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  CalendarHome.com - 640s BC - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
April 6, 648 BC - Earliest Greek-chronicled solar eclipse.
647 BC - Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, from the palaca at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) was made.
643 BC - Death of Manasseh of Judah.
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 Zephaniah
If 626 BC is accepted, then the ministries of Jeremiah and Zephaniah began in the same year" (Homer Hailey).
During the reigns of Manasseh (695 - 642 BC) and Amon (642 - 640 BC) the southern kingdom of Judah sank to astounding moral and spiritual depths.
However, in the year 640 BC --- at the age of only 24 --- King Amon was assassinated by his servants (II Kings 21:23; II Chron.
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 KryssTal : Inventions: 1000 BC to 1 BC
Carthage was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC.
The Chinese Emperor, Shi Huangdi died in 210 BC and was buried in a large mound outside of modern
Plato (the philosopher from whom the adjective "platonic" is derived) was born in 427 BC; the school he founded was the original Acadamy.
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 templemount
This destruction and the deportations of Jews to Babylonia in 586 and 582 were seen as fulfillments of prophecy and, therefore, strengthened Judaic religious beliefs and awakened the hope for the reestablishment of the independent Jewish state.
During the Persian and Hellenistic (4th-3rd century BC) periods, the Temple generally was respected, and in part subsidized, by Judaea's foreign rulers.
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, however, plundered it in 169 BC and desecrated it in 167 BC by commanding that sacrifices be made to Zeus on an altar built for him.
www.bu.edu /mzank/Michael_Zank/Jerusalem/templemount.html   (985 words)

  
 The History Of The Holy Jerusalem
In the period of "Yab'am the second" from 785 BC till 745 BC, the third of in the line of "Yaho" ancestry, his kingdom expanded towards the north on the account of the Aramaians.
As to the king Hazqiya (715 BC-687 BC), he was forced to declare his full surrender to the king of the Assyrians, Sarjon the Second, after he seized the Kingdom of Israel.
When Yahoyaqim ruled from 598 BC-597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar, or Buchadnezzar, besieged Jerusalem and captured the king and his family, the chief of the Jews and about 10,000 of its population, which is known as the first capture, and robbed some of the temple treasures and sent them to Babylon.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 640 BC
Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
Decades: 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC 660s BC 650s BC - 640s BC - 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC 600s BC 590s BC
643 BC - Death of Manasseh, king of Judah
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 Impact Components > Pricing and Availability BBY57-02V-E6327 - BC1406
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 Argives (Early Hoplite Greek) (DBA I/52a)
In 494 BC, Cleomenes I of Sparta heavily defeated the Argives at Sepeia (near Tiryns) in the Argolid.
In 272 BC, the Pyrrhus of Epirus was killed by a roof slate thrown while he road through the streets in an effort to restore an Argive king who had been deposed by a democratic mob.
In 146 BC Argos became part of the Roman province of Achaea and flourished as a center of arts and trade during the Roman period.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 640
According to Chronicles, he was inattentive to the worship of God, and the accounts accordingly denounce him strongly.
Foundry and National Capital Institute of Telecommunications Announce Successful Multi-Vendor Testing in Live Network With NetIron IMR 640 Router; Suite of Multi-Vendor Tests Performed by Leading North American Research Laboratory Verifies NetIron IMR 640 Interoperability and Performance in Heterogeneous MPLS and DWDM Network.
640 Memorial Drive: former Ford Motor Co. assembly plant on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass., regains stature as a home for high-tech tenants.
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 Greek Poets 5 - Crystalinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stesichorus was a Greek lyric poet from Sicily who flourished from 640 BC to 555 BC.
The record of these recensions is preserved by two epigrams, one of which proceeds from Artemidorus, a grammarian, who lived in the time of Sulla and is said to have been the first editor of these poems.
This marriage is held to have taken place in 277 BC, and a recently discovered inscription shows that Arsinoë died in 270, in the fifteenth year of her brother's reign.
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 Untitled Document
The Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) describes in his dialogs Critias and Timaeus the disappearance of Atlantis, a circular island populated by talented people of high culture and wealth.
The widepsread character of Santorini eruption is demonstrated by the broad distribution of Late Bronze Age tephra, found in both deep-sea sediments of the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Seas, and in archeological sites throughout the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Although the ~1630 BC eruption of Santorini is recognized as one of the most explosive volcanic eruptions in historic times, the event is only a single eruption in a continuum of eruptive activity associated with subduction.
www.geology.sdsu.edu /how_volcanoes_work/santorini.html   (954 words)

