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Useful Dates for the Final Exam from Ms. Stevens
toc What makes these dates useful is that they provide “mile markers” with which to get oriented. These particular ones are especially helpful for crossing over between cultures. The dates switch from BCE to CE at the break, and some are approximate. As usual, I will not ask you to recall specific dates, only to determine the relative sequence of events. I do not expect (or even want) you to memorize all of these, but I do expect you to have a clear sense of the sequence.

2050 Start of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt 1792 Hammurabi establishes the Babylonian Empire 1550 Start of the New Kingdom in Egypt 1200 Sea People defeat Hittites 1046 Western Zhou replaces Shang Dynasty 770 Start of Spring and Autumn Period (Eastern Zhou) 753 Traditional date for the founding of Rome 750 Start of the Archaic Period in Greece 612 New Babylonians defeat Assyrians 539 Cyrus defeats the New Babylonians 509 Start of the Roman Republic 501 Democracy in Athens 480 Start of the Warring States Period AND Battle of Thermopylae 338 Philip II of Macedon defeats Greece 330 Alexander defeats Persia 264 Punic Wars begin 221 Start of the Qin Dynasty (only 15 years long) 146 Carthage destroyed by Rome (3rd Punic War) AND Greece falls to Rome 100 Marius is consul 82 Sulla is dictator 44 Caesar assassinated 27 Roman Empire begins

69 Year of the Four Emperors 180 Marcus Aurelius dies 220 Fall of the Han Dynasty 312 Constantine converts to Christianity 476 Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus 565 Death of Justinian 1453 Byzantine Empire falls to the Ottoman Turks

Start and End Dates from Ms. Stevens
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 * **Culture** || **Start** || **End** ||
 * Old Kingdom || 2700 BCE || 2200 BCE ||
 * Middle Kingdom || 2050 BCE || 1652 BCE ||
 * New Kingdom || 1567 BCE || 1085 BCE ||
 * Minoans || 2800 BCE || 1450 BCE ||
 * Mycenaeans || 1600 BCE || 1100 BCE ||
 * Shang || 1500 BCE || 1046 BCE ||
 * Western Zhou || 1046 BCE || 777 BCE ||
 * Eastern Zhou: S & A || 770 BCE || 481 BCE ||
 * Eastern Zhou: WS || 480 BCE || 222 BCE ||
 * Qin || 221 BCE || 206 BCE ||
 * Han || 206 BCE || 220 CE ||
 * Assyria || 1100 BCE || 612 BCE ||
 * New Babylonians || 612 BCE || 539 BCE ||
 * Archaic Greece || 750 BCE || 500 BCE ||
 * Classical Greece || 500 BCE || 338 BCE ||
 * Persia || 559 BCE || 330 BCE ||
 * Alexander's Empire || 338 BCE || 323 BCE ||
 * Hellenistic Kingdoms || 323 BCE || 30 BCE ||
 * Rome: Monarchy || 753 BCE || 509 BCE ||
 * Rome: Republic || 509 BCE || 31 BCE ||
 * Rome: Empire || 27 BCE || 476 CE ||

Helpful Hints for the FALL Exam
//Please be advised that these won't all work for the Spring Exam.//
 * 1) The Old and Middle Kingdoms come before everything else on our timeline.
 * 2) The Han Dynasty is after everything else on our timeline.
 * 3) The Shang Dynasty lines up with the New Kingdom.
 * 4) The New Babylonians fall during the Spring and Autumn Period.
 * 5) The Battle of Thermopylae lines up with the start of the Warring States Period.
 * 6) The Sea Peoples arrived c. 1200 BCE, which totally changes the map of the Ancient Near East.

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