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  ji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ji (姬 jī in Chinese) is the family name of the family in control of the Zhou Dynasty (周朝 late 10th century BC to late 9th century - 256 BC) (Wade-Giles Chou Dynasty) followed the Shang Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China.
Note: all dates are approximate until 841 BC when the first accurate dating of Chinese history began.
Dong Zhou dynasty(Eastern Zhou dynasty, 东周) 770 BC-256 BC'''
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 Zhou Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 771 BC, after King You had replaced his queen with a concubine Baosi, he was then sacked by the joint force of the queen's father, who was the powerful Marquess of Shen, and the barbarians.
The capital was moved eastward in 722 BC to Luoyang in present-day Henan Province.
The first, from 722 to 481 BC, is called the Spring and Autumn Period, after a famous historical chronicle of the time; the second is known as the Warring States Period (403 BC-221 BC).
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 Athletics in Ancient Sikyon
396 BC Bykelos, the first Sikyonian to win the boys boxing-match, had his statue made by Kanachos the younger of Sikyon, a pupil of Polykleitos.
Sostratos won three consecutive victories at the Olympic games (364, 360, 356 BC), as the inscription on his statue at Olympia indicated.
Sikyonian coins from 320 BC have a representation of him.
www.sikyon.com /Sicyon/athletics_eg.html   (128 words)

  
 ireland.com / Today / Sport / Olympics 2004
During the 14th Olympiad of 724 BC the diaulos was added to the stadion, thus doubling the number of athletic events.
In 680 BC, which marked the 25th Olympiad, chariot races were introduced and staged in the Hippodrome, where the circuit measured four stades, or 769 metres, although distances varied at different sites.
In 500 BC the apene races were introduced, in which the chariots were pulled by two mules.
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 History
There is firm evidence that in the third millennium BC, Damascus was a population center of a civilization that was considerably prosperous and economically influential.
The year 333 BC was a turning point in Syria's history; in this year, the armies of Alexander the Great swept through the near east, marking the start of an age of classical civilization that lasted until 630 AD.
In 64 BC, the Roman General Pompey annexed Syria and declared it as a province of the Roman Empire.
www.damascus-online.com /damascus.htm   (5344 words)

  
 6th century BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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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 TIMELINE 2nd MILLENIUM B.C. page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
[Hammond Almanac, p.789] 520-465 BC Xerxes I, King of Persia was the son of Darius I and grandson of Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire.
paraphrased from the visually strong HyperHistory c.518-c.438 BC Pindar, Greek Poet, was born in Boetia, central Greece, and is considered the greatest of the Greek choral lyricists.
c.250 BC "Archimedes studied the equilibrium of planes and the centre of gravity of planes and deduced the laws of the levers.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline1KBC.html   (7141 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Gentile Times Reconsidered: Chronology & Christ's Return: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
End of 602 BC Ezekiel is already among the first captives brought to Babylon (Ezek 1:1-4), Ezek: 1: 1 is a conclusive sentence about all his set of visions when he finished having them (around 572 BC) and start writing about his visions.
In 593 BC, the army of Nebuchadnezzar are still present in Babylon from 596 BC as it was told in Daniel 1: 5 that their food ration for the second invasion should last for 3 years.
522 BC A usurper of the crown of Persia (Smerdis) arose.
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 Tyre Speciality
Between +/-1200 BC and 1020 BC, Canaan was divided between the 12 tribes of Israel - Tyre was included in the northern most territory and was part of the territories of the tribe of "Asher" (Joshua 19:29-31).
Between 925 BC to 842 BC, Israel's King Ahab married Jezebel the daughter of the Tyrian king Ethbaal who introduced the cult of the Phoenician god Baal to Israel (Kings II 16:29-31).
Egypt fell to Babylon in 572 BC (Ezekiel 26-29).
www.ancientcash.info /page-2/Tyre.html   (2027 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Damascus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After Tiglath-Pileser III captured and destroyed the city in 732 BC, it lost its independence for hundreds of years, and it fell under the Neo-Babylonian rule of Nebuchadnezzar starting in 572 BC.
The Babylonian rule of the city came to an end in 538 BC when the Persians under Cyrus captured the city and made it the capital of the Persian province of Syria.
The Battle of Karkar (or Qarqar) was fought in 853 BC when the army of Assyria, led by king Shalmaneser III, encountered an allied army of 12 kings led by Hadadezer of Damascus.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Damascus   (7143 words)

