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	6th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time of learning and philosophy.
		Solon of Athens, one of the Seven Sages of Greece (638 - 558 BC).
		Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens in 561, 559-556 and 546-528 BC.
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	550s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
		550 BC - Cyrus of Anshan overthrows Astyages of the Medes, establishing the Persian Empire.
		556 BC - Birth of Simonides of Ceos (approximate date)
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	MSN Encarta - Sumer
		During the 5th millennium bc a people known as the Ubaidians established settlements in the region known later as Sumer; these settlements gradually developed into the chief Sumerian cities, namely Adab, Eridu, Isin, Kish, Kullab, Lagash, Larsa, Nippur, and Ur.
		The first Sumerian ruler of historical record, Etana, king of Kish (flourished about 2800 bc), was described in a document written centuries later as the “man who stabilized all the lands.” Shortly after his reign ended, a king named Meskiaggasher founded a rival dynasty at Erech (Uruk), far to the south of Kish.
		Sometime before the 25th century bc the Sumerian Empire, under the leadership of Lugalanemundu of Adab (flourished about 2525-2500 bc), was extended from the Zagros to the Taurus mountains and from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
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	Simonides of Ceos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		556 BC-469 BC), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea.
		After the murder of Hipparchus (514 BC), Simonides withdrew to Thessaly, where he enjoyed the protection and patronage of the Scopadae and Aleuadae (two celebrated Thessalian families).
		His reputation as a man of learning is shown by the tradition that he introduced the distinction between the long and short vowels (ε, η, ο, ω), afterwards adopted in the Ionic alphabet which came into general use during the archonship of Eucleides (403 BC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simonides_of_Ceos (902 words)

	Tyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was besieged by Shalmaneser III, who was assisted by the Phoenicians of the mainland, for five years, and by Nebuchadnezzar (586–573 BC) for thirteen years, apparently without success.
		It afterwards fell under the power of Alexander the Great, after a siege of seven months in which he built a causeway from the mainland to the island, but continued to maintain much of its commercial importance until the Christian era.
		"It is noticed on monuments as early as 1500 BC, and claiming, according to Herodotus, to have been founded about 2700 BC." Philo of Byblos (in Eusebius) quotes the antiquarian authority Sanchuniathon as stating that it was first occupied by one Hypsuranius.
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	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Babylonia
		Toward the end of the 3rd millennium bc, Sumer and Akkad was a kingdom of empire proportions ruled by a Sumerian dynasty known as the 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
		At the beginning of the 15th century bc, for example, it was one of the four major powers of the Orient, the other three being the Egyptian, Mitanni, and Hittite empires.
		Beginning in the 9th century bc, the Chaldeans were destined to play an important political role in the history of the Orient; their rulers helped destroy the Assyrian Empire and, at least for a brief period, made Babylonia, or, as it gradually came to be known, Chaldea, the dominant power of Mesopotamia.
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	InfoAkragas.html
		480 BC Victory over the Carthaginians at Himera (in collaboration with Gelon of Gela) Akragantine territory, already very large, was extended to reach the north coast, the present town of Licata in the east and the river Platini (with Eraclea Minoa in the west.
		BC Defeat against Syracuse 415 BC Athenians on Sicily (main supporter of some of the Greek cities in western Sicily) defeated by Syracuse 409 BC Carthaginian intervention in the border conflict between Segesta and Selinous (to avoid that Selinous dominated a strip of land across Sicily) Himera and Selinous wiped out by Carthage.
		(5) 430 BC Temple of Vulcan (or Hephaestus).
	www.bio.vu.nl /home/vwielink/WWW_MGC/Area_II_map/Akragas_map/InfoAkragas.html (401 words)

	Pisistratus biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Later, Megacles was angered by the fact that Pisistratus refused to have children with his daughter, and Pisistratus was again exiled again in 556 BC by Lycurgus and Megacles.
		He returned to Athens in 546 BC with a considerable force and regained power with the support of Lygdamos of Naxos.
		Athenian coinage was introduced by about 550 BC, and may reflect policy of his, though there is no reference in contemporary documents to such.
	peistratus.biography.ms (423 words)

