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Mediterranean Civilization Timeline > Part One > Flashcards

Part One Flashcards

1
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Great Pyramid is built in Egypt.

A

circā 2550 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The first games are held at Olympia.

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776 BCE

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3
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Temple of Artemis is constructed at Ephesus;

it will subsequently be destroyed more than once (by flood and by fire) and rebuilt.

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circā 750 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Walls and Hanging Gardens are built at Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.

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circā 600 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Xerxes demolishes the Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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482 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Temple of Zeus is open for the 90th Olympiad.

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456 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Phidias installs the Statue of Zeus in the temple at Olympia.

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circā 432 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The historian Herodotus dies.

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circā 425 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Herostratus burns down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Alexander the Great is born the same night.

The temple is subsequently rebuilt.

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13–14 October, 356 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Mausoleum is built at Halicarnassus.

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circā 350 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The city of Alexandria is founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great.

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331 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Alexander the Great dies at Babylon.

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323 BCE

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The Celtic warlord Cimbaules makes incursions against the Macedonians and is repelled.

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298 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Colossus is completed at Rhodes.

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circā 290 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Pharos Lighthouse is built at Alexandria.

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circā 280 BCE

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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Celts make a second incursion against Macedonia; Brennus attacks Delphi.

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281–279 BCE

17
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Colossus falls.

18
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Antipater of Sidon is born.

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circā 170 BCE

19
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Roman general Mummius sacks Corinth, but spares Olympia; Carthage is destroyed by Rome.

20
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Posidonius is born in Syria.

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circā 135 BCE

21
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Attalus III of Pergamon bequeaths his kingdom to Rome,

which establishes the province of Asia.

22
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Posidonius studies under Panaetius the Stoic in Athens.

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circā 115 BCE

23
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After travels in Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, North Africa, and Greece, Posidonius settles in Rhodes.

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circā 90 BCE

24
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Rome sides with Nicomedes of Bithynia in his war against Mithridates of Pontus.

25
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Rome aids Nicomedes of Bithynia against Mithridates for the second time.

26
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Mithridates invades Bithynia, expels Nicomedes, and sets up Nicomedes’ brother Socrates as king; Ariobarzanes, the king of Cappadocia confirmed by the Romans, is usurped and replaced by the son of Mithridates, Ariaranthes Eusebes.

27
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Outbreak of the Social War, as the Italians revolt against Rome.

28
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

War begins between Rome and Mithridates.

29
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Conclusion of the Social War;

Rome is triumphant over the rebellious Italians.

30
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The dictator Sulla moves the 175th Olympiad to Rome.

(The Games are afterward returned to Olympia.)

Mediterranean Civilization Timeline (3 decks)

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