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Homosexuality as a social norm evidently arose in Greece at a specific time, the late 600s
This new social custom probably derived in part from the military reorganizations that swept Greek cities after the arrival of Hoplite tactics in the 600s
Other, related social changes at this time included the glorification of masculinity and (at Sparta) the elimination of family life by the mass military training of boys.
fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0262   (1974 words)

  
  Smyrna - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Strangers or refugees from the Ionian city of Colophon settled in the city and finally (traditionally in 688 BCE) by an uprising Smyrna passed into their hands and became the thirteenth of the Ionian city-states.
A strong fortress, the ruins of whose ancient and massive walls are still imposing, on a hill in the pass between Smyrna and Nymphi, was probably built by the Smyrnaean Ionians to command the valley of Nymphi.
Finally, Alyattes III (609–560 BCE) conquered the city and sacked it, and though Smyrna did not cease to exist, the Greek life and political unity were destroyed, and the polis was reorganized on the village system.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Smyrna   (1676 words)

  
 Carcassonne
It stands in the gap between the Pyrenees and the central massif[?] of France.
Carcassonne became strategically important when Romans fortified the hilltop around 100 BCE and eventually made it the capital of a colony of Julia Carsaco, later Carcasum.
In the 600s, Visigoths took over and built more fortifications that still stand.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Carcassonne.html   (479 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Timeline of Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
100s BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, the son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya-Tissa.
Early 600s: Jingwan begins carving sutras on to stone at Fangshan, Yuzhou, 75km south-west of modern day Beijing.
600s: Xuan Zang travelled to India, noting the persecution of Buddhists by Sasanka (king of Gouda, a state in north-west Bengal), before returning to Chang An in China to translate Buddhist scriptures.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Timeline_of_Buddhism   (2796 words)

  
 Tthornton : Period 3500BCE to 587 BCE
About the year 3500 B.C.E., Semitic clans in the Arabian peninsula, responding to pressures of over population in a region with limited resources, began migrating northward out of the area.
Ramses II is traditionally regarded as the pharaoh of the biblical account of Moses and the Hebrews in Egypt, although this is disputed.
During the eleventh century B.C.E., the camel was introduced into Palestine and Syria by the invading Midianites, as mentioned in Judges 6:5.
www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/period_3500bce_to_587_bce.htm   (2533 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:Acropolis,_Athens
Centuries: 8th century BCE - 7th century BCE - 6th century BCE Decades: 680s BCE 670s BCE 660s BCE 650s BCE 640s BCE - 630s BCE - 620s BCE 610s BCE 600s BCE 590s BCE 580s BCE [edit] 637 BCE - Josiah becomes king of Judah.
632 BCE - In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies d...
Erechtheum, from SW The Erechtheum, or Erechtheion, is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece, notable for a design that is both elegant and unusual.
www.qwika.com /rels/Talk:Acropolis,_Athens   (1465 words)

  
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By the 400s BCE, the rising wealth from trade transformed the structure of Athenian society and politics.
As small farmers began to sell out and lose out to rich landowners in the 600s BCE, political tensions rose, and an aristocratic leader by the name of Solon attempted in 594 a series of laws to ease those tensions.
Smaller cities were not allowed to withdraw their membership or their payments to the League treasury, which was moved to Athens under the leadership of the popular leader of the Athenian democracy in the years between 460 BCE and 430.
www.augie.edu /dept/history/athe.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Old World Contacts/Merchants & Traders/Samarkand
Samarkand, located in an area of the central Asian steppes called Sogdiana, was already an established regional trade oasis when Alexander the Great captured it in 329 BCE.
During the CE 600s, Hsuan-tsang, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim-explorer, described Samarkand as a great city surrounded by an impressive wall and filled with exotic goods from distant countries.
As a major transit centre, Samarkand was also a magnet for foreign customs and ideas borne along the Asian caravan routes by merchants, military armies, and missionaries.
www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/merchants/samarkand.html   (667 words)

  
 Study Aid
After considering all the sets, discuss what/whose interests in the late 600-500s BCE may have been served by the biblical version.
The Jezebel Letters emphasizes that the Jerusalem-based biblical accounts concerning the ninth century (800s bce) were probably written in the late 600s bce, when ideas about worshipping only Yhwh were gaining greater acceptance.
Reflect on the uniformly negative evaluations of the northern kings (and queens) by later Jerusalemite authors of 1–2 Kings in light of this relationship.
www.thejezebelletters.com /study.htm   (1341 words)

  
 The Visionaries: Xenophanes, Empedocles and Heraclitus
Circumstances lent themselves particularly well to this kind of formulation, because certainly from the 8th century BCE onwards, Ionia was the centre of the most highly developed culture of poetry in the western world.
Xenophanes of Colophon, born around 570 BCE, was one of these wandering poets who communicated his way of seeing the world and of gaining access to knowledge during his numerous journeys across the whole of Greater Greece (1)).
2: In 545 BCE Ionia was invaded by the Persians.
www.pasteur.fr /recherche/unites/REG/causeries/Visionaries.html   (4206 words)

