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Sentence Examples Standard decimal units of length were established in China around 200 BC and later further subdivisions occurred. When the BC bud was traded for American cocaine, said elements sold the coke and were left with an embarrassing whack of cash. It was a place of ritual burial from c. 2000 BC, long before the arrival of the Celts in Ireland. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley. Gaius Octavius, as Augustus was originally known, was 18 when in 43 BC his great-uncle, the dictator Julius Caesar, was assassinated. The minutes of last year's meeting in Victoria, BC, were accepted without emendation. Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia. Tax collectors appear on Egyptian tomb paintings from 2000 BC, and St Matthew, one of the 12 disciples, was a tax collector. The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor. In 55 BC, Celtic warriors used cavalry and horse-drawn chariots to oppose Caesar's invasion. The Institute is also working hard to represent the voice of BC members on the national scene. There is evidence from 4000 BC in the Swiss lake habitations that the people made it from barley and rye flour. In the eighth century BC there must have been lots of large villages in the Central Mediterranean populated by refugees and runaways. The Boeotian league began in the 5th century BC as a political federation under the leadership of Thebes. Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians. They were first made in Egypt as early as 4000 BC and were essential adornments for both the living and the dead. It was suggested that Tom use only his shortie wetsuit and adjust his attitude in the water using weights in the BC pocket and on a chest strap. During 800 BC Alexander the Great conquered the Grecian Empire of city-states and Greece became part of the Macedonian Empire. The sale of the marine shipping assets represents an about-face in direction for BC Rail in recent years. Show More Sentences The Sumerians, however, revolted against Akkadian rule and by 2100 BC they were back in control. In 531 BC, after a life of searching, Sakyamuni attained the state of Nirvana and became a Buddha. The school may have been refounded later in the first century BC by Andronicus of Rhodes, but this is uncertain. In the Far East, coinage developed in India in the 5th century BC through contacts with Persian coinage by Mauryans and Kushans. Between about 8000 BC and 6000 BC rising sea levels severed the land bridge between Britain and the Continent. We zipped Jack into his drysuit, found his weightbelt, helped him into his borrowed BC and watched him do his buddy-check. A major regional road system was established by the Assyrians during the seventh century BC and inherited by the Persian Empire. As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes. Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus. It came successively under Etruscan and Greek influences, and in c. 424 BC was occupied by the Samians. The city fell to the Babylonians in c. 587 BC and was extensively destroyed. In the course of the first century BC, Belgic culture became dominant in southern Britain. In 196 BC Rome established a new Thessalian Confederacy which survived the absorption of the area into the Roman province of Macedonia. It was built in the third century BC in the time of King Pyrrhus of Epiros, but was remodelled by the Romans. The period from 1150 BC to AD 150 witnessed active erosion and sedimentation on floodplains and in channels. The game fish of British Columbia, Canada, are sought after by anglers from around the world who come to BC for it's incredible sportfishing. This bronze Daedalic statuette, perhaps of Apollo, dates from the 7th century circa 630 BC and is approximately 6 inches high. These are burial mounds of Bronze Age date, many from about 2000 BC to 1500 BC and they cluster in their hundreds around the Stonehenge area. In 58 BC, the Roman leader Julius Caesar called the region's Belgae tribes the toughest opponents he had faced. Political unification did not come until about 2370 BC with the conquest by the Semites of Akkad. Show More Sentences In 130 BC the Romans overcame the Greeks and Greece became part of the Roman Empire. Their work has established the date of composition of the Rig Veda as 3750 BC and deciphered the writing on the Indus seals as Vedic. For bushwhackers or skiers who want extra stability, Alpina offers the BC Outbound. It may have been carried from India in the fourth century BC by returning soldiers and camp followers of the Greek wars of conquest in Asia. The fast cats were on their way from BC Ferries' Deas Dock to Canada Place, where they will be sold on Monday. The first recorded outbreak on the mainland of BC occurred in 1938 when native lodgepole pine planted as ornamentals in Vancouver were attacked. From at least 500 BC to the mid-nineteenth century virtually