Part 66

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Rome= | =Greeks= | =Egypt= | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | | | =II. Formation of | | | | | Greek States= | | | | | (1100-500) | | | | | | | | =1100=|1100. The Etruscans |1100-950. Great mi- | | | |already in central |grations in Greece of|1091. At beginning of| | |Italy. |Dorians and Thessa- |the twenty-first dy- | | | |lians. Ionic colonies|nasty two lines of | | | |founded in Asia |kings: one at Thebes | | | |Minor. |and another at Tanis.| | | | |Power of Tanis | | | |1068. Codrus, last |established and great| | | |king of Athens. Be- |wall built. | | | |ginning of rule of | | | | |archons. | | | | | | | | =1000=| |1000. Period of | _A very complex | | | |_HOMER_. Poems of | and obscure period._| | | |Homer reflect the | | | | |Mycenæan and Aegean |987-952. Pasebkhanu | | | |period of the Greeks.|II. King Solomon | | | | |married one of his | | | | |daughters. | | | | | | | | | |952. Sheshanq | | | | |(Shishak of the | | | | |Bible), married to | | | | |sister of the wife of| | | | |King Solomon. Great | | | | |conquests in Syria. | | | | |Capture of Jerusalem.| | =900= | | | | | | |820. Legislation of | | | | |LYCURGUS founded the | | | | |stability of Sparta. | | | =800= | | | | | | | |780. Rise of indepen-| | | |776. FIRST OLYMPIAD, |dent kingdom in | | | |or first year the |Nubia. | | | |Olympian victor was | | | | |recorded. | | | | =I. Mythical Period | | | | | of the Kings= | | | | | (753-510) | | | | | | | | | |753-716. Romulus. | | | | | | | | | |753. ROME founded. | | | | | | | | | |750. Sabines incorpo-|750-550. Colonizing | | | |rated with Romans. |period of the Greeks.| | | | | | | | | |743-724. FIRST MES- | | | | |SENIAN WAR between | | | | |Messenia and Sparta. | =VI. Nubian Period= | | | | | (722-654) | | | | | | | | | |722. Egypt lost | | | | |Palestine to Assyria.| | |715-673. Numa Pompi- | | | | |lius. Traditional | |707. Shabako, the | | |founder of religious | |Nubian, gains all | | |institutions. | |Egypt, incites revolt| | | | |in Syria and Pales- | | | | |tine against Sargon. | | | | |Later is defeated by | | | | |Sennacherib. | | =700= |700-200. Etruscan | | | | |influence very | | | | |strong. | | | | | | | | | |673-641. Tullus | | | | |Hostilius. Alba Longa| |670-660. Assyrian | | |destroyed. | |supremacy. Nubians | | | | |expelled by Ashur- | | | | |bani-pal but hold | | | | |Thebes until 654. | | | | | | | | | |653-610. PSAMETIK I. | | | |645-628. SECOND |re-united Egypt. In | | |641-616. Ancus |MESSENIAN WAR. Sparta|alliance with Gyges, | | |Marcius. Capture of |victorious. |King of Lydia, made | | |Ostia. War with | |Egypt independent of | | |Latins. |625. Corinth at its |Assyria. Built a mag-| | | |zenith. PERIANDER, |nificent palace at | | | |tyrant. |Sais, the new | | | | |capital. _Revival of | | | |621. LAWS OF DRACO at|art, religion and | | |616-578. Tarquinius |Athens. |literature._ | | |Priscus. Treaty with | | | | |Latins. Temple of | |610-595. NEKU II. In-| | |Jupiter on the | |vades Syria, but is | | |capitol. | |vanquished at | | |_Important advance in| |Carchemish by | | |power and civiliza- | |Nebuchadnezzar II. of| | |tion._ | |Babylonia. | | =600= | |600-590. FIRST SACRED| | | | |WAR. | | | | | | | | | |594. SOLON, archon of| | | |578-534. Servius |Athens. | | | |Tulius. Rome con- |_Laws and reforms._ |570-526. AAHMES II. | | |solidated. Rise of | |Encouraged Greek | | |patricians and |560-527. PISISTRATUS,|settlement. Magnifi- | | |plebians. |tyrant of Athens. |cent buildings at | | | |Ionia and Greek |Naucratis and Sais. | | | |cities of Asia con- | | | | |quered by Cyrus of | | | | |Persia. | | | | | | | | |534-510. Tarquinius |=The Rise of Athens.