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The 2nd Temple Period539BC - 70 AD

539-332 Persian Period 332-165 Greek Period

165-63 Maccabean Period 63BC-70 AD Roman Period

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538-332The Persian Period

538 – Cyrus of Persia releases all exiles520-515 – Temple rebuilt, but smaller

Haggai, Zechariah, 2nd IsaiahChronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah

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The 6th C BCAn 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

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The 6th C BCAn 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

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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 GreatHellenization

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

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The Rise and Fall of Empires2000-200 BC

http://mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

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The Maccabean Period165-63

Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Judas Maccabeus

Hasmonean Dynasty

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The Roman Period63 BC – 70 AD

General Ptolemy (the Triumvirate: Julius Caesar/Ptolemy/Marcus Antonius)

The Herodians and the Roman Occupation

Essenes, Zealots, Pharisees and Sadducees