all ships' sails were made from hemp. The chronologies suggested for all these invasions are hopelessly irreconcilable, going as low as 2300 BC for the Osco-Umbrians. The two statues themselves are dated as early 6th century BC, which was the time of transition from Daedalic to early Archaiac art. An overweighted diver will have to put extra air into a BC or drysuit to maintain neutral buoyancy. In 23 BC, Octavian gave up the consulate, but the senate forced him to keep power over the provinces. By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly. Ur ceased to exist in the 4th century BC, probably because the River Euphrates changed course. By about 400 BC a form of mass production had been introduced and individual ironmasters were employing hundreds of workers. From about 2500 BC onwards, the cuneiform script was also used to write Akkadian and Eblaite, which are Semitic languages. Interestingly, the blow pipe wasn't invented until the 1st century BC and so glass-blowing is unknown before then. By the first century BC, Greece had fallen into decline, lost its outlying territories, and been assimilated into the Roman Empire. Once identified, the tops were cut from the trees and then sent to their seed farm in Vernon, BC where they were grafted onto root stock. By 724 BC the leprous king Uzziah of Judah had not been seen for a while and finally in that year he died. The circle with diameter BC intersects the sides AB and AC at M and N respectively. Show More Sentences Terracotta votives from the third to the early first century BC were found deposited in the megaron beside the temple. The pyramid of Cheops was looted by grave robbers about 2,000 BC, some 700 years after his death. But we did, in a civic ceremony in downtown Vancouver, BC, conducted with a speed and romance that suggested our officiator was double-parked. About 17 years earlier, in 519 BC, the first exiles had returned from Babylon with high hopes of a new life. I spent time in Northern BC with my family after my dad decided not to re-up in the service during Vietnam. The stone statue of King Shalmaneser III, from the 9th century BC, was returned in four pieces. One of the first recorded attacks was in the seventh century BC when the Assyrians used a fungal disease called ergot to poison water supplies. But by 300 BC, these tribes had acquired horses and used their equestrian skills to develop very effective cavalry tactics. Ideally, pull over to make the call but if you are not able to, an emergency call to 911 is allowed under the new BC cell phone driving law. Luxury vessels and midsize ships sail from Vancouver, BC and Seattle. Sherry Webster lives in Quesnel, BC, on a cattle ranch with her husband of 24 years, Doug, where they also raise Quarter Horses. By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart. We then divided BC into quartiles according to bimodal BP distribution. Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools. They have worked hard to make BC a better place by consistently and loudly demanding lower tax drains on high-flying wealth generators like themselves. The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs. The Mahaboddhi Temple was originally a shrine built in the third century BC by Asoka, one of India's earliest and most reverentially remembered emperors. There is evidence in these later Epipaleolithic sites of a population explosion around 5500 BC, possibly due to the development of true agriculture. Having said that, it would be an error to pretend that Rome in 73 BC was the mirror image of the United States. Bronze rapiers and gold torcs survive from c. 1000 BC, while from c. 700 BC there are trumpets and cauldrons in bronze, as well as many types of gold ornament. Show More Sentences Needless to say, the BC treaty process has collapsed and failed to produce any results, so you have a very desperate situation in our communities. By the eighth century BC, the Greek city-state, or polis, had taken shape. By around 5,000 BC a focus had developed at the confluence of the Nene and a small tributary, where people stopped to light fires, knap flint, and perform domestic tasks. Like most of the Assyrian cities, Ashur was sacked in 612 BC when the ferocious and warlike Assyrians were finally overwhelmed by the combined forces of Babylonians and Medes. Before 2500 BC, these states were capable of far-reaching campaigns employing phalanxes of drilled spearmen, ass-drawn battlewagons, and fortified garrison posts. In the fourth millennium BC it was divided into two sections by means of a wall, the outer section being used as a sheepfold and the inner as a living area. At the request of BC Ferries, the remaining survivors in Hartley Bay were put aboard the CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier and taken to Prince Rupert. Masters and mates employed by BC Transit have been offered a refresher course in the use of radar at the Pacific Marine Training