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East Versus West<\/h1>\n

Persia Versus West<\/h2>\n

Under Construction<\/p>\n

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[Video Introduction of Session]<\/p>\n

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Outline<\/h4>\n

Course<\/a> Big Civilization<\/p>\n

Session 4 Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Topic 1<\/a> Persia
\nTopic 2<\/a> Greece
\nTopic 3<\/a> The Roman Empire
\nTopic 4<\/a> The Byzantine Empire
\nTopic 5<\/a> The Muslims<\/p>\n

Other Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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YEAR<\/th>\nEVENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
652<\/td>\nPersia: Achaemenid Dynasty Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
626<\/td>\nBabylon: Revolts Against Assyria; 2nd Empire Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
612<\/td>\nNineveh: Assyrian Empire Destroyed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
605<\/td>\nSyria: Battle of Carchemish: Babylon Defeats Egypt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
600<\/td>\nBabylon: Nebuchadnezzar Builds the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
586<\/td>\nJerusalem: Babylonians Capture City; Jews Forced Out<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
585<\/td>\nGreece: May 28 Solar Eclipse Predicted by Thales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
546<\/td>\nLevant: Conquered by Persians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
540<\/td>\nSamos: Pythagoras Lived<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
540<\/td>\nTurkey: Greek Cities on West Coast Conquered by Persians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
539<\/td>\nBabylon: Conquered by Persians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
525<\/td>\nEgypt: Conquered by Persians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
516<\/td>\nIndia: Persians Occupy Punjab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
515<\/td>\nJerusalem: 2nd Temple Constructed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
499<\/td>\nGreece: War Versus Persia Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
490<\/td>\nGreece: Battle of Marathon Stops Persian Invasion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
486<\/td>\nChina: First Part of Grand Canal Completed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
480<\/td>\nIndia: First Buddhist Council Meets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
475<\/td>\nChina: Warring States Period Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
457<\/td>\nAthens: Pericles Inaugurates Golden Age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
450<\/td>\nSalamis Strait: Greek Fleet Repels Persian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
449<\/td>\nCallias: Peace Treaty End Greek-Persian Wars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
449<\/td>\nGreece: Herodotus Completes His History<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
440<\/td>\nAthens: Democritus Proposes Existence of Atoms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
438<\/td>\nAthens: Parthenon Completed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
431<\/td>\nGreece: Peloponnesian War Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
430<\/td>\nAthens: Sophocles Writes Oedipus Rex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
420<\/td>\nAthens: Alcibiades Made General<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
404<\/td>\nAthens: Athens Looses Peloponnesian War to Sparta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
400<\/td>\nEgypt: Successfully Revolts Against Persians<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
399<\/td>\nAthens: Socrates Sentenced to Death<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
385<\/td>\nAthens: Plato Founds Academy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
338<\/td>\nChaeronea: After the battle here, Philip, King of Macedonia Takes Control of Greece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
334<\/td>\nTurkey: Alexander the Great Invades Persian Territory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
332<\/td>\nTyre: Alexander Captures City After Lengthy Siege<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
331<\/td>\nNorthern Iraq: Alexander Wins the Battle of Gaugamela<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
323<\/td>\nBabylon: Alexander’s Empire Partitioned Among His Top Generals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
307<\/td>\nAlexandria: Ptolemy Founds the Great Library<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
221<\/td>\nChina: Qin Shi Huang Establishes Chinese Empire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
YEAR<\/th>\nEVENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n

Concepts<\/h1>\n