  
 HI 100A Section 1 R & S Guide
Describe and assess the reasons and dynamics of Qin unification and brief rule of late 3rd century BCE China.
Describe and explain the situation, rule, society, and beliefs of the Israelites as of the height of the Israelite Monarchy under Solomon (10th C BCE).
Describe and assess Athenian Greece at its mid-5th century BCE "Golden Age" height.
www.washburn.edu /cas/history/stucker/100Areview2s2003.html   (305 words)

  
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Ionian Greeks arrived and founded the historical Miletus, which became the southernmost city of the Greek region known as Ionia.
Expert seafarers, the Milesians led the way in the expansion of the Greek world in the 600s
They exported prized woolens and metalwork, and founded a remarkable string of colonies along the trade route to the Black Sea, as far as distant Crimea.
www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0329   (370 words)

  
  The Greeks to 480 BCE
He is credited with having written, sometime before 700 BCE, the epic poem the Iliad, a story that had been passed from generation to generation by those who told stories from memory, a story about war between the Mycenae Greeks and the city of Troy.
In 621 BCE, while unrest was rising among the poor of Athens, a man named Draco (Drako) led the ruling oligarchy in Athens.
And among the aristocrats of Miletus was an independence of thought that was a part of an effort toward individual excellence that had been encouraged as justification for their privileges.
www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch07b-eu.htm   (7498 words)

  
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Neoplatonism is the Platonic philosophy systematized in the Enneads of Plotinus (205-270 CE), whose thought was further developed by others through the sixth century.
Earlier, in the first century BCE, the "divine Plato" had been revived as the supreme religious and theological authority by the Middle Platonists; at about the same time the Neo-Pythagorean philosophers were active.
Plotinus was influenced by both of these theistic and apophtic (negative) schools, which upheld the transcendence of a supreme mind and being called theos (God) and placed within this mind the Platonic forms conceived as divine Ideas.
www.lycoszone.com /info/neoplatonism.html   (647 words)

  
 [Regents Prep Global History] Movement of People & Goods: Early Peoples
During the New Kingdom, (1550 BCE - 1100 BCE) powerful pharaohs conquered an empire that stretched from Nubia in the south, to the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia.
Nubia conquered Egypt in the 8th century BCE, and ruled for about 100 years.
By the early 600s BCE, the Assyrians had conquered the entire Fertile Crescent, but their
regentsprep.org /Regents/global/themes/movement/erl.cfm   (477 words)

  
 odyssey
This is the cover of a pyxis (a box for makeup), red-figure (c420 BCE), showing Odysseus emerging under the direction of Athena (at center bottom) while the girls run in terror, except for Nausicaa (top left).
Book 10: Grieving for their lost companions, Odysseus and his 12 ships sail on to the island of Aeolus, and after the unfortunate opening of the bag of winds, they are blown back to it...and sent away as cursed.
This Attic red-figure stamnos (c460 BCE) shows the Sirens, who have bird-legs and wings, singing to Odysseus while his men, with wax in their ears, row manfully on.
www.uark.edu /campus-resources/achilles/odyssey/odyssey.html   (1534 words)

  
 5000 BCE Encyclopedia Article @ Civilised.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
4) What island, part of Australia until about 5000 BCE, is the largest in the southern hemisphere?
More 5000 BCE Page Titles on this Site
Civilised.org is designed and maintained by Kurt Karr and is hosted by pair Networks.
www.civilised.org /encyclopedia/5000_BCE   (503 words)

  
 This Week's Liturgy
Most scholars believe Zephaniah prophesied during the late 600s BCE, while King Josiah was trying to reform Judaism.
Unlike Zephaniah, Jeremiah was convinced that reform only works when it comes “bottom-up.” If ordinary people don’t want to return to the roots of their faith, no leader-instigated changes will last.
When Josiah died at the battle of Megiddo in 609 BCE, his reform died with him, and Jeremiah returned to preaching true reform.
www.bellevillemessenger.org /archive/031212/Karban.html   (537 words)

  
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classical Persian society took shape in 6th century BCE - conquered area from Indus River in east to S.E. Egypt and Asia Minor in west.
once solved, ruled for 1000 years, until conquered by the Muslim Arabs in the 600s CE.
Darius [521 - 486 BCE] - 2500th anniversary of 521 BCE = 1979 CE - year of the Iranian revolution vs. the Shah.
www.h-net.org /~fisher/hst205/ClassNotes/January28.html   (153 words)