Institute. Further information regarding the individual fields can be found in the description of the BC Bank Master data file. Will Vancouver Tourism and BC Tourism kiosks be able to offer services in French? Under the new legislation, the BC Safety Authority will replace the provincial safety engineering division to monitor gas and electrical installations. The picture on the right is a replica of a game found in a royal tomb at Ur dated around 2600 BC which makes it one of the oldest game boards in existence. Archaeologists working in a fragile wetland site in Somerset, England, uncovering a trackway built in 3600 BC across the marshes. He has also gone further afield including BC and Alberta in Canada, Utah, and Britain but his local crags are the limestone outcrops of the Niagara escarpment. Let's dust off the Westray Bill and start using it to stop the killing in BC and Canada once and for all. Amongst the earliest structures revealed during the survey were trackways from the 4th millennium BC, visible only very rarely at extreme low water. But CMHC hasn't shown any interest in moving quickly to fix the BC co-ops facing serious damage from leaky buildings. Paralympic gold medalist, Paul Gauthier of Vancouver, BC won two more games and is sitting atop his pool in the BC3 category. After his return from a successful year administrating Spain Caesar was elected consul for 59 BC through political alliance with Pompey and Crassus. Paralympic gold medalist, Paul Gauthier of Vancouver, BC led the way with an easy 19-0 victory against Yibran Cortes Pacheco of Mexico. Show More Sentences That would sell the Canadian Duality Flag in a minute, a redneck from Victoria BC assured us. The first Roman coins were struck in the early 3rd century BC, initially in precious metals but by the later 3rd century in bronze as the as and the denarius in silver. This marble was intensely exported towards Rome in the 1rst century BC, as the archeological testimonies of the Augustan period confirm. In the BC 1 and 2 combined category, the Canadians lost 6-4 to Norway in the quarterfinal for sixth place overall. But as the Wolf Pack prepare to gear up for their 2009 BC College Athletic Association regular season, Clark finds herself in a new role. It's an Archaic Stage site spanning the period 7500 BC through to AD 1200 in fourteen distinct cultural horizons represented by over 10.5m of stratigraphy. Centuries of conflict between the Gauls and Romans ended in 52 BC, when Julius Caesar's legions took control of the territory and the settlement became a Roman town. At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation. In the fourth century BC, temples of healing, venerating the god Asclepias were erected all over the Grecian world from Epidaurus to Tricca, from Pergamon to Corinth. Erected around 3,500 BC, it has the largest capstone in Europe. Emperors and officials of various dynasties including Emperor Qinshihuang in 210 BC made obeisance and offered sacrifices at the Mausoleum of Yu the Great. In 1150 BC, in ancient Egypt, all the wives of the pharaoh Ramses III had all hair removed, from underarms to pubic area. And there was no musical interlude by BC members this time to liven up the presentation. The Return of the G'psgolox Pole, is a documentary about the Haisla community in Kitimaat Village in Northern BC and their quest to bring home a long-lost totem pole. In the classical galleries, three Cycladic terracotta vases dating to about 2000 BC are extraordinary in their craftsmanship, preservation and rarity. District office staff worked with these establishments to ensure they abided by local Bylaws and the BC Guest Registration Act. Diana Krall at BC Scene is the must-be-there event of the season and the perfect Christmas gift for any music lover. But some scholars assert that fair skinned Aryans invaded India during 1500 BC and defeated dark skinned Dravidians and pushed them into South India. We just don't want to predetermine results of negotiations because that may not be what BC wants. This is simply to say thank you to Constable Seidl of the Langley BC Division for his professionalism in handling an issue for me yesterday. Show More Sentences Civilisation arose during the 4th millennium BC and revolved initially around a southern Sumerian culture that invented an ideogrammatic script. The interval from 66-112 cm is also now part of the BC horizon of the surface soil and an illuvial horizon of the fragipan. These have been dated to 2700-2200 cal BC and are here found with foxtail millet and beans of an unknown species. Frizette Stakes winner Sutra will probably line up in the BC Juvenille Fillies. Recent radiocarbon dating indicates that populations survived as recently as 8,000 BC in western Siberia. The river appears in the Ebro Treaty of 226 BC between Rome and Carthage, setting the limit of Carthaginian interest at the Ebro. In the sixth century BC, the Carthaginians arrived in the peninsula while struggling with the Greeks for control of the Western Mediterranean. It was used to turn copper into bronze from around 2200 BC and widely traded throughout Britain and into Ireland. This first stage is dated to around 3100 BC, after which the ditch began to silt up naturally. During the 20th century BC, the Canaanite speaking Amorites began to migrate into southern Mesopotamia. