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Sentence Examples You, and millions like you, may have recently discovered meditation, an age-old practice dating back to the 1st millenium bce. There survives the famous first century bce Celtic calendar which, as soon as it was first discovered in 1897, was seen to have parallels to Vedic calendrical computations. Proponents of this solution point to Aristarchus' athetesis of line 92, a verse that is also missing in papyrus 12, a mid-third-century BCE text. Dating to the 8th century BCE, it was found in the Jordanian village of Deir Alla, which was Moabite territory in biblical times. Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society. Antisthenes was born in Athens about 440 BCE. of a Phrygian or Thracian mother, and thus was only a half citizen. But, around 1100 BCE, the Mycenaeans were invaded by barbarians called Dorians and all their advances disappeared. Some time in the second millennium BCE the Aryan people arrived in north-west India. The Colossus was built by Chares of Lindus in 280 BCE to celebrate the Rhodian victory over the Macedonians and to thank the god Helios for protecting them. In 50 BCE the Batavians came to what is now know as The Netherlands. Starting around 575 BCE, as a way of pacifying the northern kingdom, Tiglathpileser takes over the lands belonging to the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali, and exiles them. Neolithic humans lived in the caves pocking its slopes, and by around 1400 BCE a fortified palace was built atop the acropolis. The tablet itself was dated to the fifteenth to fourteenth century BCE and was the first undisputed paleographic monument of its kind found in Thrace. During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor. The last chapter offers an analysis of a single canonical work of art of the thirteenth century BCE, the altar of Tukulti Ninurta I found at Assur. After 1100 BCE the Vedic tribes moved into the western Ganges Plain, adapting an agrarical lifestyle. The 9th and 8th centuries BCE witnessed the composition of the earliest Upanishads with such ideas. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. Around 7000 BCE, the first known Neolithic settlements appeared on the subcontinent in Mehrgarh and other sites in western Pakistan. Politically, by the 3rd century BCE, the kingdom of Magadha had annexed or reduced other states to emerge as the Mauryan Empire. Show More Sentences The earliest literary writings in India, composed between 1700 BCE and 1200 CE, were in the Sanskrit language. In China, merchants around 2000 BCE would hide their wealth from rulers who would simply take it from them and banish them. By about 1200 BCE, the Vedic culture and agrarian lifestyle was established in the northwest and northern Gangetic plain of South Asia. The Theravada school spread south from India in the 3rd century BCE, to Sri Lanka, later to Southeast Asia. Buddhism, by the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE, was prominent in the Himalayan region, Gandhara, Hindu Kush region and Bactria. The earliest records in Old Tamil are short inscriptions from between the 5th and 2nd century BCE in caves and on pottery. Seamus King's book A History of Hurling references oral history going back as far as 1200 BCE of the game being played in Tara, County Meath. The domesticated bottle gourd reached the Americas from Asia by 8000 BCE, most likely due to the migration of peoples from Asia to America. In the 3rd century BCE, Greek art taken as booty from wars became popular, and many Roman homes were decorated with landscapes by Greek artists. It is thought that by about the 6th century BCE most of the inhabitants of the isles of Ireland and Britain were speaking Celtic languages. Like other kinds of Celtic art, Irish art from about 300 BCE is part of the wider style, which developed in west central Europe. La Tene was developed between the 5th and 4th century BCE, and is more popularly known as early Celtic art. In Aristotle's time, the 4th century BCE, whales were regarded as fish due to their superficial similarity. The earliest written script on cuneiform clay tablets, dating to around 3,300 BCE, has been excavated in Uruk and Susa. For me, the white marble Cycladic heads of the third millennium BCE, with their long, prominent triangular noses, immediately come to mind. A combined force of Cimbri and Teutoni squared off against additional armies from Rome in 109 and 105 BCE, vanquishing them in the process. Their further incursions into Roman Italy were thrust back in 101 BCE at Vercellae by the Roman army. In Europe, the Etruscans were making bronze mirrors in the sixth century BCE, and