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	5th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 5th century BC started on January 1, 500 BC and ended on December 31, 401 BC.
		The 5th and 4th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations, particularly the Greeks.
		In Athens and elsewhere in the Mediterranean world, the 5th century marks a high point in the development of political institutions, art, architecture, and literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/5th_century_BC (2666 words)

	ANISTORITON: Archaeology News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 369 BCE Theban general Epameinondas liberated Messene and built the city of Messene, as the capital of the new autonomous Messenian State.
		Parts of statues of the local artist Damophon, who lived in early 2nd BCE century, have been found and are examples of monumental sculpture that is rare outside Athens.
		In about 10.000 BCE inhabitants of Greece traveled from the mainland to the island of Melos and/or vice versa to get opsedian rock needed in lithic times as it was proven by a papyrus boat built in 1988.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/a002.htm (703 words)

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		The 5th century BCE was a period of great development in Ancient Greece, and specifically in Athens.
		Its territory in the 5th century and the first half of the 6th century appears to have covered modern Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, and the Brythonic colony on the Continent later known as Brittany.
		Ancient Greeks from the 5th century BC onwards were fascinated by the question of the origins of tragedy and comedy.
	www.lycos.com /info/5th-century.html (498 words)

	History \| Echmiadzin: TourArmenia
		In the 4th millennium BCE the cyclopic walls of Lechashen have been erected by Lake Sevan, while in the Ararat valley cities at Shengavit, Aigevan and Aigeshat were established.
		By 3000 BCE a large kingdom was established around Metsamor with additional cities at MokhraBlur, Jerahovit, Lejapi Blur, Voski Blur (Voski means "golden" in Armenian), and a settlement now known as Echmiadzin.
		Shengavit is distinct among the cities in Armenia for its use of round shaped dwellings made from river stones and mud brick.
	www.tacentral.com /echmiadzin/efs-4a.htm (606 words)

	Semitic Museum - Nuzi - Yorghan Tepe (NF)
		Early 2nd Millennium BCE: Belonging to this period are a jar decorated with triangles and horizontal bands, an example of Habur Ware, and a bird-shaped vessel.
		Late 4th Millennium BCE: This period is represented by a beveled-rim bowl, characteristic of the Late Uruk Period, and by stamp seals.
		It comes from the late 3rd millennium BCE and is the earliest known map in existence.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/hsm/NFNuziRest.htm (539 words)

	Olympia
		The Gymnasium, located to the northwest of the Altis, is a 2nd century BCE building that consists of an open area surrounded by stoas on all four sides.
		The Palaestra, erected during the 3rd century BCE, was used for the practice of wrestling, boxing and long jumping.
		The Greek Baths were built in the 5th century BCE and modified in later periods.
	www.grisel.net /olympia.htm (1403 words)

	Heritage
		From the 6th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, the Land of Israel was conquered first by the Persians, then the Greeks, and finally the Romans.
		At the end of the 3rd century BCE, the Hellenized rulers of Syria known as the Seleucids wrested control of Judea from the Ptolemys, the Hellenized rulers of Egypt.
		Judah the Maccabee led a revolt in 164 BCE and full Jewish sovereignty was established in Judea in 140 BCE.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/heritage/episode2/index.html (523 words)

	Samovila-Yemaya
		Scatha's helmet is from a Celtic grave in Ciumesti, Romania, 3rd century BCE ; her torque is from Snettisham (Norfolk), England, mid 1st century BCE.
		Her necklace is from Deir el-Balah, 14th-13th century BCE; her earring is from a falcon pendant from Tell el-Ajjul, mid 2nd millennium BCE.
		3500 BCE, near Belgrade, Yugoslavia; on the left is a Goddess with a siren, canines and lions, 5th century BCE, Kherson mound, Ukraine; gold headdress after one found at Chertomlyk, 4th century BCE; bottom layer after a diadem from Kelermes, 6th century BCE; earring from Olbia, 5th century BCE; torque from Chertomlyk, 4th century BCE.
	www.goddessmyths.com /Samovila-Yemaya.html (1500 words)

	Christianity vs Paganism
		It was on this date, October 9, 28 BCE, that the Temple of Apollo was dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
		This temple was the most magnificent of Augustus' buildings, constructed of solid blocks of white Luna marble, and the doors were decorated with reliefs in ivory, one representing the rescue of Delphi from the Celts, and the other the fate of the Niobids.
		BCE], one of Diana by Timotheus [5th cent.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1009b-almanac.htm (645 words)

