Human History Dates Only - 1000 BCE - 500 BCE Flashcards
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MIDDLE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
End
934 BCE
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NEO-ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
911 BCE ( conquests of Babylonia, Persia, Lydia, Phrygians, Israel, Judah, Phoenicia, and Egypt.)
609 BCE: (Defeated at the Fall of Harran by the Babylonians and Medes)
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ANCIENT CARTHAGE
start and end only
814 BCE: Phoenician started a colony.
146 BC: completely destroyed by the Rome in the Third Punic War.
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ROME (ANCIENT CITY OF ROME)
Founded
753 BCE: Romulus and Remus
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THE MAYANS
Date began
Location
c.750 BCE: Began in Guatemala and Belize
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HOMER
~700 BCE
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CONSTANTINOPLE
began as Byzantium
657 BCE (Colony of the Greeks As Byzantium)
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR
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620 BCE: his father rebelled from Assyria and founded the Neo-Babylon Empire
539 BCE: conquered by Cyrus the Great
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NEO-BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
620 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar’s father rebelled from Assyria
539 BCE: conquered by Cyrus the Great
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INVENTION OF COINS
610 BCE
(Lydian Empire)
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR
Dates of his reign
605 – 562 BCE, the longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian Empire
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GREEK PUNIC WARS
600–265 BCE
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THE BABYLONIAN EXILE OF THE JUDEANS
597 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem
539 BCE: Cyrus the Great in captures Babylon, permits exiled Judeans to return to Judah.
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Croesus
How long his reign?
Croesus ‘Creesus’ reigned in Lydia for the last 14 years before it was conquered in 546 BCE by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
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TORAH - WHEN COMPLETED
597 BCE to 539 BCE
(during the Babylonian Exile) ?
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CROESUS
When was his city conquered?
546 BCE
Croesus ‘Creesus’ reigned in Lydia for the last 14 years before it was conquered in 546 BCE by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
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TOWER OF BABEL (Etemenanki)
590-560 BCE
Etemenanki (Sumerian: “temple of the foundation of heaven and earth”) was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon, famously rebuilt by rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II
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CYRUS THE GREAT
Persian uprising vs Media
550 BCE
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ACHAEMENID EMPIRE
550 BCE: Cyrus the Great
330 BCE: Fall to Macedonia
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IRON AGE ENDS HISTORIOGRAPHY STARTS
Achaemenid Empire (record by Herodotus)
Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BCE (record by Herodotus)