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	Athena Review 1,1: Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BC
		This shoreline near Walmer Castle is probably in the area where Julius Caesar and his troops landed during the two Roman excursions to Britain of 55 and 54 BC.
		Both the 55 and 54 BC Roman expeditions left from Boulogne (Portus Itius), and landed at Deal, a few miles northeast of Dover.
		In 55 BC, the Roman cavalry ships were forced back to Gaul by a storm, and Caesar's troops were confined to the shore.
	www.athenapub.com /caesar1.htm (1429 words)

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		He was awarded the Judean high-priesthood by Alexander Balas [152 BCE] and later rewarded with full control of Judean territory after he defeated Demetrius II [147 BCE].
		After her death [67 BCE] he was deposed by his younger brother, Aristobulus, but with the support of Antipater he was restored to the high-priesthood after Roman forces wrested control of Jerusalem from his brother's aristocratic supporters [63 BCE].
		He was supported by the Sadducees but was driven from Jerusalem [65 BCE] by Arab armies of Nabatea [Jordan], who came to his brother's aid at the invitation of Antipater.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/temp.html (1617 words)

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		Their conservative government consists of a kingship, resembling the traditional values of the patriarchal family; an assembly, composed of male citizens of military age; and a Senate, comprised of elders who serve as the heads of different community sects.
		Their major contributions to the Romans are the arch and the vault, gladiatorial combat for entertainment and the study of animals to predict future events.
		52 BCE: Rome - Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
	eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/ropage.htm (2946 words)

	300BCE
		Jesus the son of Sirach (about 200 BCE), a Jewish scholar, wrote down a compilation of the wisdom he had gathered during his life.
		He extolled the value of health over riches, advised occupying a dwelling of one's own no matter how humble, advocated cheerfulness and being comfortable with one's life, warned against disruptive passions, and urged that one should not defraud oneself of one good day, for there is no luxury to be enjoyed in the grave.
		In this way, he shows how different viewpoints on historical events can emerge and how skepticism might be required when people in power describe their accomplishments and motives.
	www.humanistictexts.org /200bce-200ce.htm (862 words)

	The Xiongnu Culture - Third Century BCE
		During Emperor Mo-tun reign (208-175 BCE), the Xiongnu were at the zenith of their might and occupied a huge territory from Lake Baikal on the north to the Ordos plateau on the south and the Liao River on the east.
		By 55-34 BCE their political influence reached as far as the lower Volga and the Ureal foothills.
		By the first century BCE there were also large settled populations with well-developed agriculture of millet, barley and wheat.
	www.silk-road.com /artl/xiongnu1.shtml (536 words)

	The Atrebates
		They were one of the most successful British Celtic tribes during the 1st and 2nd centuries BCE until after the Gallic wars when they perhaps fell out of favor with Rome for supporting Vercingetorix and their lead was taken by the Trinovantians.
		These all were similar to the Gallic Ambiani staters with an anstract head of Apollo on the obverse, derived from Phillip II of Macedon tetradrachms, and horses and wheels on the reverse.
		Bronze was apparantly not used by the Atrabates until the turn of the Millenium during the dynastic period.
	www.kernunnos.com /celticcoins/atrebatestxt.html (586 words)

	Ancient Roman Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		367 BCE: Rome The first plebeian consul is elected to the assembly, and plebeians become eligible to serve as lesser magistrates, formerly a position only granted to the aristocratic class.
		265 BCE: Rome initiates the Punic Wars with Carthage, an oligarchic empire stretching from the northern coast of Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar.
		52 BCE: Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
	www.crystalinks.com /romehistory.html (3100 words)

	Tigranes the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tigranes was born around 140 BCE and was the son or nephew of Artavasdes I.
		In 83 BCE he conquered Syria, Phoenicia, and Cilicia, effectively putting an end to the Seleucid Empire, though a few holdout cities appear to have recognized the shadowy boy-king Seleucus VII Philometor as the legitimate king during his reign.
		On 6 October, 69 BCE Tigranes was defeated by the Romans at Tigranakert.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigranes_the_Great (688 words)

	Julius Caesar, Romans (Photo Archive)
		Caesar was born in 102 or 100 BCE into the ancient patrician family of the Iulii who claimed ancestry from Aeneas of Troy, one of the mythical founders of Rome, and the goddess Venus, but few members of the family had distinguished themselves in the previous generations.
		In 56 BCE the alliance of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey met fierce opposition in the senate in Rome and one candidate for the consulship in 55 BCE promised to call back Caesar and prosecute him if he won the election.
		In 48 BCE he held his second consulate, in 47 BCE he was dictator again, in 46 BCE third time consul and dictator, in 45 BCE consul for the fourth time and dictator and finally in 44 BCE fifth time consul and dictator for life.
	sights.seindal.dk /sight/766_Julius_Caesar-all.html (5354 words)