  
 Chapter 7, 8
Joel lived through the period of the “dissolution” of the “tree” or “mountain” as his life also overlapped that of King Hezekiah, who ruled Israel in 704-675 BCE, during which time the final catastrophe of 687 BCE occurred, when Assyrian King Sennacherib’s army was destroyed by “cosmic forces” at Pelusium, Sinai.
The contemporary writers Damastes of Sigeum and Hellanicus of Lesbos agree in their statements in placing beyond the fabled tribes of the North the Rhipaean Mountains from which the north wind blows, and on the other side of these, on the seacoast, the Hyperboreans.
Then as the 600s BCE came and went, and those like Pythagoras and Alcman died, only distant legends would have remained about this magical, northernmost “Heaven Of The Gods”.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /hercolobus/planetX/planetX04.htm   (7339 words)

  
 The Co-Creators YH W H or YH & H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
YH are the first two letters of the Tetragrammaton YH W H, the letters the Co-Creators used to Identify themselves to Adam and Eve, pronounced Yod He' vav He'.
The Hebrew letter Y was translated as J. Adam, his Descendant King David, his Son King Solomon and their Descendant Jesus called The Creator by his chosen Name "Yod He' (YH)".
Historically it was in the 600s BCE when the Greek temple to Hera, the Queen of the Heavens, was built, that Matches the Same Time the Benjamites left Jerusalem for Greece where they could Worship the Heavenly Mother.
www.agedefyingwomen.com /page/page/2735098.htm   (4080 words)

  
 Bruce Feiler explores 'Where God Was Born,' interview with Bruce Feiler -- Beliefnet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But when the Israelites were kicked out of Jerusalem in 586 BCE and sent into exile, God became universal and portable.
They came to understand that God is everywhere, and you don't only have to go into the Temple to see God, you can find him everywhere.
So you can't understand religion today without understanding what happened in Babylon in the 600s BCE.
www.beliefnet.com /story/175/story_17518_1.html   (977 words)

  
 mental_floss Question of the Day
After all, capital punishment for driving through a red light just wouldn’t seem right.
In the late 600s BCE Draco was an official who drew up a new set of laws in the Greek city-state Athens.
These weren’t the first Athenian laws, or even the first to be written down, but they were systematic and codified as never before.
www.mentalfloss.com /trivia/questions/?p=55   (349 words)

  
 Basic Bible details
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers cannot be dated accurately There are three elements blended by a post Babylon exile editor Earliest is 800 BCE, next up to 700 BCE and third at and beyond the exile All could have been later
Book of Daniel at face value suggests it is written at end of Babylonian Empire (538 BCE) and the beginning of the Persian Empire and predicts Greek rule (333 BCE to 165 BCE), thus Daniel knew about Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties before they started!
The legend is that in the 200s BCE a late Egyptian Pharoah wanted a copy of the Hebrew Bible for the archives in Greek
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/relthink/bible.html   (6616 words)

  
 Definitions and Descriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In other words, this is evil created by a normal person, a mediocrity who is conforming to the corruptions of more clever people.
Diaspora: Jews dispersed to lands outside of Israel, beginning in the 600s BCE, and continuing during Roman times.
Duchy: Territory, fief or domain ruled by a duke or duchess.
www.fsmitha.com /defini.html   (2550 words)

  
 LostPirateTX's Xanga Site
La Belle, as the paper itself examines only a partial sample, but rather to provide a basis and a framework for further research and an eventual complete and thorough analytical study of the entire ammunition assemblage.
Archaeological evidence of extraction of lead from ore through smelting dates back as far as the sixty-sixth century BCE in the form of a piece of lead found in close association with a piece of slag, probably predating the known development of copper smelting by at least three thousand years (Nriagu 1983: 67).
Lead saw common use on ancient battlefields as early as the 600s BCE, as the physical properties which facilitated early development of lead metallurgy and gave the metal such long-standing, widespread economic and industrial appeal rendered it equally appealing for military applications.
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 QuesPhoenicians
Three North African (Carthage, Numidia) coins found in West Cornwall dating from 300 BCE to 100 BCE.
Bones of a Barbary ape dated to 200 BCE near Dublin, Ireland, and also "the Lough Lene [in West Meath, besides a lake in Central Ireland] boat, which was of Mediterranean construction."
700s and 600s BCE], the Phoenicians radically transformed the economy of Southern Spain through Gadir (Cadiz) and an extensive series of other colonies, extracting enough silver to leave 20 million tons of silver slag on the countryside (Frankenstein 1979).
www.britam.org /Questions/QuesPhoenicians.html   (690 words)

  
 ArtLex's Al-Am page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
form in the 600s BCE, but made the vessel in a variety of materials.
By contrast, a talisman is a piece of jewelry (often a pendant) promoting or attracting good.
770-657 BCE, Dynasty 25, late Dynastic period, gold, 1 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (4.2 x 3.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/Al.html   (4028 words)

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