  
 640s BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Obviously the blow was directed not only against these frontier fortresses.
In the 640s B.C., Urartu ceased to exist as an independent state.
640s BC Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
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 BibleGen3 - pafg02 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Jehoiakim (Eliakim), King Of Judah [Parents] was born in (Became King 609 Bc), Judah.
Amon, King Of Judah [Parents] was born in (Became King 642 Bc), Judah.
Manasseh, King Of Judah [Parents] was born in (Became King 697 Bc), Judah.
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 Connecting the 19th with the 26th Dynasty
He was installed king by Assurbanipal in 665 BC but the designation `I (one)' actually belongs more properly to the previous Ramses Siptah, one of the three brothers, who reigned briefly a few decades earlier.
Here sealed destruction layers attributable to the Babylonian conquests of the late seventh century BC contain sherds some of which can be directly paralleled at the nearby coastal site of Mesad Hashavyahu, a site that is generally interpreted as a garrison of Greek mercenaries.
His contemporaries during his lengthy reign (665-609 BC) in revised view were Assurbanipal (668-627 BC), Assuruballit II (627 to the destruction of Niniveh) in Assyria.
www.specialtyinterests.net /seti1.html   (8440 words)

  
 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)

  
 The Rise of Babylon and Exile (640 BC-538 BC):  OT History
The date of 640 used to begin this period relates more to the reign of Israelite kings, which provides the framework for this historical survey, than it does to the shift of power from Assyria to Babylon.
Asshurbanapal (669-627 BC) took over the empire of Assyria after the death of his father Esarhaddon (680-669 BC).
By 622, having gradually expanded his influence, Josiah was ready to launch sweeping reforms of the nation itself.
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 Eclipse Quotations - Part I
Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.
Extract from a speech made in 597 BC, in support of a general who had recently suffered defeat, and was in danger of execution.
Refers to the solar eclipse of 28 May 585 BC, when the Lydians and the Medes were fighting a war.
www.mreclipse.com /Special/quotes1.html   (5730 words)

  
 Theological Seminary - Master's Level
BC 518 (3 cr) An Examination of Integrationism in Christian Counseling
BC 640 (3 cr) Master's Biblical Counseling Practicum*
BC 506 (3 cr) The Local Church as a Counseling Center
www.trinitysem.edu /DegreePrograms/Masters.html   (2021 words)

  
 Jeremiah -- the Weeping Prophet
Chapters 7—10 are often called “The Message in the Temple Gate” which describe the reasons for the coming judgment, and focus primarily on the people’s false standards of life.
By this time in history, about 599 BC, the siege of the city has begun and many of the people of Jerusalem have already been carried away to Babylon.
While in prison, and during the reign of Jehoiakim (607 B.C.), God tells Jeremiah to record the words in a scroll.
home.att.net /~leon_v.smith/lessons/jeremiah.htm   (4418 words)