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony will be held at BC Place Stadium on Feb. In 700-640 BC the style was strongly influenced by Egyptian painting, and this became known as the Orientalizing period. Biswas A, Si BC Revealing the controls of soil water storage at different scales in a hummocky landscape. Meanwhile, Celtic culture and influence in Gaul began to wane during the first century BC as a result. One of these small Amorite kingdoms founded in 1894 BC contained the then small administrative town of Babylon within its borders. Another prominent calendrical system was developed around 300 BC by the Oromo. From 800 BC onwards, the Iron Age Celtic Hallstatt culture became influential, replacing the Hilversum culture. This structure was inhabited for 900 years from 3700 BC but was evidently built on the site of an even older settlement. The Secular Ode of Horace, commissioned by Augustus, was performed publicly in 17 BC by a mixed children's choir. The Ninth remained with Octavian in his war of 31 BC against Mark Antony and fought by his side in the battle of Actium. Show More Sentences A radiocarbon date of between 50 BC and AD 70 was obtained from charcoal recovered from its infill. Boar hunting became particularly popular among the young nobility during the 3rd century BC as preparation for manhood and battle. The city still celebrates Scottish Heritage week which concludes with the BC Highland Games. Agriculture was introduced during the 5th millennium BC by migrants from the south and east. The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. However, evidence for copper production in this region before 1000 BC is debated. In other regions of Europe the Iron Age began in the 8th century BC in Central Europe and the 6th century BC in Northern Europe. The beginning of the 1st millennium BC saw extensive developments in iron metallurgy in India. Gold artifacts such as the golden hats and the Nebra disk appeared in Central Europe from the 2nd millennium BC Bronze Age. In 2015, BC Ferries carried more than 8 million vehicles and 20 million passengers. The BC system was also used in textbooks published by the Hong Kong government. The occupation by the Persian Achaemenid Empire of Thrace and Macedonia around 500 BC is a factor of uncertain importance. The collections date from 2700 BC onwards and are drawn from Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Glazed Stoneware was being created as early as the 15th century BC in China. The earliest pottery vessels date back to 18,000 BC and were discovered in Xianrendong cave in Jiangxi, China. In 400 BC Iran, Persian engineers had already mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. For example, about 4000 BC the Nile was dammed to improve agricultural productivity of previously barren lands. Literary production of the antiquity includes the Cypria, an epic poem, probably composed in the late 7th century BC and attributed to Stasinus. The Neolithic Revolution was introduced in the 6th millennium BC by the Cardial culture coming from the Italian Peninsula. By 5 BC the Roman knowledge of the Sea was greatly expanded as far as the Elbe by a military expedition under Tiberius. Show More Sentences In 278 BC Gaulish settlers in the Balkans were invited by Nicomedes I of Bithynia to help him in a dynastic struggle against his brother. The Gauls were finally conquered by Julius Caesar in the 50s BC despite a rebellion by the Arvernian chieftain Vercingetorix. Climate changes or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. The Hyksos invaders took over much of Lower Egypt around 1650 BC and founded a new capital at Avaris. It has been given a calibrated radiocarbon date of 4040 BC to 3640 BC and is on display in the National Museum of Scotland. Geometric designs on pottery of the eighth century BC depict scenes from the Trojan cycle as well as the adventures of Heracles. Geometric designs on pottery of the eighth century BC depict scenes from the Trojan cycle, as well as the adventures of Heracles. Pytheas travelled to the British Isles about 325 BC and seems to be the first to have related spring tides to the phase of the moon. From 650 BC onwards, the aristocracies had to fight not to be overthrown and replaced by populist tyrants. Greece thus entered the 4th century BC under a Spartan hegemony, but it was clear from the start that this was weak. The Greek peninsula came under Roman rule during the 146 BC conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. From about 750 BC the Greeks began 250 years of