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		The Basilica Aemilia was first constructed in 179 BCE during the censorship of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
		In 14 BCE, after a fire, the restoration was funded by Augustus, when the shops on the Forum side were replaced by an impressive colonnaded portico two storeys high.
		This was most likely the porticus dedicated in 2 BCE to Augustus's grandsons and adopted heirs, Gaius and Lucius (see Forum drawing).
	www.vroma.org:7878 /2986 (338 words)

	TSX lower while BCE plans Bell income trust, earnings letdowns send NY lower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Early momentum in the telecom sector fizzled even as communications giant BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) unveiled plans to dissolve itself and turn Bell Canada into an income trust.
		Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index fell 114.99 points to 11,640.16 while BCE shares were well off earlier highs but still up $1 to $32.55.
		BCE said the Bell Canada Income Fund would have an initial annual cash distribution of $2.55 a unit.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/business/061011/b101164.html (886 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dates with preceeded by the letter c are approximate c.900 BCE Celtic peoples invade British Isles.
		133 BCE Galatia bequeathed to Rome as a semi-autonomous Celtic province.
		55 BCE First Roman invasion of Britain; Caesar sends punitive expeditions to discourage Celtic mercenaries from supporting resistance in Gaul.
	www.iit.edu /~phillips/personal/lore/timeline.html (515 words)

	Timeline of Celtic Establishment in Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First farmers 3500 BCE Construction of Newgrange which is the largest megolithic monument in Europe.
		55 BCE Julius Ceasar of Rome invaded the Celtic Britian.
		52 BCE Julius Ceasar defeats Celts in Gaul.
	www.tylwythteg.com /tylwythteg/timeline.html (380 words)

	Religion, Magic and Medicine On–line Exhibit
		Herodotus (fifth century BCE) and Strabo (first century BCE) visited living manifestations of crocodile god and were invited to feed them.
		Although the papyrus was extracted from a crocodile mummy at Tebtunis, the crocodile temple referred to in the letter is probably the main Sobek temple at the nome capital Ptolemais Euergetis (previously Krokodilopolis) and the "Labyrinth" is the mortuary temple of the pharaoh Amenemhet III (1818–1770 BCE).
		Rolls of papyri measuring up to several meters were wrapped around some of the animals and smaller sheets were stuffed into their body cavities.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~tebtunis/lecture/rath_ex1.html (652 words)

	History of the Indo-Greek Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After around 100 BCE, Indian kings recovered the area of Mathura and Eastern Punjab east of the Ravi River, and minted their own coins.
		During the 1st century BCE, the Indo-Greeks progressively lost ground against the invasion of the Indo-Scythians, until the last king Strato II ended his ruled in Eastern Punjab around 10 CE.
		Territories of the Paropamisadae, Arachosia and Gandhara (130 - 95 BCE):
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Indo-Greek_Kingdom (935 words)

	Archeologist: King Herod's tomb desecrated, but discovery 'high point' - Haaretz - Israel News
		Professor Ehud Netzer of the university's Institute of Archaeology told reporters Tuesday that the tomb was discovered when a team of researchers found pieces of a limestone sarcophagus believed to belong to the ancient king.
		Herod, whose father and grandfather converted to Judaism, was appointed governor of Galilee at the age of 25 and was made "King of the Jews" by the Roman senate in approximately 40 BCE.
		In the year 43 BCE, when Herod was still governor of the Galilee, he was forced to flee Jerusalem along with his family after his enemies the Parthians laid siege to the city.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/856784.html (1004 words)

	Bactria History \| ema_01_package.xml
		The name of an ancient country in Central Asia, Bactria was the home of Iranian-speaking people from about the eighth century BCE and is thought to have been the birthplace of Zoroaster, the prophet of Persian religion.
		Alexander of Macedon (356–323 BCE), during his conquest of the Persian empire, took Bactria in 328 BCE and ordered the execution of Bessus (d.
		By around 55 BCE, Bactria had disappeared as an independent political entity and was home to various nomadic groups whose loyalty did not extend beyond the borders of their lands.
	www.bookrags.com /history/bactria-ema-01 (462 words)

	RE: orion Re: Date of Scrolls Deposit--55 BCE? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 55 BCE proposed deposit date encounters difficulties, including: The AMS data (and paleography) indicate some mss later than 55 BCE.
		Are all three unknowns required to allow a 55 date?
		That the texts came from Jerusalem is speculation which overlooks the relationships of the caves and the inhabited site, a communal site (with evidence for Essene presence and texts) which does not display either a destruction or a major change of usage in c.
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1997b/msg00703.html (313 words)