Greek and Roman mirrors followed the same pattern. While the Babylonians used primitive seed drills around 1500 BCE, the invention never reached Europe. After the fall of Phoenicia in 332 BCE, the area came under the control of Carthage, a former Phoenician colony. Show More Sentences An indigenous currency of silver punched marked coins dating between 600 BCE and 400 BCE has been found at the site. The recorded history of art in Bangladesh can be traced to the 3rd century BCE, when terracotta sculptures were made in the region. The oldest bog body that has been identified is the Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. As early as 132 BCE references suggest that the Ketuvim was starting to take shape, although it lacked a formal title. The data indicate that this event occurred not earlier than the last third of the 10th century BCE and most probably during this time. From the 2nd millennium BCE, nephrite jade was being traded from mines in the region of Yarkand and Khotan to China. Some remnants of what was probably Chinese silk dating from 1070 BCE have been found in Ancient Egypt. The route was defined around the 1st century BCE when Han Wudi put an end to harassment by nomadic tribes. By 1000 BCE, medical systems based upon herbs could be found in China, Korea, and India. At around 2000 BCE, Ancient China began the use of incense in the religious sense, namely for worship. The oldest extant Chinese maps come from the State of Qin, dated back to the 4th century BCE, during the Warring States period. The Anuradhapura Kingdom was established in 380 BCE during the reign of Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura. Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka in the 2nd century BCE by Venerable Mahinda. For example, the earliest confirmed description of Gangaridai appears in the writings of the 1st century BCE writer Diodorus. By 300 BCE, this culture was eclipsed by other emerging civilizations in Mesoamerica. When the pyramid was originally built in 300 BCE, there were insects painted in black, red, and yellow on it. Roman objects, dating from the period 27 BCE to 37 CE, have been excavated in sites as far afield as the Kushan and Indus ports. Around 1000 BCE, Bantu migrants had reached the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa. Halfway through the first millennium BCE, the Bantu had also settled as far south as what is now Angola. This civilisation collapsed at the start of the second millennium BCE and was later followed by the Iron Age Vedic Civilisation. Show More Sentences From the 3rd century BCE onwards Prakrit and Pali literature in the north and the Tamil Sangam literature in southern India started to flourish. Wootz steel originated in south India in the 3rd century BCE and was exported to foreign countries. Also, the Sangam literature flourished from the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE in southern India. The territory of the empire covered large parts of India from the 1st century BCE onward. The Neolithic saw the Agricultural Revolution begin, between 8000 and 5000 BCE, in the Near East's Fertile Crescent. The Neolithic Revolution, beginning around 10,000 BCE, saw the development of agriculture, which fundamentally changed the human lifestyle. In the Indus Valley, crops were cultivated by 6000 BCE, along with domesticated cattle. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, is first known from about 2500 BCE, but did not become widely used until much later. In Crete the Minoan civilization had entered the Bronze Age by 2700 BCE and is regarded as the first civilization in Europe. From around 550 BCE, many independent kingdoms and republics known as the Mahajanapadas were established across the subcontinent. The millennium from 500 BCE to 500 CE saw a series of empires of unprecedented size develop. Beginning in the 3rd century BCE, the Roman Republic began expanding its territory through conquest and alliances. Cereal crops were first domesticated around 9000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East. In 327 BCE, Alexander the Great was rewarded by the defeated King Porus, not with gold or silver but with 30 pounds of steel. The oldest known archaeological fragments of the immediate precursor to modern paper, date to the 2nd century BCE in China. In the third and late fourth millennia BCE, the whole of Flanders shows relatively little evidence of human habitation. One Edict of Asoka, who reigned from circa 269 BCE to 232 BCE, commemorates the Emperor's pilgrimage to the Buddha's birthplace in Lumbini. It first began to appear around 2700 BCE before disappearing in 539 BCE, when it was succeeded by the Achaemenid