429 bce) was the central figure of the Golden Age of Athens.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/campus/his111/aids/notes.html (1010 words)

	Confucius
		Confucius (551-479 BCE), according to Chinese tradition, was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
		In any case, by most traditional accounts, Confucius returned to Lu in 484 BCE and spent the remainder of his life teaching, putting in order the Book of Songs, the Book of Documents, and other ancient classics, as well as editing the Spring and Autumn Annals, the court chronicle of Lu.
		While Confucius believes that people live their lives within parameters firmly established by Heaven—which, often, for him means both a purposeful Supreme Being as well as ‘nature’ and its fixed cycles and patterns—he argues that men are responsible for their actions and especially for their treatment of others.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/confucius (3294 words)

	History of Iran: Persian influence on Greece
		He left the war to general Mardonius, who sacked Athens but was defeated in the summer of 479 BCE near Plataea.
		Sometimes, the Athenians were successful (e.g., at Eurymedon in 465 BCE), and sometimes the Persians were victorious (e.g., in Egypt in 456 BCE).
		However, in 415 BCE, Athens attacked Sicily in the far west and supported Amorges, a rebel in the Achaemenid empire.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/persian_influence_on_greece1.php (1253 words)

	Confucius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Better known in China as "Master Kong" (Chinese: Kongzi), Confucius was a fifth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose influence upon East Asian intellectual and social history is immeasurable.
		Sources for the historical recovery of Confucius' life and thought are limited to texts that postdate his traditional lifetime (551-479 BCE) by a few decades at least and several centuries at most.
		After the initial persecution of Confucians during the short-lived Qin dynasty (221-202 BCE), the succeeding Han emperors and their ministers seized upon Confucius as a vehicle for the legitimation of their rule and the social control of their subjects.
	www.iep.utm.edu /c/confuciu.htm (4364 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
		Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): The Polity of the Spartans, c.
		The Acharnians 425 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
		The Wasps 422 BCE [At Eserver, formerly ERIS]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook07.html (2613 words)

	A to Z Kids Stuff Greece
		Around 1250 BCE the city of Troy in northern Turkey was raided.
		The Athenian statesman Cleisthenes (570-508 BCE) is regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy.
		The Greeks lost their first battle, at Thermopylae (therm-AH-pill-aye), but they won after that, a great naval victory at Salamis and in the spring of 479 BCE a battle at Plataea.
	www.atozkidsstuff.com /greece.html (809 words)

	Plataea to Polyphemos * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		444-429 BCE; his family was literate and politically active and assumed to have been part of the Athenian aristocracy; as a student of Sokrates (Socrates), Plato learned that ideas could be fatal and much of his work centers around the philosophy and execution of Sokrates (399 BCE).
		Polykrates ruled Samos from 532 BCE until his death circa 515 BCE; he was a man of great ambition and skill; originally, he took control of the island and shared the governance with his two brothers, Pantagnotus and Syloson, but he had Pantagnotus killed and Syloson was banished.
		Polykrates amassed a large fleet of ships and assembled an army capable of dominating all who opposed him; from the island of Samos he was in an excellent strategic position to capture and defend the Aegean coast of Asia Minor as well as the islands of the Aegean Sea.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_p1004.html (2944 words)

	Livius Picture Archive: the battle of Plataea (479 BCE)
		After victories at Thermopylae and Artemisium and a minor setback in the straits of Salamis, it seemed as if he would return to Greece to finish the job in the summer of 479.
		However, the Persian commander in Europe, Mardonius, had unsufficient troops to overcome the Greek army that united at the Cithaeron mountain range.
		When they retreated, the Persians believed they had already won the day, crossed the river, and were defeated by the superior phalanx of the Spartans.
	www.livius.org /a/battlefields/plataea/plataea.html (204 words)

	Geometry.Net - Philosophers: Confucius
		His teachings, preserved in the Analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his live and interact with others, and the forms of society and government in which he should participate.
		Confucius was born in the small state of Lu in 551 BC and died in 479 BC.
		The most prominent figure of this educated elite was a man named Kong Qiu (551 to 479 B.C.), usually referred to as Master Kong (Kong-fu zi or Kongzi).
	www5.geometry.net /philosophers/confucius.html (1633 words)

	Greek Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)

	Proceedings: Svinth 2003, GSJSA
		479 BCE: A Greek woman named Hydne becomes a Hellenic hero by helping her father Skyllis pull up the anchors of some Iranian ships during a storm, thus causing the ships to founder and their crews to drown.
		While most modern authorities suggest that Hydne and her father were probably sponge-fishers, it is possible that they were upper-class athletes whose training for Dionysian swimming meets had been interrupted by war.
		About 460 BCE: The Greek historian Herodotus describes the practices and culture of some female warriors he called the Amazons.
	ejmas.com /proceedings/GSJSA03svinth.htm (6960 words)

	Ancient China
		Ritual (li) – not sacrifices asking for blessings of the gods, but ceremonies symbolizing the cultured patterns of behavior developed developed through generations of human wisdom.
		Han Emperor Wu (140 to 87 BCE) promoted Confucian values to maintain law, order, and imperial state order.
		Indians believe that society naturally functions in a unified was, as do different parts of the human body.
	faculty.valencia.cc.fl.us /mtripp/ancient_china.htm (864 words)

