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Period: 3000 BCE to 476
The Ancient Times
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1900 BCE
Abraham escaped from Mesopotamia
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1650 BCE
Jacob's sons left Canaan
went to Egypt to escape famine -
1200 BCE
Moses liberated the Jews from slavery
Yahweh appeared in a burning bush and commanded Moses to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt into Canaan -
Period: 1047 BCE to 1007 BCE
Saul
first king of the Jews
united the 12 Hebrew tribes into a state against the Philistines -
Period: 1007 BCE to 970 BCE
David
- defeated the Philistines
- consolidated the kingdom
- Jerusalem became the capital
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Period: 970 BCE to 930 BCE
Solomon
- introduced despotic royal power
- good relations with neighbours
- built the Great Temple of Jerusalem
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Period: 800 BCE to 490 BCE
Archaic period
Greek culture -
722 BCE
The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians
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Period: 699 BCE to 600 BCE
Athens was an aristocratic republic - 7th century BC
9 archons
the Council of the Areopagus
demos - the artisans/craftsmen, merchants, ship owners and peasants together -
621 BCE
Draco - introduced a written law code
- these were harsh laws (written in blood)
- the laws were made public and were applied equally for everyone
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Period: 597 BCE to 539 BCE
The Babylonian captivity
- the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the New Babylonians
- part of the population was deported to Babylon
- Persians allowed the Jews to return home
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594 BCE
Solon's reforms
- set up the Popular Assembly
- set up the Council of Four Hundred
- timocracy - 4 income groups
- democracy
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Period: 560 BCE to 527 BCE
Tyranny of Pisistratus
His rule was mild and beneficent, under his rule Athens prospered -
510 BCE
The end of the tyranny in Athens
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508 BCE
Cleisthenes's reforms
- 10 new administrative units = 10 phylae
- citizens from the city + the inland countryside + the seacoast
- the new administrative system ensured more influence for the demos
- the Council of Five Hundred
- ostracism
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Period: 490 BCE to 323 BCE
Classical period
Greek culture -
Period: 444 BCE to 429 BCE
Pericles
daily salaries for the work in the Council of 500, in the Popular Court and for visiting drama performances were introduced ==>> the poor also could participate in political life (= could exercise their political rights) -
Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE
Hellenictic period
Greek culture -
Period: 74 BCE to 71 BCE
Spartacus slave uprising
Capua -
70 BCE
Pompey and Crassus became consuls
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64 BCE
Judaea became a Roman province
Pompey conquered Judea -
60 BCE
The first triumvirate
Pompey the Great
Crassus
Julius Caesar -
59 BCE
Caesar became consul
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Period: 58 BCE to 51 BCE
Caesar - governor of Gaul
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50 BCE
The end of the 1st triumvirate
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49 BCE
Caesar crossed the river Rubicon
‘The die is cast!’ -
48 BCE
the Battle of Pharsalus
Pompey got defeated -
Period: 48 BCE to 44 BCE
Caesar's dictatorship
he centralized power step by step -
45 BCE
Caesar became a dictator for life
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44 BCE
Caesar was killed
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43 BCE
The 2nd triumvirate
formed to defeat Caesar's assassins
Mark Anthony
Lepidus
Gaius Octavius -
42 BCE
The battle of Philippi
Caesar's assassins (Brutus and Cassius) were defeated -
31 BCE
The battle of Actium
Octavian defeated Anthony -
30 BCE
Egypt became a province
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Period: 8 BCE to 4 BCE
Jesus was born
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33
Pontius Pilate is a governor in Judaea
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313
Edict of Milan
- the persecution of Christians was ended
- Christianity was accepted as a legal religion
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325
the Council of Nicea
accepted the basic dogmas of Christianity -
337
Christianity became a favoured religion
by Constantine the Great -
381
Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire
the Council of Constantinople