Empire. Purchased by the city of Knidos in the mid-4th century BCE, the sculpture served as a cult statue in the Temple of Aphrodite Euploia. The arrival of the Corded Ware culture in southern coastal Finland between 3000 and 2500 BCE may have coincided with the start of agriculture. Show More Sentences Populations began to rise after 3500 BCE, with further dips and rises occurring between 3000 and 2500 BCE but varying in date between regions. In Aristotle's time, the 4th century BCE, porpoises were regarded as fish due to their superficial similarity. Smoking can be dated to as early as 5000 BCE, and has been recorded in many different cultures across the world. The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BCE in shamanistic rituals. Rome annexed the area in 51 BCE, which held the region until 486, when the Germanic Franks conquered the region and formed the Kingdom of France. Organized caravans, visible by the 2nd millennium BCE, could carry goods across a large distance as fodder was mostly available along the way. It was imported to Egypt as early as 2000 BCE, but those who report it had come from China confuse it with cassia. According to the book of Ezra, the Persian Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE, the year after he captured Babylon. By the 5th century BCE, Aramaic, a closely related tongue, joined Hebrew as the spoken language in Judea. Eudoxus of Cnidus, also in the 5th century BCE, also found that the area of a disk is proportional to its radius squared. Phoenicians of the late 3rd millennium BCE may have entered the area, but no settlements resulted. In the 2nd or 1st century BCE, Eudoxus of Cyzicus was the first Greek to cross the Indian Ocean. The transition out of the Stone Age occurred between 6000 BCE and 2500 BCE for much of humanity living in North Africa and Eurasia. Agriculture had arrived in southern Britain by 4000 BCE, and with it a neolithic culture. Some deforestation took place at that time, although during the Bronze Age, beginning in 2200 BCE, this became more widespread and systematic. Hillforts largely declined in importance in the second half of the second century BCE, with many being abandoned. Julius Caesar invaded southeastern England briefly in 55 and again in 54 BCE, but he never reached Hampshire. The BCE recognises that in a few cases there may be exceptional and compelling circumstances. By 6000 BCE predynastic Egyptians in the southwestern corner of Egypt were herding cattle and constructing large buildings. During the 6th millennium BCE, the climate of Scandinavia was generally warmer and more humid than today. Show More Sentences During the 4th millennium BCE, the Funnelbeaker culture expanded into Sweden up to Uppland. Between 11 BCE and 4 CE, the hostility and suspicion between the Germanic tribes deepened. He settled around 95 BCE in Rhodes, a maritime state which had a reputation for scientific research, and became a citizen. Caesar's forces clashed with an alliance of Belgic tribes in 57 BCE in the Battle of the Sabis. However, their loyalties began to change in 54 BCE under the influence of Cingetorix' rival Indutiomarus. In 30 BCE, a revolt of the Treveri was suppressed by Marcus Nonius Gallus, and the Titelberg was occupied by a garrison of the Roman army. The oldest known bog body is the skeleton of Koelbjerg Man from Denmark, who has been dated to 8000 BCE, during the Mesolithic period. The oldest fleshed bog body is that of Cashel Man, who dates to 2000 BCE during the Bronze Age. In 58 BCE, at the Battle of Bibracte, Julius Caesar defeated the Alpine tribes, therefore bringing the region under close control of the Roman Empire. Much of the Treveran countryside seems to have been organized into rural settlements by the end of the 2nd century BCE, and this organization persisted into Roman times. They arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE, and as they spread through the archipelago, confined the indigenous Melanesian peoples to the far eastern regions. The Beaker culture originated around 2800 BCE in the Iberian Peninsula and subsequently extended into Central Europe, where it partly coexisted with the Corded Ware region. During the Gallic Wars of 58 to 51 BCE, the Roman army, led by Julius Caesar, conquered the many tribal chiefdoms of Gaul, and annexed it as a part of the Roman Empire. