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Middle Eastern empires - Wikipedia  Middle Eastern empires have existed in the Middle East at various periods between 5000 BCE .... One of these was the nation of the Amorites ("westerners"), which took over Isin, Larsa, ... Their kings are known as the First Dynasty of Babylon. ... After this war had been brought to a successful end, Hammurabi turned against...
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Herodotus: 1.26-56 & 71-91 - The Latin Library  When all these conquests had been added to the Lydian empire, and the prosperity of ... When he had ended, Croesus inquired a second time, who after Tellus ... two hundred and fifty, whereof not one but will produce events unlike the rest. .... them what Croesus the son of Alyattes, king of Lydia, was doing at that moment.
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ElAnt v3n7 - Herodotus's Report on Thales' Eclipse  Feb 18, 2014 ... When the Lydians and Medes alike saw that it had become night in ... the Median king Kyaxares and the Lydian Alyattes who, Herodotos ... (04) Herodotos's narrative of these events implies that Kyaxares continued to rule the Medes .... the report that Thales predicted the solar eclipse marking the war's end.
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JOHN BURNET'S EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY, CHAPTER I., THE ...  Now it is possible to predict eclipses of the moon approximately without knowing .... that Anaximander mentioned what his age had been at the time of that event. ... These were at war, and any predominance of one over the other was an .... of thinkers who started with water as the primary substance and ended with "air," and...
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The Story of Croesus  The trouble began (say the Persians) on one of these trading missions to Argos, ... judge the Greeks guilty of the second violation when, after sailing a war-ship across the ... Croesus was a Lydian by birth and the son of king Alyattes. ..... Then another event put an end to his mourning: the kingdom of the Medes and King...
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Jericho History - Motherbird  At the ground level at Tell es Sultan was a culture called the Natufians (after another site called Wadi ... They made their settlement at the spring around 8,000 BC. .... Finally the native kings of southern Egypt overthrew the Hyksos kings around 1650 BC. The Hyksos had brought the first horses and war chariots into Egypt.
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Battle of Issus - Wikipedia  The Battle of Issus occurred in southern Anatolia, in November 333 BC between the Hellenic ... In November, Alexander received reports that the great Persian army had ... The Persians saw that their Great King had gone and that the battle was ... After the battle, the Hellenes captured Darius' wife, Stateira I, his daughters,...
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Bible Time Lines and Chronology - Teachinghearts.org  A 3 mile wide comet hit the Indian ocean 900 miles south east of ... east Turkey, thriving in 2500 BC, was conquered by the Akkadians (Sargon or his ... 1689 BC, 1836, *2315, 1915 BC, Jacob dies at age 147 and blesses his .... David becomes king of Israel and reigns for 40 years (33 in Jerusalem). .... Restored in 323 BC.
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Bible prophecies fulfilled by Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire  Bible prophecies fulfilled during ancient times with the defeat and decline of the ... Biblical prophecy fulfilled by the Assyrian Empire and its great city of Nineveh ... The conquest of Nineveh in 612 BC, by a coalition of Babylonians and others, ... of Babylonians, Scythians and Medes conquered the heavily fortified city.
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In "The Pit and the Pendulum," did General Lasalle's arrival seem an ...  Nov 30, 2013 ... The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies. ... The trumpets are an allusion to the trumpets that are mentioned as heralding the end times in the Bible, ... The ending is therefore meant to point to the allegory within this tale...
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Battle of the Pyramids - Wikipedia  The Battle of the Pyramids, also known as the Battle of Embabeh, was a major engagement fought on July 21, 1798 during the French Invasion of Egypt. The French army under Napoleon Bonaparte scored a decisive victory against the forces of the local Mamluk rulers, wiping out almost the entire Egyptian army. ... His Mamluk cavalry deployed on the desert flank.
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Akhenaten - Discovering Ancient Egypt  Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten and defied tradition by establishing a new religion that believed that there is but one god; the sun god Aten. ... He moved his capital from Thebes to a place now called Tell el-Amarna or Amarna,...
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1 Samuel Chapter 4 Explained  Israel defeated by the Philistines, the Philistines capture the ark, The death of Eli. ... "And when they joined battle": Engaged with each other, the Israelites doing the ... 1 Samuel 4:3 "And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of ... of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.".
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Seven Against Thebes | Greek mythology | Britannica.com  In Greek mythology, the seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus, the king of that city. The twins ... When Eteocles refused to give up the throne, Adrastus mobilized an army, whose chieftains, ... Other authors count Adrastus as one of the Seven and omit Hippomedon or Polyneices.
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The End of the Byzantine Empire, 1081-1453  The End of the Byzantine Empire, 1081-1453 ... of April, 1204, the ancient capital of the Caesars bowed for the first time to a foreign foe.' Then followed a scene of horror rarely surpassed in all the dark history of war. ... their poor play of imperial greatness in that distant province, until it was ended by Mohammed II in 1461.
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part two - the meridian of time , the universal apostasy  AD 0650 Fall of West Turkish Empire; Rise of Khazar Empire ..... AD 1071 Battle of Manzikert: Turks of Anatolia defeat Byzantine army; the decline of the Byzantine Empire begins ... AD 1187 Saladin captures Jerusalem after a siege ...... the British fleet allowing Yorktown to be besieged; Cornwallis surrenders Yorktown.
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The Israelites Crossed the Red Sea at the Gulf of Aqaba and Mount ...  The Sinai Peninsular was Egyptian controlled territory in the day of the Exodus ... This great photo shows the Gulf of Suez to the left and the Gulf of Aqaba to the right. ... Some writers have identified the whole of the peninsula as 'The Wilderness of ... border of the Gulf of Suez, and this then was the wilderness of the Red Sea.
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The Battle of Kadesh | Ancient Wars - The Finer Times  The Battle of Kadesh is a battle that occurred nearly three thousand years ago ... chariots were used making it one of the largest chariot battles ever fought. ... The Egyptian Empire had lost a lot of land over time and decided they ... All that separated Ramesses army from the Hittites was the river Orontes and 11 kilometres.
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BBC History - Henry VII  Henry VII ended the dynastic wars known as the Wars of the Roses, founded the ... of Edward III, which gave Henry a real, although tenuous, claim to the throne.
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Egyptian Myth and Legend: Chapter II: The Tragedy of Osiris  He caused peace to prevail at length over all the land of Egypt. ... So it happened that one after another entered the chest on that fateful night, .... The coffin of Osiris was borne to the ship in which the queen goddess had sailed unto Syria. .... It was believed by the ancient agriculturists that the tears of Isis caused the river to...
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The Message of the Sphinx A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of ...  Orion's belt crossing the meridian of the Great Pyramid in 2500 BC. ..... the Sphinx symbolised the king, and its face was carved in Khafre's likeness. ..... to the south (dating from around Khafre's period) were cut from the same member of rock. ...... that could create giant stone statues more than 240 feet long, and that could lift...