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The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The 2nd Temple Period
539BC - 70 AD
539-332 Persian Period
332-165 Greek Period
165-63 Maccabean Period
63BC-70 AD Roman Period
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
538-332
The Persian Period
538 – Cyrus of Persia releases all exiles
520-515 – Temple rebuilt, but smaller
Haggai, Zechariah, 2nd Isaiah
Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The 6th C BC
An Age of Achievement
Zoroaster, Lao Tse, Buddha, Confucius,
Solon of Athens, Aeschylus, Pythagoras
The Jewish Prophets
Xenophanes, Hesiod, Sappho, Aesop
The Hindu Vedas, Ramayana
Mayan Empire
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The 6th C BC
An Age of Achievement
2nd Temple
in Jerusalem
Temple to Zeus in Athens
Temple to Apollo in Corinth
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The 5th
Century
Roman
Expansion under Coriolanus
The Persian
Wars against Greece
(Battles of
Marathon, Thermopylae)
Pericles rules Athens
Socrates and Sophocles
The Acropolis/Parthenon
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
400-350
Socrates – Plato – Aristotle
Rise of Mycenaea
Athenian/Spartan wars
First section of Wall of China
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The Greek Period
362-165
Alexander the Great
Hellenization
Library of Alexandria, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of
Pharos
Division of Empire: Macedonia (Cassander), Thrace (Lysimachus),
Egypt (Ptolemy Soter), Asia (Antigonus)
The Punic Wars
The Septuagint
The Rosetta Stone
Ecclesiastes, Sirach, Daniel ch. 1-6
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The Rise and Fall of Empires
2000-200 BC
http://mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The Maccabean Period
165-63
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Judas Maccabeus
Hasmonean Dynasty
The Old Testament
(Hebrew Scripture)
The Roman Period
63 BC – 70 AD
General Ptolemy
(the Triumvirate: Julius Caesar/Ptolemy/Marcus Antonius)
The Herodians and the Roman Occupation
Essenes, Zealots, Pharisees and Sadducees