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245 00 $aGreat events from history.$pThe ancient world, prehistory-476 C.E. /$ceditor, Mark W. Chavalas ; consulting editors, Mark S. Aldenderfer [and others].
246 30 $aAncient world, prehistory-476 C.E.
260 $aPasadena, Calif. :$bSalem Press,$c2004.
300 $a2 volumes :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
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490 1 $aGreat events from history
500 $aSome essays previously published in Great events from history (1972-1980), Chronology of European history, 15,000 B.C. to 1997 (1997), and Great events from history, North American series (1997).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $av. 1. c. 25,000 B.C.E.-312 B.C.E. -- v. 2. 312 B.C.E.-476 C.E.
505 0 $a400 -- 301 B.C.E. : Building of the Appian way -- 300 -- 201 B.C.E. : Commercial city of Jenne is founded on Niger River -- Jimmu Tenno becomes the first emperor of Japan -- Loazi composes the Dao De Jing -- Euclid compiles a treatise of geometry -- Izapan civilization dominates Mesoamerica -- Hohokam culture arises in American southwest -- Stoics conceptualize natural law -- Yayoi Period begins -- Berber kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania flourish -- Khoikhoi and Kwadi adopt pastoral lifestyle -- Construction of the Mahabodhi temple -- Lex Hortensia reforms the Roman Constitution -- Xunzi develops teachings that lead to legalism -- Composition of the Zhuangzi -- Greeks advance Hellenistic astronomy -- Asoka Reigns over India -- First Punic War -- Discoveries of Archimedes -- Third Buddhist council convenes -- Tipitaka is compiled -- Commissioning of the Septuagint -- Dead sea scrolls are composed -- Buddhism established in Sri Lanka -- Diodotus I founds the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom -- Rise of Parthia -- Exploitation of the Arch -- Qin Dynasty founded in China -- Legalist movement in China -- Advances are made in Chinese agriculture technology -- Second Punic war -- Construction of the Qin Tomb -- Maodun creates a large confederation in central Asia -- Liu Bang captures Qin capital, founds Han Dynasty -- 200 -- 101 B.C.E. : Silk Road opens -- Birth of Hinduism -- Composition of the Intertestamental Jewish Apocrypha -- Bhagavad Gita is created -- Nasca lines drawn in desert near coast of Peru -- Hopewell people construct Earthworks -- Establishment of cursus honorum -- Revolt of the Maccabees -- Roman playwright Terence Dies -- Greco-Bactrian kingdom reaches Zenith under menander -- Third Punic War -- Sack of Corinth -- Wudi rules Han Dynasty China -- Composition of the Huainanzi -- Rise of the Pharisees -- Pergamum is transferred to Rome -- Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus is tribune -- Marius creates a private army -- Dong Zhongshu systematizes Confucianism.
505 0 $a100 -- 1 B.C.E. : Stavahana Dynasty rises to power in South India -- Indian Buddhist nuns compile the Therigatha -- Sima Qian writes Chinese history --1st century C.E., compilation of the Lotus sutra -- Celtic hill forsts are replaced by Oppida -- Zapotec state dominates Oaxaca -- East African trading port of Rhapta Flourishes -- Armenian Empire reaches its peak under Tigranes the great -- Julian Law expands roman citizenship -- Sparticus leads slave revolt -- Catiline conspiracy -- Druidism flourishes in Gaul and Britain -- Caesar conquers Gaul -- Roman poet Catullus dies -- Cicero writes De Republica -- Cleopatra VII, last of Ptolemies, reigns -- Establishment of Julian calendar -- Second Triumvirate Enacts proscriptions -- Battle of Actium -- Completion of the Augustan Settlement -- Roman Poet Vergil dies -- Rhine-Danube frontier is established -- Roman lyric poet Horace Dies -- Birth of Jesus Christ.