	Nabonidus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabu-nāʾid) was the last King of Babylon, who reigned from 556 BC to 539 BC.
		His reign was characterized by his lack of interest in the politics and religion of his kingdom, preferring instead to study the older temples and antiquities in his region.
		In 549 BC he left Babylon to live at Teyma, a rich oasis city in Arabia, leaving his son Belshazzar behind to rule the empire in his stead.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Nabonidus (314 words)

	Neo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The king fought for control of Babylonia and, by 616 BC, was able to launch attacks on Assyrian territory to the north.
		In 605 BC Nabopolassar's son, Nebuchadnezzar II, succeeded to the throne and continued the fight to control his territory, capturing Jerusalem in 589 BC.
		In 539 BC, however, the armies of Cyrus, king of Persia, invaded.
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	Ancient Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus was born about 484 BC and died some 60 years later.
		Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 BC He was a pupil of Socrates.
		B.C. and eventually was freed by his master.
	www.globusz.com /ancient.html (525 words)

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		468?, BC, Syracuse, Sicily lyric poet and epigrammatist from the Aegean island of Ceos.
		His lines on the Spartan rear guard that held the pass of Thermopylae against the Persians in 480 BC are a memorable epitaph, and such was his fame that many epigrams were later wrongfully ascribed to him.
		The fragments of his dithyrambic (impassioned, chanted) poetry, which are known to have been successful in many Athenian competitions, the remains of his choral lyrics, and his epigrams indicate that he was well-suited to express the Panhellenic ideals of the new age that developed after the Greek victories over Persia.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /english/fajardo/teaching/srp435/simonides.htm (187 words)

	BC vs. Franklin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bluffton (8-7, 1-3 HCAC) was led by Jeremy Roberts (Bucyrus/Wynford) with 26 points on 11 of 15 shooting, as the junior went over the 1,000 point mark in his career at Bluffton.
		BC went up by as many as 17 points in the first half and held a six point half time lead.
		BC canned 10 three point field goals to just four for Franklin.
	www.bluffton.edu /sports/dept/MensBasketball/1999-2000/1999-00results/01-19fran.htm (212 words)

	Babylon
		The Babylonian civilization, which endured from the 18th until the 6th century BC, was, like the Sumerian that preceded it, urban in character, although based on agriculture rather than industry.
		After Assyria freed itself of Mitanni domination early in the 14th century BC, its rulers began to interfere in the affairs of Babylonia and sought to control it politically.
		The ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC) is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
	www.crystalinks.com /babylon.html (4259 words)

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		The chronicle stresses that Nabonidus was absent in Arabia for much of his reign, thereby interrupting performances of the annual spring festival in Babylon where the king's presence was essential.
		The Babylonians were allied with Lydia and eventually in September/October 539 BC the Persian and Babylonian armies met at Opis, east of the Tigris.
		Cyrus was victorious, the cities of Sippar and Babylon surrendered, Nabonidus was captured, and the Persian king entered Babylon as the new ruler.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /compass/ixbin/print?OBJ4563 (270 words)

	Encyclopedia: 556 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	556 BC Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	70,000 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		1480 to 1450 BC Occupation of Knossos by Myceneans
		Since the discovery that the language of the Knossos tablets inscribed in the 'Linear B' script is Greek, it has been inferred that it was the product of an occupation of Knossos by Greek-speaking invaders.
		1350 BC Attica inhabited by Mycenaeans (Mycenaean tombs).
	www.herodion.gr /grhist.htm (2022 words)

	Sappho (fl. about 650-590 bc ), Greek poet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		about 650-590 bc), Greek poet, whose poetry was so renowned that Plato referred to her two centuries after her death as the tenth muse.
		She was born on the island of Lesvos, probably in Mitylene.
		Later writers of antiquity, commenting upon the group, accused Sappho of immorality and vice, from which arose the modern terms for female homosexuality, "lesbianism" and "sapphism." Sappho wrote nine books of odes, epithalamia or wedding songs, elegies, and hymns, but the extant fragments are few.
	www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/sappho.htm (301 words)

