ENG 211 Midterm Flashcards
Gilgamesh
published - c. 1500 BC
author - unknown
Genesis
published - c. 500 BC
author - JEP
Hymn to the Sun
published - c. 1350 BC
author - Akhenaten
The Leiden Hymns
published - c. 1250 BC
author - unknown
The Koran
published - c. 600 AD
author - Mohammad
Oedipus the King
published - c. 450 BC
author - Sophocles
Antigone
published - c. 450 BC
author - Sophocles
Caedmon’s Hymn
published - c. 660 AD
author - Caedmon
The Dream of the Rood
published - c. 744 AD
author - anonymous
c. 10,000 BC
agriculture in the fertile crescent (Mesopotamia)
c. 3,000s BC
Sumerians conquered Mesopotamia
c. 3,500 BC
invention of writing (cuneiform)
c. 3,000 BC
massive flood (“world ending”)
c. 3,000 - 2,800 BC
revolution of writing (phonological)
c. 2,700 BC
Gilgamesh ruled Uruk
c. 2,000 BC
stories about Gilgamesh appear (all orally)
c. 1,300 BC
Sin-lequi-unninni made one big Gilgamesh story
c. 600 BC
Nineveh; Ashurbanipal loses the palace (they have a really big library)
c. 1840 AD
someone dug up Ashurbanipal and found the one big Gilgamesh story in the library
1857 AD
cuneiform is translated
1872 AD
“Noah’s flood happened” Gilgamesh proved this because it talked about the flood also
c. 5,000s BC
Africans move to Egypt for the Nile River
c. 3,100 BC
Egypt becomes a nation-state
c. 2,800 BC
the date of the Great Pyramids being built
525 BC
the Persians invaded Egypt
332 BC
Alexander the Great invaded Egypt
332 BC - 400 AD
Pharaoh’s were Greek instead of Egyptian
1799 AD
the French dug up the Rosetta Stone
c. 1820 AD
interpret the Rosetta Stone (Champollion)
c. 570 AD
Mohammad is born in Mecca
c. 595 AD
he marries Khadija (he was 25 and she was 40)
c. 610 AD
Gabriel recites the Koran to Mohammad orally
July 16th, 622 AD
Mohammad and his followers fled to Mecca to Medina
624 AD
Battle of Badr - he takes Mecca back
632 AD
Mohammad dies
c. 650 AD
the Koran is written down
c. 700 AD
the Koran is spread around the world
c. 600 - 1066 AD
Old English Period
c. 1066 AD - 1450 AD
Middle English Period
1450 AD - current day
Modern English
c. 1,000 BC
beginning of German culture
43 AD
the Romans invade Britain
98 AD
Tacitus “published” Germania
c. 400 AD
the Romans withdrew from Britain
c. 450 AD
Britain asked the Angles and Saxons for “protection”
597 AD
England is evangelized
871-899 AD
King Alfred ruled - fought off the vikings
October 14th, 1066
Battle of Hastings (the French won)
1450 AD
the printing press is invented