505 0 $a1-100 C.E. : Pyu kingdom develops urban culture -- Kingdom of Aksum emerges -- Tai peoples migrate into southeast Asia -- Fourth Buddhist council convenes -- Cankam literature composed in South India -- Alani Gain power -- Kingdom of Funan flourishes -- Development begins at Teotihuacan -- Ovid's Metamorphoses is published -- Battle of Teutoburg forest -- Wang Mang's rise to power -- Guang wudi restores the Han dynasty -- Condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus Christ -- Preaching of the Pentecostal Gospel -- Trung sisters lead Vietnamese rebellion against Chinese -- Roman conquest of Britain -- Creation of the Roman imperial bureaucracy -- Compilation of the New Testament -- Paul writes his letter to the Romans -- Boudicca leads revolt against Roman rule -- Buddhism enters China -- Nero persecutes the Christians -- Year of the four emperors -- Roman destruction of the temple of Jerusalem -- Destruction of Pompeii -- Founding of the classic period Maya Royal Dynasty at Tikal -- Synod of Jamnia -- Ban Zhao Writes behavior guide for young women -- Kushan Dynasty expands into India -- Roman Juvenal composes satires -- Construction of the pyramids of the sun and moon at Teotihuacan -- Moche buld of the Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna.
505 0 $a101 -- 200 C.E. : Cai Lun invents paper -- Trajan adopts anti-Christian religious policy -- Kanishka's Reign brings flowering of the arts -- Dedication of aelia capitolina -- Zhang Doaling founds the celestial masters movement -- Asvaghosa composes complete biography of the Buddha -- Galen synthesizes ancient medical knowledge -- Gaius creates edition of the institutes of roman law -- Yellow turbans rebellion -- Christian apologists develop concept of theology -- Lima culture flourishes on the Central Andean coast -- Maya civilization flourishes -- Anasazi civilization flourishes in American southwest -- 201 -- 300 C.E. : Wang Bi and Guo Xiang revive Daoism -- Huns begin migration west from central Asia -- Giant stelae are raised at Aksum -- Cai Yan composes poetry about her capture by nomads -- Three kingdoms period begins in China -- Ulpian issues dictum in Rome -- Ardashir I establishes the Sasanian empire -- Manichaenism begins in Mesopotamia -- Himiko rules the yamatai -- Outbreak of the Decian persecution -- Saint Denis converts Paris to Christianity -- Sima Yan establishes the western Jin Dynasty -- Inauguration of the dominate in Rome -- Saint Anthony of Egypt begins ascetic life -- West African gold first reaches north Africa -- Licchavi dynasty begins in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal -- Bantu people invent copper metallurgy -- Three kingdoms period forms Korean culture -- Kofun period unifies Japan -- 301 -- 400 C.E. : Ezana expands Aksum, later converts to Christianity -- Ancient Ghana emerges -- Shapur II Raigns over Sasanian Empire -- Conversion of Constantine to Christianity -- Inception of church-state problem -- Wester Jin Dynasty falls -- Adoption of the Nicene creed -- Constantinople is founded -- Failure of Julian's pagan revival -- Asanga helps spread Mahayana Buddhism -- Battle of Adrianople -- Theodosius's edicts promote Christian orthodoxy -- Gupta dynasty reaches its peak under Chandragupta II -- Saint Jerome creates the Vulgate -- Toba establishes the northern Wei dynasty in China -- Ojin Tenno, first historical emperor of Japan, Reigns -- Ge Choafu founds the Lingbao tradition of Doaism -- Chinese monk Faxian travels to India -- Kalidasa Composes Sanskrit poetry and plays.
505 0 $a401 -- 476 C.E. : Lydenburg Bantus sculpt life size terra-cotta heads -- First major Text on Hinduism's great goddess is compiled -- Statesman Tao Qian becomes farmer and Daoist poet -- Gothic armies sack Rome -- Saint Augustine writes the City of God -- Mathematician and Philosopher Hypatia is killed in Alexandria -- Southern dynasties period begins in China -- Nestorian controversy -- Vandals seize Carthage -- Invasions of Attila the Hun -- Saxon settlement of Britain begins -- Conversion of Ireland to Christianity -- Era of the Nine saints -- Battle of Chalons -- Council of Chalcedon -- Buddhist temples built at Ajanta Caves in India -- Bodhidharma brings Chan Buddhism to China -- Fall of Rome.
520 $aEvents covered are from prehistory to 476 C.E., including details on the population of South America, the Upanishads, acupuncture, the Parthenon, Nero's persecution of Christians, St. Augustine's City of God, and more.
650 0 $aHistory, Ancient.
650 7 $aHistory, Ancient.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958352
700 1 $aChavalas, Mark W.$q(Mark William),$d1954-
700 1 $aAldenderfer, Mark S.
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