	Timeline of Buddhist History
		590-470 BCE: Mahavir - Founder of Jainism, contemporary of the Buddha.
		589-525 BCE: Enlightenment of the Buddha in Bodhgaya (at age 36).
		During the full-moon night of July, the Buddha delivers his first discourse near Varanasi, introducing the world to the Four Noble Truths and commencing a 45-year career of teaching the religion he called "Dhamma-vinaya".
	www.geocities.com /buddhism2001/timeline.html (1600 words)

	Military History Online - The Battle of Plataea - August, 479 BCE
		Here the Greek style of decisive, heavy infantry combat, which for the most part had only been seen during the internecine wars amongst the Greeks, would be put to the test in the fields outside of the town of Plataea by the richest and most powerful empire in the world.
		At Marathon, in 490 BCE, massed formations of armored Greek infantry defeated a Persian army designed for warfare on the open plains of Asia.
		Ten years later, at the pass of Thermopylae, the Persians under King Xerxes triumphed, but it was a victory achieved by sheer weight of numbers.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /ancient/plataea/default.aspx (2799 words)

	SparkNotes: The Libation Bearers: Context
		His military experience included fighting in the battle of Marathon against the Persians in 490 BCE and again against the Persians at Salamis and Platea in 480 BCE.
		Athens, at that time, was part of a federation of small Greek states allied against the enormous forces of the Persian army, which was led by king Xerxes.
		This allowed them to fight far more fiercely than their opponents, who were all slaves of Xerxes and who had no personal reasons for fighting the Greeks.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/libationbearers/context.html (1022 words)

	East Asia Timeline
		1500 Aryan invasions of the Indian subcontinent (until 1200 BCE); composition of the earliest hymns of the Rig Veda in India
		237 Ashoka (273-237 BCE), emperor of India, significant patron of Buddhism
		100 The Bhagavad Gita composed sometime between 100 BCE and 100 CE Hsin dynasty in China (9-23 CE)
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~eshaw/asiatime.htm (835 words)

	Understanding Religious Experience-Chinese Scriptures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		1050 - 250 BCE.) According to Deborah Sommer (Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources, 3) The I Ching (Yijing) "is perhaps the earliest text of Chinese antiquity." However, it did not achieve its final form until perhaps the beginning of the Christian Era.
		Confucius (551 - 479 BCE.) was a scholarly politician, an aspiring advisor to the royal dynasties which ruled China.
		Although not particularly successful in his own lifetime he established a school which flourished after his death and eventually dominated all of Chinese education until the People's Revolution of 1949.
	www.westminster.edu /staff/brennie/chinesec.htm (719 words)

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		1379-1362 BCE Reign of Akhenaton (Ikhnaton), Egyptian alleged monotheist.
		550-480 BCE Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha ("Enlightened One"): Buddhism
		BCE, the founder of Euclidian geometry): founder of Megarian school, combining Socratic insights with Eleatic philosophy, producing an identification of being and goodness.
	websyte.com /alan/panorama.htm (4616 words)

	AsiaDocs -- Documents from and about Asia, a resource of the UCLA Asia Institute
		The Analects Attributed to Confucius[Kongfuzi], 551-479 BCE by Lao-Tse [Lao Zi] Translated by James Legge (1815-1897)
		The Analects Attributed to Confucius [Kongfuzi], 551-479 BCE by Lao-Tse [Lao Zi] Translated by James Legge (1815-1897)
		When he died in 92 CE, she completed his work on a history of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE - 8 CE).
	www.international.ucla.edu /asia/documents/index.asp (2512 words)

	Chinese History
		Mature and technically perfect bronze culture (from the near east?).
		QIN DYNASTY (c.700 - 481 - 221 - 206 BCE)
		Tibetan Kingdom formed (150 BCE) (expansionist until 850 CE).
	www.halexandria.org /dward208.htm (420 words)

	About the Original Taoism
		From a modern prospective we could say that his deep thoughts were compactly expressed in this book.
		(551-479 BCE), like many other Chinese, treated sayings originated by Lao Tzu as adages of his time.
		Throughout history, until this day, it has always been common knowledge among Chinese that Lao Tzu*s saying are full of wisdom and deep thoughts.
	www.taoism-truth.com /id6.htm (2829 words)

	INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT WORLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		900 BCE) - decline of Minoan, Mycenaean, Egyptian and Hittite cultures, Phoenician migrations
		1000-750 BCE) - The Birth and Expansion of Ancient Greece
		The Dark Age and the Birth of Ancient Greece (c.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~bfvaughan/text/201/notes/unit1/intro.html (179 words)

	The Role of Women in Ancient Greek Art
		In 370 BCE Xenephon wrote about the role of women: Click here
		My main interest is in the time before 1000 BCE and far removed from Christianity.
		Oracles were often women but their ravings could not be taken seriously unless intreped by men.
	www.fjkluth.com /amaz.html (12319 words)

	THE AEGEAN WORLD: CRETE AND MAINLAND GREECE
		Mycenaen Period, 1400-1200 BCE: prehistory; sources; archaeology (Heinrich Schliemann); Homer; Linear B (Michael Ventris, 1953).
		century BCE: "Classical" Greece: democracy grows; reforms of Pericles; philosophical and artistic developments: Socrates; Plato; Aeschuylus; Sophocles; Euripides; Aristophanes; Herodotus; Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian Wars); the construction of the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena
		The Peloponnesian Wars, 431-404: phase 1, 431-422: plague in Athens; Peace of Nicias; phase 2, 415-404 BCE: invasion of Melos; Spartan triumphs in 404 BCE.
	www.gpc.edu /~proseman/TELCORS/AEGEANWORLD.htm (329 words)

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