	Megiddo - The Solomonic Chariot City
		A village had been established on the hill of Megiddo at the end of the 6th millennium BCE, but the first fortified urban settlement, remains of which were uncovered on bedrock in the eastern part of the tel, dates from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE.
		Towards the end of the 2nd millennium BCE, a new Canaanite temple was built on the ruins of its predecessors; it had especially thick walls and included a small cultic chamber with two towers protecting its façade.
		Megiddo was apparently conquered and destroyed in 732 BCE, during the campaign of Tiglath Pilesser III, king of Assyria, against the Kingdom of Israel.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/Megiddo.html (2002 words)

	Furniture of Ancient Greece
		Early Greek chests from the 6th and 7th centuries BCE were made with elongated square posts and roof-like lids.
		According to Lucie-Smith (1979), in ancient Greek society from the 7th century BCE to 4th century BCE, there were 5 main types of furniture and little else: stools, couches, small tables, chests, and chairs.
		In the 4th and 5th centuries, once the Greeks developed their own style, furniture became less square and rigid and more curved and flowing.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/Greek/Furniture.html (1306 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Elamite
		From as early as the 8th millenium BCE, clay tokens of different shapes were used to represent commodities such as grain, livestock, alcohol, and manufactured goods for economic record-keeping and transactions.
		And like the rest of Mesopotamia, by the late 4th millenium BCE clay tokens were being stored inside bullae, oblong or spherical clay envelopes stamped with seal impressions, which most likely indicated the owners or contents of the tokens inside the envelopes.
		Only starting from the 13th century BCE onward did the Elamite language reappear in the archaeological record, but at this point in time the Elamite had borrowed and adapted the cuneiform script to write their language.
	www.ancientscripts.com /elamite.html (1005 words)

	tragedy
		A plan of the Theater of Dionysus during the late 5th century BCE, with the round orchestra and less elaborate skene.
		In this amphora from Campania (c.330 BCE), she has killed one child and grabs the other by the hair.
		In this play, Euripides gives resurrects the chorus for a major role (unlike many of his plays), and presents the disastrous end of a young tyrant who tries to be old fashioned and heroic by resisting the newest religious fad...and yet reflects new logical, skeptical trends by refusing to recognize Dionysus' power.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/achilles/tragedy/tragedy.html (934 words)

	The Advaita Vedânta Home Page - Sankara's Date
		BCE date for Sankara also seem to forget that the evidence of Hsuan Tsang with respect to dharmakIrti is too strong to be neglected.
		BCE date does not really come from any ancient tradition, notwithstanding the high-pitched rhetoric of those who claim otherwise.
		Still, these modern proponents of the 5th century BCE date perhaps forget that the date of Christ has little relevance to events in Indian history, except for fixing dates according to international convention.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /avhp/dating-Sankara.html (2814 words)

	Daniel, date of, authorship date
		Naturalists use 165 BCE as the date of authorship for the book of Daniel.
		Perhaps the easiest way of understanding why Daniel was written about 530 BCE is by using the English language from another era.
		The Dead Sea Scrolls are known to have been written in the era of 170 BCE to 50 CE.
	www.harvardhouse.com /Daniel_date-written.htm (1500 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Greek
		From the shape of the letters, it is clear that the Greeks adopted the alphabet the Phoenician script, mostly like during the late 9th century BCE.
		Boustrophedon was an intermediate stage, and by the 5th century BCE, left-to-right was the de-facto direction of writing.
		Between 1500 and 1200 BCE, the Mycenaeans, an early tribe of Greeks, has adapted the Minoan syllabary as Linear B to write an early form of Greek.
	www.ancientscripts.com /greek.html (489 words)

	PrimaryHistory562BCE
		Jeremiah's prophecy was a failed one though, as in 550 BCE the Medes as a great empire ceased to exist, having been defeated and absorbed by the Persians under Cyrus.
		She understands that it was only in the 7th century BCE that a village again appeared, but it was un-walled and came to an end when destroyed by the Babylonians.
		If she is correct, then Jericho's re-founding in the 7th century BCE, not 9th century, is another archaeological marker that the Primary History cannot be a composition of an earlier period.
	www.bibleorigins.net /PrimaryHistory562BCE.html (5245 words)

	ArtLex on Egyptian Art
		Statue of Amenemhat III (reigned 1850-1800 BCE), 19th century BC, diorite-gneiss, height 86.5 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Egypt, 203 BCE, Rosetta Stone, a slab of granite, 3 feet 9 inches x 2 feet 4 inches wide x 11 inches thick (118 x 77cm), the remains of a stele inscribed in three scripts: hieroglyphic, later Egyptian demotic -- a cursive form of ancient Egyptian, and ancient Greek.
		Carved on the stone is a decree by Egyptian priests to commemorate the crowning of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, king of Egypt from 203 - 181 BCE The Stone is an icon of script and decipherment.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/egyptian.html (1006 words)