  
 Redating the First Deportation of Judah  |  Jim Hopkins   |  Preterist Archive
Ezekiel also prophesied in 571 BC (fifteen years after the fall of Jerusalem) that Egypt would be given to Nebuchadnezzar as wages for his service against Tyre in which he labored thirteen years and received no wages.
Some use 605 BC after the fall of Carchemish, but this poses the additional problem of being the fourth year of Jehoiakim rather than the third as stated by Daniel.
The only reason for the fabrication of a deportation in the year 606 or 605 BC is the statement of Daniel concerning the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim.
www.preteristarchive.com /Preterism/hopkins-jim_p_04.html   (4622 words)

  
 Tuma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
3000 BC: The wreck of the Beagle, which has brought so much suffering and destruction to Mystara, is metamorphosed by the Pandian Council into the magical Nucleus of the Spheres, and it is moved from its original location to a huge cavern deep beneath the surface of Brun.
561 BC: A member of the Council of Alphatia, a wizard named Arkenas, who specialises in extradimensional magic, happens almost by blind luck to discover the wreck of the FSS Beagle (the Nucleus of the Spheres) beneath the continent of Brun, in Orc territory.
The Orcs are routed and massacred by the Dwarves.
www.mystaranet.jamm.com /vaults/html/tuma.html   (1637 words)

  
 577 bc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
579 BC - Servius Tullius becomes king of Rome.
570 BC - Amasta II succeeds Apries as king of Egypt
576 BC - Cyrus the Great, later King of Anshan and Persia (approximate date).
www.yourencyclopedia.net /577_BC.html   (150 words)

  
 Zhou Dynasty - China History - China
The first, from 722 to 481 BC, is called the Spring and Autumn Period, after a famous historical chronicle of the time; the second is known as the Warring States Period.
572 BC or 571 BC-545 BC Jing (景 jing3)
255 BC-249 BC Note: nobles of the Ji family proclaimed King Hui of Eastern Zhou (Dong Zhou Hui Wang) as the successor to the dynasty after Luoyang fell to Qin.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Zhou_Dynasty   (814 words)

  
 Sites to be seen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Founded in 303 BC by Nicator, a general of Seleucos 1, on the site of an Assyrian fortress named Dawara, the town becomes Dura, meaning fortress in the ancient semite language, and Europos in memory of the birthplace of Seleucos 1 Nicator in Macedonia.
Mari was founded in the 3rd millenium BC in order to control the river and caravan traffic from which the town perceived taxes.
The 18th century BC is marked by the glorious reign of Zamri Lim who built a palace of 300 richly decorated rooms, serving as an active political, economical, and administrative center.
almanar.homepage.t-online.de /tobeseen.htm   (7377 words)

  
 Olympic Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although the ancient Olympic games were first recorded in 776 BC, they originated at least a century before that and possibly as early as the 13th century BC.
Evidently, the festival was reorganized in 776 BC, which was considered the start of the first Olympiad.
There were three other major pan-Hellenic festivals, the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmian, all of which included fairs, but the festival at Olympia became pre-eminent by 572 BC, when Elis and Sparta entered into an alliance under which Elis was in charge of the event itself while Sparta enforced the sacred truce.
trevinosgymnastics.com /learn/events.html   (1192 words)

  
 BC Alpine Ski Association News Release #572: BC Team Men Dominate Pontiac GMC Cup Downhill Sunday; 2/8/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Filling the third podium spot, from the Mount Washington Ski Club and the BC Ski Team, was Dustin Fraser in 1:07.76.
BC Team’s Graham Kraft of the Silver Star Racers captured the 4th spot for the day while team mate Ben Chaddock of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club captured finished 5th.
The boys of BC grabbed two more top 15 spots, with Matthew Holler of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, wearing bib number 61, wrapping up the day in 11th place and Chris Colpitts, also from the Whistler Mountain Ski Club finishing 13th.
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 Chinese History - Zhou Dynasty rulers (www.chinaknowledge.org)
781-770 BC During the flight from the western capital to the east, the Zhou kings relied on the help of the lords of Qin 秦 and Jin 晉.
The rulers of the Spring and Autumn period (Chunqiu 春秋) were mere a nominal head of the multiple states that had nothing more to do than to worship its own ancestors, and their names are not more than a simple list.
519-476 BC Already during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Zhou kings had fully lost their authoritative position.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Zhou/zhou-rulers.html   (640 words)

  
 Utopianism, Anarchism, & The Rainbow Nation
The vision of a society based on cooperation and liberty was elaborated in the writings of
(612 - 531 BC), the Chinese founder of Taoism; and by
(336 - 264 BC), representatives of the Greek Cynic and Stoic philosophies respectively.
www.luminist.org /church/2.htm   (760 words)

