The Ancient Times

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  • Period: 3000 BCE to 476

    The Ancient Times

  • 1900 BCE

    Abraham escaped from Mesopotamia

  • 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
  • Period: 970 BCE to 930 BCE

    Solomon

    • introduced despotic royal power
    • good relations with neighbours
    • built the Great Temple of Jerusalem
  • Period: 800 BCE to 490 BCE

    Archaic period

    Greek culture
  • 722 BCE

    The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians

  • 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
  • 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
  • 594 BCE

    Solon's reforms

    • set up the Popular Assembly
    • set up the Council of Four Hundred
    • timocracy - 4 income groups
    • democracy
  • 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

  • Cleisthenes's reforms
    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
  • 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

  • 64 BCE

    Judaea became a Roman province

    Pompey conquered Judea
  • The first triumvirate
    60 BCE

    The first triumvirate

    Pompey the Great
    Crassus
    Julius Caesar
  • 59 BCE

    Caesar became consul

  • Period: 58 BCE to 51 BCE

    Caesar - governor of Gaul

  • 50 BCE

    The end of the 1st triumvirate

  • 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

  • Caesar was killed
    44 BCE

    Caesar was killed

  • 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

  • Period: 8 BCE to 4 BCE

    Jesus was born

  • Pontius Pilate is a governor in Judaea
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    Pontius Pilate is a governor in Judaea

  • 313

    Edict of Milan

    • the persecution of Christians was ended
    • Christianity was accepted as a legal religion
  • 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