expansion, settling colonies in all directions. In the 3rd century BC Aristarchus of Samos was the first to suggest a heliocentric system. Artificial incubation of poultry was practised in China around 246 BC and around at least 400 BC in Egypt. Greek colonisation of the Adriatic dates back to the 7th and 6th centuries BC when Epidamnos and Apollonia were founded. The earliest mention of the Chauci is from 12 BC and suggests that they were assisting other Germanic tribes in a war against the Romans. The earliest mention of the Frisii tells of Drusus' 12 BC war against the Rhine Germans and the Chauci. Divorce was first allowed starting in the first century BC and could be done by either man or woman. Germania Inferior had Roman settlements since around 50 BC and was at first part of Gallia Belgica. Evidence of permanent settlement dates from the 8th millennium BC in the Balkans. Show More Sentences During their 1st century BC Roman military campaign, Caesar's contacts among the Remi stated that the Nervii were the most warlike of the Belgae. It was not until 105 BC that they planned an attack on the Roman Republic itself. The Battle of Sabis took place in 57 BC between the Romans and the Nervians. A similar law was passed in 108 BC and Marius was voted the command by the People in this special election. First the Germans routed Caepio and then destroyed Mallius's army on October 6, 105 BC at Arausio. Darius the Great, king of Persia, crossed the river in the late 6th century BC in order to invade European Scythia and to subdue the Scythians. Polybius was born around 200 BC in Megalopolis, Arcadia, when it was an active member of the Achaean League. Cicero writes in 60 BC of a defeat sustained by the Aedui, perhaps in reference to this battle. Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated. At the later Vicus Turicum, probably in the first 1st century BC or even much earlier, the Celts settled at the Lindenhof Oppidium. While the Teutones and Ambrones were slaughtered in 102 BC by Gaius Marius, the Cimbri and the Tigurini wintered in the Padan plain. Meilan appears to have been founded around 600 BC by the Celtic Insubres, after whom this region of northern Italy was called Insubria. In 550 BC Rome was the second largest city in Italy, with Tarentum being the largest. Their development was halted by the Roman expansion in the Po Valley from the 3rd century BC onwards. In 53 BC the Treveri broke their alliance and attempted to break free of Rome. The Boii, the most powerful and numerous of the Gallic tribes, were expelled by the Romans after 191 BC and settled in Bohemia. Sallust was expelled from the senate in 50 BC on moral grounds, but quickly revived his career by attaching himself to Julius Caesar. But our understanding of the moral and ethical realities of Rome in the 1st century BC would be much weaker if Sallust's works did not survive. From about 200 BC the Roman Republic became increasingly involved in Greek affairs and engaged in a series of wars with Macedon. Macedon's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC signalled the end of Antigonid power in Greece. Show More Sentences The Lion of Amphipolis, erected in 4th BC in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, admiral of Alexander the Great. Tangier was founded in the early 5th century BC by Carthaginian colonists, who were probably the first ones to settle around the coast. Silk fabric from 3630 BC was used as wrapping for the body of a child from a Yangshao culture site in Qingtaicun at Xingyang, Henan. Also around 3000 BC to 1500 BC, women in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization applied red tinted lipstick to their lips for face decoration. Dynastic Egyptians before 2000 BC imported olive oil from Crete, Syria and Canaan and oil was an important item of commerce and wealth. From 30 BC to 117 AD the Roman Empire came to surround the Mediterranean by controlling most of its coasts. The capital city of Tiwanaku dates from as early as 1500 BC when it was a small, agriculturally based village. The next invasion came immediately in 205 BC by a Chola king named Elara, who overthrew Asela and ruled the country for 44 years. Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC first proposed a system of latitude and longitude for a map of the world. By the 2nd century BC Hipparchus was the first to use such a system to uniquely specify places on the earth. The site dates back to about 1000 BC and declined around 400 AD, replaced in importance by San Lorenzo. According to ancient records, the dynasty ended around 1600 BC as a consequence of the Battle of Mingtiao. By the 6th century BC most small states had disappeared from being annexed and just a few large and powerful principalities dominated China. In South America, Peruvian sweet potato remnants dating as far back as 8000 BC have been found. It was most commonly used from about the 1st century BC to the 3rd century, but it