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Mediterranean Civilization Timeline > Part Three > Flashcards

Part Three 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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5
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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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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

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

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

The Colossus falls.

A

227 BCE

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

Antipater of Sidon is born.

A

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.

A

146 BCE

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

Ptolemy IX (Soter) is born.

A

143 or 142 BCE

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

Ptolemy X (King Ptolemy) is born.

A

circā 140 or 139 BCE

22
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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

23
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Mithridates is born.

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circā 134 BCE

24
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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.

A

133 BCE

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

Posidonius studies under Panaetius the Stoic in Athens.

A

circā 115 BCE

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

Consulship of Publius Rutilius Rufus.

A

105 BCE

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

After the banishment of his brother, Soter, King Ptolemy X orders the murder of his mother, Cleopatra III, and makes himself sole ruler of Egypt.

A

101 BCE

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

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

A

circā 90 BCE

29
Q

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

Ptolemy Apion dies and bequeaths Cyrenacia to Rome.

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96 BCE

30
Q

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

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

A

95 BCE

31
Q

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

Publius Rutilius Rufus, tried for extortion in Asia and found guilty, leaves Rome and goes into voluntary exile on the island of Lesbos.

A

92 BCE

32
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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.

A

92 BCE

33
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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.

A

91 BCE

34
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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.

A

91 BCE

35
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Much of Upper Egypt, including Thebes, revolts against King Ptolemy.

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91 BCE

36
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

War begins between Rome and Mithridates.

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89 BCE

First Mithridatic War, 89–85 BCE

37
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Mithridates has massive successes all over Asia Minor and in the Aegean.

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89 and 88 BCE

38
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Mithridates takes the island of Cos, seizing the Egyptian treasury there and taking the son of King Ptolemy hostage.

A

88 BCE

39
Q

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

Civil War breaks out in Egypt; King Ptolemy X flees Alexandria and his brother seizes the throne.

A

88 BCE

40
Q

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

Conclusion of the Social War;

Rome is triumphant over the rebellious Italians.

A

88 BCE

41
Q

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.)

A

80 BCE

Mediterranean Civilization Timeline (3 decks)

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