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	720s BC
		728 BC - Death of Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria (or 727 BC)
		724 BC - Ahaz, king of Judah dies (740 BC-726 BC)
		720 BC - Death of Zhou ping wang[?], King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/72/727_BC.html (196 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for thurii
		BC founded a number of towns that became the centers of a new, thriving Greek territory.
		It was founded in 720 BC by Achaeans and people from Argolis, the Troezenians.
		He was also the architect of the Athenian colony of Thurii (near Sybaris) in 443 BC and, according to one tradition, of the city of Rhodes, founded in 408 BC.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=thurii (1110 words)

	History of Ancient Sparta
		Around 1200 BC, by the marriage of the daughter of Menelaos Ermione with the son of Agamemnon Orestes, the kingdoms of Argos and Sparta were united.
		At the third year of the war (429 BC) Archidamos marched towards the city of Plataea and demanded to hand him over the city and their land properties, promising that after the war everything would be restored to them.
		In the end of the 4th century BC, Sparta build a wall for the first time in her history, which was enclosing its four central villages and Acropolis.
	www.sikyon.com /Sparta/history_eg.html (10532 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 720
		British explorers arrived in the early 1800s, and it was colonized as a British province in 1836.
		It was powerful until its defeat and destruction (386 BC) by Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse.
		He spent his life defeating Arab and Bulgar threats to the empire and was unable to prevent the Lombards from taking Ravenna (751), thus ending Byzantine...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=720&StartAt=31 (1230 words)

	723 bc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		729 BC - Hezekiah succeeds Ahaz as king of Judah (or 726 BC)
		724 BC - Ahaz, king of Judah dies (740 BC-726 BC)
		720 BC - Death of Zhou ping wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /723_BC.html (246 words)

	720s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		728 BC - Piye invades Egypt, conquering Memphis, and receives the submission of the rulers of the Nile Delta.
		723 BC - Spring and Autumn Period of China's history begins as King Zhou ping wang of the Zhou Dynasty reigns in name only.
		720 BC - Bakenranef (also known as Bocchoris) succeeds his father Tefnakhte as king of the Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/720s_BC (282 words)

	China - Astronomy
		A solar eclipse of 16 June 763 BC mentioned in an Assyrian text is important for the Chronology of the Ancient Orient.
		By about 20 BC, surviving documents show that Chinese astrologers understood what caused eclipses, and by 8 BC some predictions of total solar eclipse were made using the 135-month recurrence period.
		Records of solar eclipses from the Han dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) are found primarily in two official histories: the Han-shu and the Hou-han-shu.
	www.crystalinks.com /china_astronomy.html (673 words)

	the Olympics in the antiquity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Later, about 800 BC, came King Iphitus into lead, and introduced that during the Olympics an armistice was between the always warring factions.
		A running-match of circa 192 meter (1 stadie) and the earliest known winner was Coroibos of Elis.
		In 724 BC was there a second sport added, a race of 2 stadies.
	library.thinkquest.org /25114/eng/spelen/speloud.html (409 words)

	Jews - MSN Encarta
		Saul’s successor, David, was a fantastically successful monarch, according to the biblical account, achieving military goals and expanding the territory of the kingdom.
		From the 8th century bc onward the kingdom cultivated the worship of a single God, at a time when polytheism was the common practice.
		Judah’s prophets insisted that the kingdom’s destiny depended not on military might but on the state of the kingdom’s relationship with God, especially the extent to which the community avoided polytheistic worship and properly looked after its poor and powerless.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567959_3/Jews.html (1232 words)

	Sparta (Greek History) Online Encyclopedia Article About Sparta (Greek History)
		Initially, Sparta's political and cultural development was entirely normal, but this situation changed with the revolt (c.650 BC) of Messenia, a territory crucial to her viability as a state.
		The need to suppress the revolt and prevent a similar recurrence led to a series of military and social reforms, traditionally associated with Lycurgus, which effectively arrested her development.
		Her defeat of Athens in 404 BC put her centre stage, but she played her role so badly that the other city-states combined against her.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/057/Sparta-Greek-history.html (212 words)

	Hoshea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may be that both Tiglath-Pileser and Shalmaneser invaded Israel and both extracted tribute; Assyrian records show that Shalmaneser campaigned in Phoenicia in the years 727 BC and 725 BC.
		Sargon returned with the Assyrian army in 720 BC, and pacified the province, deporting the citizens of Israel beyond the Euphrates (some 27,290 according to the inscription of Sargon II), and settling people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim in their place (2 Kings 17:6, 24).
		The author of the Books of Kings states this destruction occurred "because the children of Israel sinned against the Lord" (2 Kings 17:7-24), not because of a political miscalculation on Hoshea's part.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoshea (387 words)