  
 Ji
Thirty-nine members of the family ruled over China during this period.
春秋時代 (chun1 qiu1 shi2 dai4) Spring and Autumn Period 722 BC-481 BC
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Anacreon
572-488 bc), Greek lyric poet, born in Teos, Asia Minor (now Siğacik, Turkey).
Star-Spangled Banner, The, national anthem of the United States, approved by act of Congress on March 3, 1931.
In the 6th century bc the poet Anacreon's playful lyrics on wine and love were written in various lyric metres; subsequent verse similar in tone and...
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 Abinos Travel & Tourism - Your vacation consulting & tour operator in Syria
In the 9th century BC, Aleppo is an Aramaean capital then the Assyrians (738), the Babylonians (6th century BC) and the Persians all took turns in conquering the city.
The town, was born again from ashes, restarted commercial activities and grew despite the second destruction in 2000 BC.
Ebla became politically weaker during the Assyrian domination and in 1625 BC, and the Hittites ravaged it.
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 570s BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
570s BC 570s BC Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC
579 BC - Servius Tullius succeeds the assassinated Lucius Tarquinius Priscus as king of Rome.
572 BC - Death of Zhou jian wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/5/570s-BC.htm   (197 words)

  
 Genealogy of the Huang Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 359 BC Gongsun Yang 公孙鞅 (also known as Shang Yang 商鞅), a Legalist*, succeeded in persuading Lord Xiao of Qin 秦孝公 to implement strict laws and force all citizens into "productive occupations" such as agriculture and the army.
In 356 BC, fearing misfortune might befall him and his family, he emigrated to 'Xin Luo' 新罗 (Korea) with his family and lived at the north of Yuan Shan 元山 (?).
When he was 20 (in 295 BC) he returned to study in his ancestral land China,and lived at Qianzhong (present-day Changde city, Hunan province).
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 Is The Bible The Only Book You Have Given?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
- predicted in 590 BC - fulfilled in 572 BC Nebuchadnezzar would receive no spoil (Ezekiel 29:18)
- predicted in 590 BC - fulfilled in 572 BC 3) The dust of the city would be scraped and ruins thrown into the sea
- predicted in 590 BC - NOT fulfilled in 572 BC - fulfilled in 332 BC by Alexander the Great
douglasshillschurchofchrist.org /bulletin/mbf4.htm   (345 words)

  
 C.P.E. Bach: Chronological List
Not included are anthologies, since his involvement in these was probably limited to supplying copies of individual works.
Trio, vln, vla, bc, composed with JSB] {*542.5 (BWV 1020).
Wedding Cantata] Works revised in 1769: [557 (So10, W. Sonata, g, vc, bc] By 1770 *241 (W. [Clavierstück], one hand 1770-2 723 (W. Der Frühling 1770 242 (N168, W. Concerto, F (solo vers.) 470 (C43, W. Concerto, F [783.
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 Abdicate - Chronology accorging to Scripture
561 BC Jehoiachin is released from prison by Evil-merodach in the 37th year of his captivity on Adar 27th day @ 55 years old having been taken in the month Sivan, II Kings 25:27-30
538 BC Cyrus the Persian took Babylon at 62 Daniel 5:30-31, this is his accession year for Babylon.
Cyrus comes and takes over Babylon and rules 9 years (538 - 529 BC) Ezra 1:1, all of Israel can return to build the house of God, 49 years after the destruction of the temple.
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Ji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ji (and#23020; jand#299; in Chinese) is the family name of the family in control of the Zhou Dynasty (and#21608;and#26397; late 10th century BC to late 9th century - 256 BC) (Wade-Giles Chou Dynasty) followed the Shang Dynasty and preceded the Qin Dynasty in China.
Dong Zhou dynasty(Eastern Zhou dynasty, and#19996;and#21608;) 770 BC-256 BC
and#26149;and#31179;and#26178;and#20195; (chun1 qiu1 shi2 dai4) Spring and Autumn Period 722 BC-481 BC
www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=ji&   (235 words)

  
 Untitled Document
110 103 Wicho Loft (Luis Suarez) HRPC-1185 BC 10:30:24,90
148 136 Vic and Rick VIR-705 BC 10:30:46,50
319 125 Cobra Loft I (Phong Pham) A-33482 BC --:--:--,--
www.cbspigeon.com /MercedesClassic150mileRaceResults.html   (850 words)

  
 Phil 301: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
An introductory survey of western philosophy from the 6th-century B.C. Presocratics to the 16th-century Scholastics.
Pyrrho of Elis 360-270 BC William of Ockham 1285-1347
Zeno of Citium 336-265 BC Peter D'Ailly 1350-1420
www.nd.edu /~afreddos/courses/301/phil301-spring.htm   (478 words)

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