	CNN/SI - Football - Box Score: British Columbia Lions at Saskatchewan Roughriders - August 16, 1997
		BC 25-10 BCL - FG, LUI PASSAGLIA 22 YD, 15:00.
		BC 28-10 3RD QUARTER: SAS - FG, PAUL MCCALLUM 40 YD, 2:31.
		BC 36-26 BCL - FG, LUI PASSAGLIA 47 YD, 15:00.
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	Timeline of the Bible
		The returning exiles completed the rebuilding of the temple in 520 BC at the urging of Haggai and Zechariah.
		In 168 BC, Antiochus IV desecrated the Jerusalem Temple and made the practice of Jewish religion a capital offense.
		In 167 BC the Jewish priest Mattathias began the Maccabean Revolt against the Greek rulers and their pagan practices.
	www.sundayschoolresources.com /timeline.htm (1128 words)

	558 BC
		558 BC Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
		Decades: 600s BC 590s BC 580s BC 570s BC 560s BC - '550s BC\' - 540s BC 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC
		561 BC 560 BC 559 BC - 558 BC - 557 BC 556 BC 555 BC 554 BC 553 BC 552 BC 551 BC
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	simonides
		Simonides of Ceos, born in 556 BC, was a professional poet of considerable repute at the end of the sixth century and the start of the fifth.
		Because of his fame he was commissioned to write numerous epitaphs and dedicatory inscriptions.
		For our purposes, they are all equally useful as illustrations of Greek thinking about valor and death in battle in the early part of the fifth century BC.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /rosivach/cl115/simonides.htm (540 words)

	Nabonidus -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		king of Babylonia from 556 until 539 BC, when Babylon fell to Cyrus, king of Persia.
		After a popular rising led by the priests of Marduk, chief god of the city, Nabonidus, who favoured the moon god Sin, made his son Belshazzar coregent and spent much of his reign in Arabia.
		Returning to Babylon in 539 BC, he was captured by Cyrus' general Gobryas and exiled.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054607 (394 words)

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		The contents were found in 1902 during excavations by the `Deutschen Orientgesellschaft' under the direction of Ludwig Borchardt in the vicinity of the pyramids of Ni-user-re conventionally dated to ca.
		It shows the ruler seated on a throne with a foot stool and decorated with carvings with his scribe standing before him, their right arm raised in a greeting.
		The text, which is written in classic Egyptian and engraved in hieroglyphs using a particularly astute procedure, begins with a preamble relating the royal entry, followed by an emphatic praise of the sovereign.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /eop5.html (5771 words)

	Chart of Integrated Assyrian, Egyptian and Judean History
		the years between 616-609 BC is found on B.M. published in 1923 by C.J. Gadd, The Fall of Niniveh'.
		01) 586 BC, the Babylonians destroy Jerusalem, conquer Judah and install Gedaliah as governor who rules from Mizpah.
		According to archaeologists, Gedaliah rebuilds the town on a grander level as his administrative center.
	www.specialtyinterests.net /chart_assyria_egypt_juda.html (530 words)

	The Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon, 625BC to 539BC
		720 BC: recapture of Samaria and exile of inhabitants [cite]
		701 BC: Assyrian deportations from Jerusalem and Judah [cite]
		556 BC: Nabonidus's dream of Marduk and Sin commanding restoration of Assyrian moon-god Sin's temple in Harran (where Nabonidus's 'father' had been priest until the Assyrian conquest of 610BC), via alliance with Cyrus [hpe36]
	www.robotwisdom.com /science/chaldeans.html (2121 words)

	Ancient Quotes and Quoations
		Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
		Agesilaus the Second 443 ~ 359 BC, King of Sparta 401-360 BC It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
		Sima Qian 145 BC ~ 86 BC, Chinese Historian
	www.stevenredhead.com /quotes/ancient (1770 words)

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