=| | | |Superbus. End of the | |525. Psametik III. | | |Kings. Rome a Re- | |defeated by Cambyses | | |public with two | |at Pelusium. Egypt a | | |Consuls. | |Persian province. | | | | | | | | | |520. Capture of | | | | |Thebes (Luxor) and | | | | |transplantation of | | | | |6000 Egyptians to | | | | |Susiana. | | | | | | | | | |The Persian kings | | | =II. The Republic to| |exact a large tri- | | | the Beginning of the| |bute. The fisheries | | | Punic Wars= | |of Lake Mœris, etc. | | | (510-264) |510. Athenian demo- | | | | |cracy fully | | | |Struggle between |established. | | | |patricians and | | | | |plebians and develop-| | | | |ment of Roman con- | | | | |solidation. | | | | | | | | | |508. First commercial| | | | |treaty with Carthage.| | | | =500= | | =III. Persian Wars= | | | | | (500-449) | | | |498. First Dictator. |See under Persia. | | | |First struggle, on | | | | |account of the op- | | | | |pression of the | | | | |debtors. | | | | | | | | | |493. Tribunes of the | | | | |people. | | | | | | | | | |491. Comitia Tributa,| | | | |in which the people |490. =Marathon.= The | | | |have the prepon- |Athenians under | | | |derance. |Miltiades defeated | | | | |the Persians under | | | | |Datis. Free govern- | | | |Second struggle, |ment and Greek | | | |respecting the |civilization saved. | | | |division of lands. |_Athens mistress of | | | | |the sea._ | | | | | | | | | |489. Miltiades | | | |486. First Agrarian |attacks Poros and |486. Revolts, but is | | |law. |fails. His condem- |again subdued by | | |Continual wars |nation and death |Xerxes. | | |against the neigh- |follow. |The tribute in- | | |boring states. | |creased. | | | |485. Gelo, master of | | | | |Syracuse. | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

+-------+---------------------+---------------------+ |=B. C.=| =Phœnicia-Lydia |=China, Japan, India=| | | Phrygia= | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+ | =1100=|1100. Tyre attains | | | |first rank among |China: 1123-255. Chow| | |Phœnician seacoast |dynasty. Feudal | | |towns. |system developed. | | =1000=| | | | |970. King Hiram sent | | | |material for Solo- | | | |mon’s Temple. | | | =900= | | | | |846. CARTHAGE founded| | | |by Elissa (Dido). | | | | | | | =800= |800. Phrygia an inde-|India: 800. Bramanic | | |pendent monarchy. |period of Vedic | | | |literature. | | | | | | | |China: 780-700. | | |728. Midas of Phrygia|Constant struggles | | |foments rebellion |between central power| | |against rule of |and feudal states. | | |Sargon in Northern | | | |Syria. | | | | | | | |727. Tyre captured by| | | |Assyria. Phœnician | | | |decline begins. | | | | | | | =700= |700. Cimmerian in- | | | |vasion shortly | | | |destroys Phrygian | | | |Kingdom. | | | | | | | |689. GYGES, first | | | |important King of |Japan: 660-585. Jimmu| | |Lydia. |Tenno, first Mikado. | | | |Largely legendary. | | |636. Last Assyrian | | | |governor of Phœnicia.| | | | | | | |610. Alyattes, King | | | |of Lydia, battles | | | |with Cyaxares of | | | |Media. Erected mag- | | | |nificent buildings at| | | |Sardis. | | | | | | | =600= | | | | |586-573. Tyre be- | | | |sieged by | | | |Nebuchadnezzar. | | | |Phœnicia a Persian | | | |province (538). | | | | | | | |568. CRŒSUS, son of | | | |Alyattes, subdued all| | | |the Grecian cities of| | | |the coast. | | | | |China: 551. | | |546. SARDIS CAPTURED |_CONFUCIUS_ born. | | |and Lydia absorbed |Greatest figure in | | |into Persian Empire. |Chinese history. | | | | | | |538. Phœnicia became |This great Chinese | | |a Persian province. | | | | |philosopher, intro- | | |530. CARTHAGE becomes| | | |independent. |duces a new religion,| | | | | | |Phœnicia: through its|opposed to that of | | | | | | |influence the whole |Fohi, and boldly | | | | | | |country is allowed to|inveighs against the | | | | | | |carry on its trade as|vice and immorality | | | | | | |usual, under the |of the times. | | | | | | |authority and protec-| | | | | | | |tion of the king of | | | | | | | |Persia. | | | | | | | |508. Carthage makes | | | |its first commercial | | | |treaty with Rome. | | | | | | | =500= |500. Carthage trades | | | |with the Greeks. | | | | | | | |Carthage effects an | | | |alliance with the | | | |Persians against | | | |Sicily. | | +-------+---------------------+---------------------+