probably existed earlier than that. The earliest archaeological traces of civilization have been found on the island of Saipan, dated to 1500 BC or slightly before. By 1500 BC the Lapita culture, descendants of the second wave, would begin to expand and spread into the more remote islands. Between about 2500 BC and 250 AD, the basic institutions of Maya civilisation emerged. Hence the meaning of the term unmarried spouse in BC depends on the legal context. This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah. Show More Sentences Between the 2nd century BC and the 6th century AD, Goa was ruled by the Bhojas of Goa. Praetors were replaced in the 3rd century BC by a laical body of prudentes. Cato made use of the filibuster again in 59 BC in response to a land reform bill sponsored by Caesar, who was then consul. Several Greek papyri of the 3rd to 2nd century BC mention the use of these wheels, but don't give further details. Cast iron was invented in China in the 5th century BC and poured into moulds to make ploughshares and pots as well as weapons and pagodas. This came to be known as Wootz steel, produced in South India by about sixth century BC and exported globally. The Romans used concrete extensively from 300 BC to 476 AD, a span of more than seven hundred years. Historical descriptions of cholera are found as early as the 5th century BC in Sanskrit. From 500 BC Celtic tribes settled in the region and traded with the Mediterranean world. The earliest signs of iron making dates back to 400 BC while industrial scale activities dates back to the 17th century. The Roman expansion brought the defeat of the Allobrogi in 121 BC and during the Gallic Wars in 58 BC Julius Caesar overcame the Helvetii. A disagreement between these two political philosophies came to a head in 223 BC when the Qin state conquered all of China. The river left these paths in 602 BC and shifted completely south of the Shandong Peninsula. The cyclopean walls of the acropolis of Mycenae have been dated to 1350 BC and those of Tiryns slightly earlier. The Arkalochori Axe is a bronze, Minoan, axe from the second millennium BC thought to be used for religious purposes. Artificial lakes dating to the 5th century BC have been found in ancient Greece. The classical authors first mentioning the pass in that or other contexts lived the 1st century BC under the early Roman empire. A stone axe dating from 2500 BC has also been found in the area in the River Douglas in Tigers Clough. The site was thought to have originated from 1500 BC in the Middle Bronze Age. It was not until around 6,000 BC that the approximate geography of Denmark as we know it today had been shaped. Show More Sentences Between 5,000 BC and 4,000 BC the earliest agricultural settlements appeared around the Oslofjord. The period after the collapse of the Akkadian empire about 2200 BC was known even then as the seven generations since the Fall of Akkad. Records show that in 219 BC the emperor visited Langya Mountain on the southeastern Shandong coast. They are vying for the title of Lebanon's break dance champion in this year's Red Bull BC One Lebanon Cypher. The next day, two BC SPCA officers entered the 39th floor of the building and found the puppy in the video in its crate. The final pitted Lockwood against Springwood BC A, with Derek Frost the referee, and they ran out 2-0 winners in a best of three frames match. Egyptian mummies of the 2nd millennium BC show evidence of smallpox, but measles does not leave palaeopathological evidence in human remains. Begun in the fifth century BC it acquired its modern name in the fourth century in honour of the statue of Athena Parthenos which it housed. In fact as far back as 2500 BC there is evidence showing that people used and were familiar with the practice of ear candling. Evidence of chariot burials in England begins about 300 BC and is mostly confined to the Arras culture associated with the Parisii. The Minoans were followed by the Myceneans, who collapsed suddenly around 1200 BC, ushering the European Iron Age. In 508 BC, Cleisthenes instituted the world's first democratic system of government in Athens. The Roman Republic ended in 27 BC, when Augustus proclaimed the Roman Empire. The Amathus sarcophagus, from Amathus, Cyprus, 2nd quarter of the 5th century BC Archaic period, Metropolitan Museum of Art. While British Columbia's major venue is Hastings Racecourse with popular events like the annual BC Derby. Thamud is the name of an ancient civilization in the Hejaz known from the 1st millennium BC to near the time of Muhammad. Incorporated into the Roman Empire in 15 BC, the Inn river formed the border between the Roman provinces of Raetia and Noricum. For various reasons, the 1st century BC was a time of political and military upheaval, which ultimately led to rule by emperors. Towards the end of this era, in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was briefly perpetual dictator before