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The conquests of Alexander the Great

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334 to 323 BC

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The Battle of Chaeronea

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338 BC King Philip II of Macedonia conquers a confederation of Greek city-states and assumes control over Greece.

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Alexander becomes King of Macedonia

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336 upon the death of Philip II

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The Battle of Guagamela

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331 BC Alexander defeats Darius III leading to the defeat of the Persian empire.

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Alexander sacks Persepolis

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330 BC the capital of the Persian empire.

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Alexander dies

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323 BC his empire is split up between his four generals. Ptolemy rules Egypt and makes his capital at Alexandria; the Seleucid dynasty rules Syria.

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The First Punic War

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264 to 241 BC

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The Second Punic War

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218 to 201 BC. Hannibal crosses the Alps and defeats the Roman army in 216 BC.

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Hannibal crosses the Alps and reaches the gates of Rome

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218 BC and 212 BC

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Scipio defeats Hannibal at the Battle of Zama

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202 BC Ending the last major threat to the Roman Empire for centuries.

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The Seleucid King Antiochus the Great wrests Jerusalem from Ptolemaic control

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198 BC. The Seleucids of Syria rule Palestine from 198 to 42 BC.

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The Romans defeat the Macedonians and the Syrians on the plains of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly.

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197 BC This ends Macedonian dominance of Greece.

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Asia Minor becomes a Roman protectorate

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190 BC Lucius Scipio defeats the Seleucid King Antiochus III in a battle near Magnesia.

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The Maccabean Revolt

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167 to 142 BC. Under Judas Maccabeus the Jews gain independence from the Seleucids of Syria, which they maintain until 63 BC. Palestine is ruled by the Hasmoneans. The Jewish sects form: Pharisees; Sadducees; Essenes.

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The Battle of Corinth

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146 BC The Roman Republic defeats the Achaean League at the Battle of Corinth. Greece becomes a Roman province.

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The Third Punic War

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149 to 146 BC It ends with Rome destroying Carthage and gaining complete hegemony in the Mediterranean. The Romans burn Carthage to the ground and sell its citizens into slavery.

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The Spartacus slave revolt

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73 to 71 BC

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Pompey Magnus conquers western Asia

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63 BC Judea becomes a Roman protectorate

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Julius Caesar invades Britain

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55 BC. Rome does not conquer Britain until the first century AD

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Lucretius writes On the Nature of Things

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50 BC

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Caesar crosses the Rubicon

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49 BC

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The Great Roman Civil War

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49-45 BC. Between Caesar and the Populares and the Optimates faction of the Senate, led by Pompey.

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The Battle of Pharsalus

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48 BC in Greece. Caesar defeats Pompey, who flees to Egypt where he is killed.

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Caesar is declared Dictator Perpetuous of Rome and assassinated.

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44 BC by Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus.

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The Battle of Philippi

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42 BC Mark Anthony and Octavian defeat the Republicans Brutus and Cassius, leading to the end of the Republic.

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The Treaty of Brundisium

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40 BC between Mark Anthony and Octavian. Mark Anthony is to rule the east, while Octavian rules the west.

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The Battle of Actium

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31 BC Octavian defeats Mark Anthony and Cleopatra.

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Octavian becomes Caesar Augustus, emperor of Rome

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27 BC

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Virgil completes the Aeneid

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19 BC

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The life of Jesus

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4 BC to 30 AD

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The Battle of the Teutoburg Woods

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9 AD Germanic chieftain Arminius destroys three legions led by General Varus. The defeat permanently halt Roman expansion at the Rhine.

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The Apostles Peter and Paul are martyred in Rome

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64 AD

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The First Jewish Revolt

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67 to 70 AD Led by the Zealots, it ends in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. The Romans capture the fortress of Masada from the Sicarri in 73.

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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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79 AD destroying the City of Pompeii.

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Claudius Ptolemy writes the Almagest

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150 AD

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The Crisis of the Third Century in Rome

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235 to 294 from the assassination of the emperor Alexander Severus by his own troops to the ascension of Diocletian in 294.

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Herod the Great rules Palestine

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37 to 4 BC

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Judea becomes a Roman province

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6 AD

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The rein of Augustus

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27 BC to 14 AD

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Jesus is crucified

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30

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Paul and Peter are martyred

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64

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The first Jewish Revolt

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66-70

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The Romans capture Massada

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  1. 960 Jews commit suicide.
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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  1. Pompey and Heraculaneum are destroyed
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The second Jewish revolt

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132-35 under Simon bar Cochba

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Completion of the Almagest

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150 by Claudius Ptolemy.

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The Crisis of the Third Century

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235-94

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The Battle of Edessa

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  1. Persian King Shapur I captures and kills Roman Emperor Valerian
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The reign of Diocletian

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284-305.

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The Battle of the Milvian Bridge

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  1. Constantine defeats Maxentius and becomes Augustus of the west. He then converts to Christianity.
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The Edict of Milan

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313

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Constantine becomes emperor of all the Roman Empire

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324 upon his defeat of Licinius at the battle of Chrysopolis.

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The Council of Nicea

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325

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The capital of Rome moves to Constantinople

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330

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The Battle of Andrianople

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  1. The Visigoths defeat and kill Emperor Valens
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Theodosius bags pagan and heretical cuts

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381 at the council of Constantinople – a step toward making Christianity the sole religion of the Roman empire.

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Destruction of the Serapeum in Alexandria by a Christian mob

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392

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The permanent split of Rome between east and west with the death of Emperor Theodosius I.

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395

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Saint Jerome completes the Vulgate

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405 his translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew (and/or Greek) into Latin and the New Testament from Greek into Latin.

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The sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth

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410

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Rome withdraws from England

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411

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A Christian mob in Alexandria murders Hypatia

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415

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The writing of Saint Augustine of Hippo

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400 to 430.
Predestination
original sin
advocates for forced conversion

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The Vandals conquer North Africa

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429 to 439, cutting off Rome’s grain supply.

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