  
 SOLON OF ATHENS
His reputation is based on his contribution to Athenian law and through political and economic reforms that paved the way for increased participatory democracy in the “great period” of classical Athens.
Solon, born to a well-off family in approximately 640 BC, grew up in a period when expanding Greek maritime trade had led to a growing middle class of merchants in Athenian society who were beginning to agitate against their exclusion from political power.
Solon’s legal reforms mitigated the harsh penalties of Draco’s laws of roughly 621 BC, which are thought to have prescribed death as the penalty for even trivial offences (hence the phrase a “Draconian law.”) Solon reserved the death penalty only for murder or manslaughter.
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 THE BOOK OF DANIEL
In fact, it appears to have set the tone for a rash of uninspired apocalypses in troublesome times from the second century B.C. through the second century A.D. Only a chapter-by-chapter summary or overview will now be given, except as explanatory notes may seem necessary for clarity, or proper understanding, or special emphasis.
640 B.C. 	 Josiah ; 2 Ki.22:1-23:34 onwards 2 Ch..34:1-36:4
424-404 BC would be Ahasuerus of Dan.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Solon
He was considered by later Greeks to be an important moral authority, the source of maxims such as “know thyself” and “nothing to excess”, and one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece.
In an atmosphere of conflict, particularly between creditors and debtors, he was appointed to alleviate the problems that were threatening Athens with civil war.
440 BC) is especially problematic, given that the ideas Herodotus associates with Solon are not found in the poet's verses.
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 Dr. Hal Brown - Naturopath Vancouver BC - Interesting Articles
The history of the manipulation of human articulations, including the spine and extremities, goes back to the time of Hippocrates (640 BC) in the western world.
It is evident throughout Asia in Japan and India; and in China a distinct branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine called Tui Na is devoted to manipulative techniques.
The study of spinal manipulation is still a requirement for graduation from all naturopathic colleges and for provincial licensure.
www.drhalbrown.com /interesting_articles.php   (687 words)

  
 Greece, Corinth, 7th Century BC / Protocorinthian Aryballos (Oil Flask) / c. 650-640 BC
Greece, Corinth, 7th Century BC / Protocorinthian Aryballos (Oil Flask) / c.
This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
Context: Corinthian pottery during the 8th and 7th centuries BC was as popular an export commodity as Mycenean ware was several centuries earlier.
www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico12213458-32911.html   (319 words)

  
 Oxford Advanced Studies Program
Issues such as democracy, justice, the development of modern drama, philosophy, religion, historiography and the role of women will be raised, and where relevant and possible, supplementary materials and visits will be incorporated into the syllabus.
The period under study will cover the rise and fall of Athens from the Seventh to the Fourth centuries BC.
If specifically requested a course based on the Fall of the Roman Republic can be followed with specific focus on the years from 133 BC - 14 AD.
www.oasp.ac.uk /pgya/subjects/2004/greeks.htm   (699 words)

  
 CMA Exhibition Feature : Kore Buckle (about 650-640 BC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Metallic residue on the back of this carved bone plaque indicates that it once adorned a clasp or buckle.
The frontally posed, clothed figure of a young woman (kore) displays features common to Greek sculpture of the 7th century BC.
Named after the legendary early Greek artist Daedalus, Daedalic sculpture includes such traits as the wig-like hairstyle, triangular-shaped head, and prominent eyes beneath arched brows.
www.clevelandart.org /exhibcef/mgtampa/khtml/8699551.html   (128 words)

  
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 Poet: Stesichorus - All poems of Stesichorus
Stesichorus was a lyric poet from Himera, who lived during the first half of the 6th century BC.
The name Stesichorus actually means "Chorus Master", so it might have been a title and not a name.
640-555 B.C.), Greek lyric poet, a native of Himera in Sicily,...
www.poemhunter.com /stesichorus   (275 words)

  
 EARLY CITY STATES
Sargon of Akkad and the Akkadian Empire (~2,340-2,100 BC)
Chronic Rebellions and Fall of Akkadians (~2,100 BC)
Amon-Re Akhenaten and the Cult of Aten (1,353-1,335 BC)
www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~jgetman/early_city_states.htm   (89 words)

  
 Chronology of the End of the Monarchy, Exilic, Post-Exilic, and Intertestamental Periods
Josiah (640-609 BC), "the boy king," a good king, brought many religious reforms, finally killed by Pharoah Neco II Nabopolassar (626-605 BC), first great king of Babylonia
605 BC Nebuchadrezzar II (605-562 BC, referred to in the Bible as Nebuchadnezzar), king of Babylonia
Nabonidus (556-539 BC), as the last of the Neo-Babylonian kings
www.jesuswalk.com /greatprayers/chronology.htm   (384 words)

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