	WELCOME TO ATHENS - History of the Olympic Games
		According to Pausanias, the thirteen Olympiads held between 776-728 BC had but one sport, named the stadion, which was a foot race on the Olympic stadium, 178 - 179 meters long.
		At the 14th Olympiad, in 724 BC, the diaulos, a race of two stadia was added, while at 15th Olympiad, in 720 BC, the innovation was the dolichos, a long distance race.
		In the 23rd Olympiad, in 688 BC, boxing appeared, and in 680 BC, in the 25th Olympiad, the chariot race was added as an event.
	www.akropol.net /olympic_games_history/history_olympic_games_page.htm (1102 words)

	How crucial is the Exodus date as 1446 BC?
		But I hasten to add that for some of the patterns (using the numbers in the bible) this question is irrelevant because many of the patterns exist irregardless of their exact date in history.
		It is reasonable to inquire as to whether or not the popular date of 1446 BC for the Exodus was simply a concoction by scholars to fit the bible numbers.
		However, the 1446 BC date was not chosen arbitrarily but was the consequence of first establishing the date for Solomon's temple as c.
	www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org /1446BC-exodus-importance.htm (1159 words)

	A timeline of the ancient Egyptians
		2900 BC : king Djer is buried at Abydos, the seat of the cult of Osiris, lord of the Underworld and husband of Isis, and his "mastaba" becomes considered the grave of Osiris
		1323 BC : Tutankhamon is killed at 19 and is buried in the "Valley of the Kings" at Thebes
		1069 BC : the high priests of Amon usurp the title of king and split Egypt in two, the north with capital in Tanis (on the Mediterranean Sea) ruled by the 21st dynasty and the south with capital in Thebes ruled by the priests of Amon
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/egyptian.html (1717 words)

	Sargon of Akkad - Sargon I - Sargon II
		1850 BC, given an independent existence by some scholar based on only ONE tablet found in Cappadocia and allegedly dated to this era, although there are NO records in Assyrian literature anywhere about a Sargon of this period.
		720 BC, who is regarded to be one of Assyria's great kings, based on records HE wrote.
		Indeed, it is well known that Ashurbanipal [to his credit, but in the opinion of LexiLine also clearly the imposter Sargon II] in the 7th century BC ordered the scribes to collect and copy ancient tablets, today known as the "K"-collection of more than 20,000 tablets.
	www.lexiline.com /lexiline/lexi57.htm (968 words)

	A Distant Mirror - The Philistines and the Phoenicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As early as 2700 BC an Egyptian wrote that a huge consignment of Lebanese Cedar, 40 shiploads worth, had provided enough wood to make three large vessels, and the doors of the Pharaoh’s palace.
		By 700 BC Carthage was more prosperous and powerful than any of the original cities, and it gradually took over leadership of all the western colonies and outposts.
		The northern kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians under Tiglath-Pileser III in 732 BC (2 Ki 15:29), and again under Shalmaneser in 722 BC (2 Ki 18:9-10).
	www.standard.net.au /~covenant/studies/peoples/peoples.html (11459 words)

	Judgment Against Tyre
		Assyria devastated Tyre between 705-701 BC (EBC, p.
		When Alexander the Great took the city, he slaughtered 6,000 fighting men and 2,000 Tyrians were crucified on the beach in 332 BC (livius1).
		All that remains of it is a series of fl reefs offshore from Tyre, which surely could not have been there in the first and second millennia B.C., since they pose such a threat to navigation.
	www.geocities.com /k9ocu/TYRE-SIP.htm (1260 words)

	Sons of Noah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern scholarship, apart from that undertaken by devout believers, rejects the traditional view of historicity, and holds instead that the genealogy reflects an etiological myth explaining the relations between the ethnic groups of the ancient Near East, perhaps re-edited at the time of the text's final composition in the 7th century BC.
		This name is said to be connected with that of the Aegean state of Ionia, first appearing in records ca.
		Irish folklore is rich in traditions and legends it has preserved regarding the three sons and their wives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sons_of_Noah (1934 words)

	A short history of Greece
		The first (primitive) state structures in Greece are established from 1400 BC on.
		The first city states are formed in ca 900 BC and around 754 BC Sparta becomes the leading Greek state, followed in 720 BC by Athens as second leading Greek state.
		In 197 BC Greece liberates itself from Macedon, but in 146 BC Greece becomes the Egian province of the Roman Empire.
	www.electionworld.org /history/greece.htm (1095 words)

	Geochronology
		730 BC Cymmerians invade Europe and Asia and reach Pannonia and Lydia
		9 BC Illyria and Pannonia conquered by Rome
		1700 BC Aryans as one of the nations of Mitanni Empire
	indoeuro.bizland.com /project/chron/chronn.html (372 words)