	ArtLex on Bronze
		Bridle Plaque in the Form of a Resting Stag, mid 5th century BCE, bronze, 4.7 x 4.7 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
		Greece, 5th century v, Hydria, bronze, height 37.5 cm, Louvre.
		Etruscan, Gabies, late 4th or early 3rd century BCE, Oinochoe in the Form of a Young Man's Head, bronze, height 30.2 cm, Louvre.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/b/bronze.html (630 words)

	A "Golden Age" for Athens?
		The 5th century and the Athenian Empire gave birth to an amazing amount of accomplishments.
		Athenian democracy is perhaps considered the crowning achievement of the 5th century BCE.
		I would say that the 5th century BCE was as much a "Golden Age" for man as either of the above mentioned time periods.
	essay.studyarea.com /old_essay/history/athens.html (1111 words)

	Early history - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		This article details the timeline since the 5th Millennium BCE until the 16th century.
		BCE: 5th Millennium BCE / 4th Millennium BCE / 3rd Millennium BCE / 2nd Millennium BCE / 1st Millennium BCE
		The notation BCE ("Before Common Era") and CE ("Common Era") are alternative, more politically correct notations for BC ("Before Christ") and AD ("anno Domini"), respectively.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Early_History (1666 words)

	Ancient Corinth
		(5000-3000 BCE), its history is obscure until the early 8th century BCE, when the city-state of Corinth began to develop as a commercial center.
		Until it was eclipsed by Athens in the 5th century BCE, Corinth was the biggest and wealthiest classical Greek city-state, with two bustling ports, a famous ceramics industry and distant colonies in Syracuse in Sicily and Kerkyra on Corfu.
		The town was prosperous until it was razed in 146 BCE by the Roman general, Lucius Mummius.
	www.grisel.net /corinth.htm (492 words)

	Hellenic Tribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the 12th century BCE they began migrating southward, and three separate Doric tribes (Hylleis, Pamphyloi, and the Dymanes) settled in eastern and southern Peloponnesus, displacing the native Achaeans.
		For a variety of reasons, the 17th to 13th centuries BCE saw a general retreat, one which did not begin to reverse itself until the 9th century BCE (leading to the eventual flowering of Classic-Age civilization by the 5th century).
		) in the reign of Merneptah (roughly 1230 BCE).
	www.hostkingdom.net /gktrib.html (3300 words)

	Greek Sculpture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The "bronze hollow cast" figure begins as clay, a soft easily worked material that allows for extremely fine details; it is these fine details that the Greek artists sought to enhance the realism of the figure.
		The statue is marble, from c.150 bce and is 6'7" in height.
		"Athena and Alcyoneus" frieze from the Altar of Zeus at Pergamum, c.180 bce.
	www.accd.edu /sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Greek3.htm (583 words)

	Visual Arts: The Art of Achaemenids
		Cyrus defeated his grandfather about 550 BCE and succeeded in welding Persians and Medes into an effective army with which he could undertake conquests beyond the frontiers of Iran.
		In world history Cyrus is known as much for his victory over Croesus of Lydia (547 BCE) as for his generosity toward the Jews, to whom he reputedly granted permission to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and bring back to it the gold and silver utensils which Nebuchadnezzar had taken to Babylon.
		At Persepolis, where Darius may have begun to build in 520 BCE, the fortifications and military quarters were erected first and, almost at the same time, the [p.
	www.iranchamber.com /art/articles/art_of_achaemenids.php (3840 words)

	5th Century B.C.E.
		If your grandfather had been consul you were nobile regardless of your families status as patrician or plebian.
		The greatest constitutional reforms of the 5th century were the establishment of the office of tribuni plebis, the writing down of Roman laws in the
		By the end of the century, Rome had made successful onslaughts into Etruscan territory, and Etruria's days of dominance were at an end.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/5th.cen.htm (570 words)

	Delphi - Andrea Roche
		BCE, and it has continuously been inhabited since then.
		century BCE, in the year 373 BCE there seemed to have been an earthquake and a flood at Delphi.
		From 356-346 BCE, the Phocians, allied with the Athenians and Spartans, occupied
	alpha.furman.edu /~jpitts/29-delphi.htm (1614 words)

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		BCE; Ceremonial Headpiece of a Chariot Pony, DETAIL;fr.
		BCE -CE;Dublin, National Museum of Ireland Bone Flake;;216426;216426;Tools and Utensils;bone;Insular La Tène;Lough Crew, Co. Meath;Ireland;1st c.
		BCE; Model of the Oppidum at;;216478;216478;Architecture;misc., architectural model;La Tène;Manching, Bavaria, Oppidum;Germany;2-1st c.
	www.unc.edu /celtic/images/image.txt (9127 words)

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