	CTCWeb Glossary: C (Cacus to custos)
		485 BCE; regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy; served as chief archon in Athens in 525 BCE; promulgated the law of ostracism in 510 BCE; after the fall of the tyrant Hippias, Kleisthenes established a democratic institution based on individual political responsibility on citizenship of a city rather than on membership of a clan.
		consulship; Clodius was murdered by Milo in 52 BCE during a fight between their rival gangs on the Appian Way.
		Caesar and Pompey; following his final consulship, Crassus goes to Syria as its proconsul in 55 BCE and is killed at the Battle of Carrhae 53 BCE.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/glossary/glossaryc.html (2798 words)

	Pompey-Jerusalem through Coins
		When Pompey conquered Judaea and Jerusalem in 63 BCE he entered the Temple and the Holy of Holies thereby desecrating the Temple, though he did not touch any of the sacred items.
		In 61 BCE he entered Rome in triumph, but encountered opposition from the Senate.
		In 55 BCE Crassus was slain in Syria.
	home1.gte.net /~vze3xycv/Jerusalem/confPompey.htm (547 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In order to achieve this aim he has to go a long way back: In six chapters covering the time from the last days of the kingdom of Judah in the eighth century BCE to the governorship of Gabinius in 55 BCE he describes how these structures that finally led to catastrophe evolved.
		After a concise survey of the political history of Palestine between 332 BCE and 167 BCE, B. discusses two royal decrees that stand symbolically for the changed situation.
		This is true for the capital itself; proselytizing Jews were expelled from Rome in 139 BCE because they threatened the religious homogeneity of Roman society.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-11-04.html (1974 words)

	Wars between the Jews and Romans: Pompey
		The Roman politician Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106-48 BCE), better known as Pompey, was one of the greatest generals of his age.
		In the seventies, he had pacified Hispania, and on his return to Italy, he had put an end to the slave revolt led by Spartacus.
		Antipater's son Herod managed to bring him home, but Hyrcanus was no longer high priest and Herod, who became king, had him executed in 31 BCE.
	www.livius.org /ja-jn/jewish_wars/jwar01.htm (1044 words)

	Raia Images Index II
		Coin: Agrippina the Younger: gold aureus, Rome, 50/54 CE Obverse (here): head of Agrippina, the sister of Emperor Claudius Caligula; she was the fourth wife of Claudius, whom she killed so that her son Nero could become emperor (he in turn killed her); inscribed with her name and the imperial honorific "Augusta."
		Obverse: bearded Quirinus, a local deity worshiped on the Quirinal Hill, was the patron of Rome and identified with Romulus; Reverse (not shown): Ceres with a snake.
		Concordia (?): bronze with silver inlaid eyes, Rome, 1st century CE Concordia is seated on an elaborate, large throne, wearing a coronet, and missing her left arm; she was the personification of harmony and accord (cf.
	www.vroma.org /images/raia_images/index2.html (1543 words)

	Alexander's War Tactics at the Battle of Issus
		Inherited throne in 336 BCE when Philip was murdered (Fuller 55-66)
		Alexander died in Babylon in 324 BCE (Fuller 55-66)
		Alexander had taken his men on a forced march to Myriandrus, thinking this was where Darius was going (Fuller 154).
	www.richeast.org /htwm/Greeks/Issus/Issus.html (1217 words)

	Fall of the Roman Republic Study Guide
		59, 48, 46, 45, 44; dictator 49-44 BCE
		Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian, later Augustus), consul several times; triumvir 43-38; 37-33 BCE
		Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt 51-30 BCE, wife of Antony
	lamar.colostate.edu /~jgaughan/courses/304/StudyGuides3.htm (591 words)

	Random House Publishing Group \| The Analects of Confucius by Roger Ames, translator
		Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished.
		Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius--informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 BCE and only made available to the scholarly world in 1997.
		Confucius (551-479 BCE) was born in the ancient state of Lu into an era of unrelenting, escalating violence as seven of the strongest states in the proto-Chinese world warred for supremacy.
	www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345434074 (431 words)

	Catullus Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gaius Valerius Catullus was born in the city of Verona some time around 84 BCE.
		We don't know much about him beyond what we find in his poems, even though he himself warns us not to put too much trust in what is said there.
		Catullus went to Rome early in life and spent most of his time there, with the exception of his service on the staff of C. Memmius, governor of Bithynia in 57/6 BCE.
	www.iona.edu /latin/intro_catullus.html (275 words)

	BCE INC (BCE) - Stock Quotes - MSN Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BCE INC (BCE) - Stock Quotes - MSN Money
		BCE Inc. to convert a portion of Series S Pref...
		BCE to be wound down, Bell Canada to convert t...
	moneycentral.msn.com /detail/stock_quote?Symbol=BCE (95 words)

	Epicurus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Epicurus is one of the major philosophers in the Hellenistic period, the three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE (and of Aristotle in 322 BCE).
		Epicurus was born around 341 BCE, seven years after Plato's death, and grew up in the Athenian colony of Samos, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
		There Epicurus founded the Garden, a combination of philosophical community and school.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/e/epicur.htm (5535 words)

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