Part One Flashcards
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The Great Pyramid is built in Egypt.
circā 2550 BCE
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The first games are held at Olympia.
776 BCE
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The Temple of Artemis is constructed at Ephesus;
it will subsequently be destroyed more than once (by flood and by fire) and rebuilt.
circā 750 BCE
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The Walls and Hanging Gardens are built at Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.
circā 600 BCE
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Xerxes demolishes the Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
482 BCE
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The Temple of Zeus is open for the 90th Olympiad.
456 BCE
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Phidias installs the Statue of Zeus in the temple at Olympia.
circā 432 BCE
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The historian Herodotus dies.
circā 425 BCE
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Herostratus burns down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Alexander the Great is born the same night.
The temple is subsequently rebuilt.
13–14 October, 356 BCE
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The Mausoleum is built at Halicarnassus.
circā 350 BCE
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The city of Alexandria is founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great.
331 BCE
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Alexander the Great dies at Babylon.
323 BCE
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The Celtic warlord Cimbaules makes incursions against the Macedonians and is repelled.
298 BCE
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The Colossus is completed at Rhodes.
circā 290 BCE
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The Pharos Lighthouse is built at Alexandria.
circā 280 BCE