	720 BC Articles /a>h2>[edit] Significant people 72
		729 BC — Hezekiah succeeds Ahaz as king of Judah (or 726 BC).
		728 BC — Death of Tiglath-Pileser III, king of Assyria (or 727 BC).
		720 BC — Death of Zhou ping wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
	www.amazines.com /720_BC_related.html (473 words)

	Ancient Greek Literature, Authors, Timeline 1/2
		Aesop (Αίσωπος) (620-560 BC), Herodotus writes that he was a slave in Samos in the 6th cent.
		The art of the poet was considered criminal in thus forcibly reminding the Athenians of a calamity which was deemed their own: he was fined a thousand drachmae, and the repetition of the piece forbidden--a punishment that was but a glorious homage to the genius of the poet and the sensibility of the people.
		Philoxenus (or Philoxenos) of Cythera (Φιλόξενος ο Κυθήριος) (435-380 BC), dithyrambic poet (24 dithyrambs).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/TLLiterature.htm (3644 words)

	Brief Overview of the Bible's Storyline
		For example, Kings is a recounting of Israel's entire history in the land from the perspective of exile after the nation had been destroyed (after 586 BC).
		Chronicles is an exilic rewriting of the Samuel/Kings traditions from the perspective of anticipated restoration and the hopes of a new Davidic kingdom (c.
		This simply reflects the fact that most biblical material is a reflection on the significance of history for the ongoing community from a much later time rather than being a purely contemporary record of events.
	www.cresourcei.org /storyline.html (388 words)

	PASSIA: Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs - Jerusalem
		720 BC: Kings of Judah between rivals Assyria (later Babylonia) and Egypt; Assyrians capture Jerusalem.
		701-627 BC: Assyrians beleaguer Jerusalem; Judah is a tributary state of the Assyrian Empire.
		Persian Rule 538-333 BC: Persians overthrow Babylonian empire; Jerusalem is capital of Persian province.
	www.passia.org /jerusalem/chronology/chron1.htm (663 words)

	History of the land
		17th century BC Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob settle in the land of Israel, but famine forces the Hebrews to migrate to Egypt and eventually the Hebrew people became slaves as Egyptians gained control of the larger region.
		13th century BC Moses leads the Israelites from Egypt, where they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years until taking possession of the land of Canaan in the 13th and 12th centuries.
		720 BC Israel, the northern kingdom, defeated by the Assyrians; 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel are dispersed and lost.
	www.baptiststandard.com /2002/4_15/pages/mideast_timeline.html (729 words)

	Key Verse
		After David’s son, Solomon died (930 BC), the Israelites divided into two nations, the northern kingdom (ten tribes), called Israel, with its capital in Samaria, and the southern kingdom (the tribes of Benjamin and Judah), called Judah, with its capital in Jerusalem.
		Israel was crushed by King Sennacherib of Assyria in 722-720 BC.
		In 586 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Judah, destroyed the Temple, and exiled most of the people to Babylon.
	www.skylinechurch.net /studies/05-06/03Heart-Advent/Joy.htm (821 words)

	Isaiah 23
		This was contemporary with the fulfillment of Isaiah's predictions of the Assyrian punishment of Israel and Judah in the early eighth century BC.
		The coast of Spain beyond the straits of Gibraltar was colonized 700 to 800 BC and settled long before the events were recorded historically.
		After the fall of Assyrian power (the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC) Nebuchadnezzar led the Chaldeans to the status of world empire and Tyre was reduced to rubble (a place to spread nets Ezek 26:5) after which it was rebuilt with the help of her colonials and was again a mercantile center.
	www.ao.net /~fmoeller/isa23.htm (2700 words)

	Mycenaean Triad \| Musée du Louvre
		Such offerings were deposited in graves to accompany the child on its journey to the world of the dead, protected by these kourotrophoi.
		The complexity of the composition suggests that this work was produced in the period of maturity of the phi figurine, between 1300 and 1200 BC.
		Of all the works in the Louvre, the Winged Victory of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo are among the most admired: in their striking depiction of the human form they encapsulate the "Greek spirit." This circuit traces this artistic quest of sculptors who had an indelible influence on Western art.
	www.louvre.fr /llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=10134198673225963&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE<>cnt_id=10134198673225963&CURRENT_LLV_DEP<>folder_id=1408474395181112&CURRENT_LLV_DIV<>folder_id=2534374302024490&FOLDER<>folder_id=9852723696500777&fromDept=false&baseIndex=4&bmUID=1124511798552&bmLocale=en (629 words)

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