being assassinated. The census of 28 BC uncovered large numbers of men who qualified, and in 14 AD, a thousand equestrians were registered at Cadiz and Padua alone. Show More Sentences Archaeological digs in the area have found flintwork and other artefacts which have been assigned dates from 6000 BC onwards. Hearing of Sulla's death in 78 BC, Caesar felt safe enough to return to Rome. In 63 BC, he ran for election to the post of Pontifex Maximus, chief priest of the Roman state religion. Vercingetorix's attempt in 52 BC to unite them against Roman invasion came too late. In February 44 BC, one month before his assassination, he was appointed dictator for life. As early as the 7th century BC, there existed important port cities of Canopus and Heracleion. It fell to the Persians again in 343 BC after the last native Pharaoh, King Nectanebo II, was defeated in battle. A massive prehistoric stone wall surrounded the ancient temple of Ness of Brodgar 3200 BC in Scotland. By about 3500 BC, hundreds of small farming villages dotted the Indus floodplain. Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and claimed that the Greeks were one of the first groups of foreigners that ever lived in Egypt. However, the warming and drying climate meant that by 5000 BC, the Sahara region was becoming increasingly dry and hostile. Around 3500 BC, due to a tilt in the earth's orbit, the Sahara experienced a period of rapid desertification. It is speculated that by 6000 BC, cattle were domesticated in North Africa. Around 4000 BC, the Saharan climate started to become drier at an exceedingly fast pace. In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late 4th century BC and was given Roman citizenship without voting rights. In 107 BC Marius decided to ignore the census qualification altogether and recruited with no inquiry into the property of the potential soldier. He arrived comparatively late in 107 BC and in that year and the next he forced Jugurtha to the south and west toward Mauretania. Marius' quaestor in 107 BC had been Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the son of a patrician family that had fallen on hard times. In 102 BC the Cimbri returned from Hispania into Gaul and together with the Teutones decided to invade Italy. Show More Sentences Marius' colleague Quintus Lutatius Catulus in 102 BC did not have as much luck. Memmius, assassinated during the magisterial elections for 99 BC, prompting widespread violence to break out. But in 95 BC, Rome passed a decree, the Lex Licinia Mucia, expelling from the city all residents who were not Roman citizens. The coalition's main chance came in 62 BC, when the Greek cities rebelled against Roman rule. It was stormed and taken by the Athenians in 415 BC, and the inhabitants, among them the famous courtesan Lais, sold as slaves. Draught animals were first used about 4,000 BC in the Middle East, increasing agricultural production immeasurably. He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of twenty. During the end of the fourth millennium BC, the southern part of the Persian Gulf was dominated by the Dilmun civilization. Until 1500 BC, eastern coastal areas of the Mediterranean were most heavily cultivated. Here some dozen documents dated 2400 BC describe lands of the king and the queen. The data forming the basis of this search engine can also be downloaded in entirety in the form of a BC Bank Master file and filtered according to individual preferences. Insurance Bureau of Canada encourages all BC homeowners who intend to rent or lend out any part of their premises to contact their insurance representatives to find out if they are properly covered. She's pig ugly, cap'n. I've never seen a more woegeous body shape without a BC Rich logo on it! From the later first millennium BC, foggaras or qanats proliferated in several parts of Fazzan. The new person will start working with CHF BC soon. When you publish an E-Sourcing master agreement to ERP outline agreements, you make changes only in the master agreement, and suppress the changeability of replicated fields in SAP ERP with a BC Set or in Customizing. Description : Exposed root distribution patterns of overstocked Lodgepole Pine, in the vicinity of Fish Lake, east of Prince George, BC. Site is part of Ken Mitchell's root studies. A few of the successes of ISPOT in 2008 include: ISPOT arrested an Unlawfully At Large offender from the Yukon Territory in BC who was also in violation of his recognizance court order. Understanding the viticultural factors which yield the highest concentrations of these compounds will enable BC to produce the highest quality wines and compete in the international market. A major turnabout in this practice came in the closing days of the 2003-04 crop year when CN acquired BC Rail, a regional carrier with operations extending over a 1,419.8-route-mile network in British Columbia. Find more words! 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