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War. The solution chosen by a la mode and BCE Emergis, a provider of eMortgage solutions, involved the implementation of a custom plugin for a la mode's Mercury Desktop ers. It comes from the 18th or 19th centuries BCE, and may also be moulded. Developed between 600 BCE and 300 CE in South India, the Sangam literature, consisting of 2,381 poems, is regarded as a predecessor of Tamil literature. Navigation was known in Sumer between the 4th and the 3rd millennium BCE, and was probably known by the Indians and the Chinese people before the Sumerians. Around 3900 BCE, agriculture was introduced to Denmark, either through cultural exchange or by migrating farmers, marking the beginning of the Neolithic in the region. Caesar reports in the Bellum Gallicum that in 57 BCE, the Gauls on the Atlantic coast, including the Veneti, were forced to submit to Caesar's authority as governor. Show More Sentences It emulates Virgil's Eclogues of the first century BCE and the Eclogues of Mantuan by Baptista Mantuanus, a late medieval, early renaissance poet. The Swimming Reindeer of about 11,000 BCE is among the finest Magdalenian carvings in bone or antler of animals in the art of the Upper Paleolithic. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. The subsequent migration of the Inuit into the neoarctic around 3500 BCE completed what is generally regarded as the settlement by the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The Wuhuan are of the direct Donghu royal line and the New Book of Tang says that in 209 BCE, Modu Chanyu defeated the Wuhuan instead of using the word Donghu. The Arthashastra, dating from the 400 BC, and the Manusmriti from 100 BCE were influential treatises in India, texts that were considered authoritative legal guidance. This suggestion was generally disregarded but a 2009 study claimed to have found carbonized remains that date to 2000 BCE and appear like seeds of custard apple. The Han dynasty expanded Central Asian sections of the trade routes around 114 BCE, largely through missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy, Zhang Qian. Very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards. The Poverty Point culture may have reached its peak around 1500 BCE, making it the first complex culture, and possibly the first tribal culture in North America. Late in the 2nd century BCE, Roman sources recount the migrating Germanic people of Gaul, Italy and Hispania who invaded areas considered part of Imperial Rome. The spice trade developed throughout South Asia and Middle East by at least 2000 BCE with cinnamon and black pepper, and in East Asia with herbs and pepper. Increasing urbanisation of India in 7th and 6th centuries BCE led to the rise of new ascetic or shramana movements which challenged the orthodoxy of rituals. Within India, archeological and textual evidence such as the 2nd century BCE Heliodorus pillar suggest that Greeks and other foreigners converted to Hinduism. By 3400 BCE, the Sahara was as dry as it is today, due to reduced precipitation and higher temperatures resulting from a shift in the Earth's orbit. The oldest surviving world maps are from 9th century BCE Babylonia. The Arthashastra, dating from 400 BCE and the Manusmriti, from 100 CE, were influential treatises in India, texts that were considered authoritative legal guidance. The growth of the city of Aoudaghost, founded in the 5th century BCE, was stimulated by its position at the southern end of a trans Saharan trade route. Composed, expanded and redacted between the 2nd century BCE and 3rd century CE, the Arthashastra was influential until the 12th century, when it disappeared. The Greeks settled in the Maltese islands since circa 700 BCE, as testified by several architectural remains, and remained throughout the Roman dominium. Show More Sentences In 54 BCE, Caesar's forces were still in Belgic territory, having just returned from their second expedition to Britain, and needed to be wintered. The Treveri or Treviri were a Belgic tribe who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle from around 150 BCE, if not earlier, until their displacement by the Franks. This broad difference in approach led to a major schism among Buddhist monastics in about the 4th century BCE, creating the Early Buddhist Schools. In the 2,540 years from 595 BCE to 1946 CE, the Yellow River has been reckoned to have flooded 1,593 times, shifting its course 26 times noticeably and nine times severely. Following the reorganisation of the Roman provinces in Germany in 16 BCE, Augustus decided that the Treveri should become part of the province of Belgica. Examples from Classical Literature Confucius expressed the philosophy on which this religion is based on sayings and dialogues during the 6th-5th century bce. Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE after the routing of Syrian-Greek occupiers by a ragtag military force led by Judah Maccabee. Find more words! 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