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1000 - 800 200 1st settlements on Palatine Hill |
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Kingdom of Alba Longa
1169 - 650 509 |
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Kingdom of Alba Longa
1169 - 650 509 |
^ Numitor Rhea made Vestal Virgin |
Rhea begets Romulus & Remus by Mars |
Numitor captures Remus & identifies Romulus & Remus |
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750 Greek cities founded in Italy.
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Kingdom of Alba Longa
1169 - 650 509 |
675 Alba Longa Amphitheater |
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642 Sublicius Bridge Rome |
628 Temple of Hera Selinunte Founded |
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582 - 80 Juno Temple Agrigento |
550 - 30 Panionium Detail from Vucli |
509 Jupiter Optimus Maximus Temple Rome |
500s Apollo Temple Pompeii |
5 - 400s Hera Temple Campania |
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Etruscan Civilization
800 - 264 536
715 - 674 49 Etruscan civilization dominates region. |
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Etruscan Civilization
800 - 264 536
600 Etruscans built tombs of Cerveteri. |
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Etruscan Civilization
800 - 264 536
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- Cures 26 miles from Rome
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753 Rome founded by Romulus and Remus   |
Senate of 100 Men created who create Patricians |
Rome denied marraige rights by all surrounding towns |
752 Rape of Sabine women by Romans at festival of Neptune   |
751 Sabines (Etruscans) attack Rome, breach gates & fight within Rome. 
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- Rome & Sabines Unite & Kings Romulus & Tacius rule together |
Senate increased from 100 to 200 from Sabines |
Comita Curiada 1st Citizens assembly made |
10 Curiae for Comita Curiada to Appoint & Legislate |
Constitution made with 2 Kings, Patricians & Plebians all making laws |
Legion increased to 6,000 |
Tacius fights & killed by Lavinium & no revenge taken |
730 Romulus creates Calares 300 personal bodyguard   |
753 Rome invades Alba Longa and kills their King  |
740 Rome destroys Caenina  |
750 Three Cavalry Centuries Made |
740 Rome defeats Fidenae  |
735 Rome defeats Veii in Battle & Takes land  |
King dissapears in Cloud while watching troops & standing with Patricians |
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Kingdom of Rome
753 - 509 244
716 Image of God in form of man or beast made Illegal |
716 King disbands 300 personal bodyguard |
715 Temple of Janus built to show peace or war   |
714 Cult of Terminus instigated to peacefully preserve borders |
713 Flamen of Quirinus for Jupiter office Created |
712 Flamen of Quirinus for Mars office Created |
713 Flamen of Quirinus for Romulus office Created |
711 Vestal Virgins moved from Alba Longa to Rome |
710 January & February Created |
709 Pontiff Office Created |
708 8 Priest Offices Created: curiones, flamines, celeres, augurs, vestals, salii, fetials, pontiffs |
707 Spolia Opima Ritual Created |
706 Indigitamenta Lists Created |
705 Occupational Guilds Created: musicians, goldsmiths, carpenters, dyers, shoemakers, skinners, braziers, and potters; and all other handicraftsmen |
651 Rome defeats Alba Longa |
650 Fidenae Revolts from Rome w/ help from Veii & is defeated |
Metius Fufetius dismembered |
650 Rome destroys Alba Longa
- Sins of Rome 1954 |
650 Caelian Mount added to city |
650 Tullii, Servilii, Quintii, Geganii, Curiatii, Cloilii family from Alba Longa enrolled in Senate |
650 Created 10 Troops of horsemen & augmented army |
646 Rome Conqueres Laurentum. Greece. |
645 Battle of Meletiosa Wood  Rome VS Sabines |
643 Battle of Anio River  Rome Vs Sabines |
641 1st Latine War
641 1st Formal Declaration of War 30 day warning |
641 Politorium Conquered & Destroyed |
641 Tellenae Conquered & Destroyed |
640 Ficana Conquered & Destroyed |
640 Medulia Beseiged & Conquered. Citizens moved to Rome. |
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639 Janiculum incorporated into city |
641 Siege of Politorium  |
640 Battle for Silvia Arsia Rome seizes Silva Arsia from Etruscans of Veii  |
638 1st Roman Bridge made Pons Sublicius |
637 1st Prison in Rome |
646 Rome Conqueres Laurentum |
635 Roman Territory extended to sea |
Lucius Tarquinius moves to Rome |
Tarquinius elected in landslide |
Sons of Ancus Marcius go into exile |
616 100 new Senators from younger families created to make 300 |
615 Took Apioli by Storm |
615 Circus Maximus Created |
614 - 10 4 War with Sabines
614 1st Battle with Sabines |
614 Double Centuries to 1,800 in 3 centuries, switched to 6 centuries of 300. |
613 2nd Battle of Feiry Bridge w/ Sabines |
612 Invades Sabines & takes Collatia |
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611 - 06 5 Conqueres Latine Cities 
611 Conqueres Old Feculium |
609 Conqueres Christomeria |
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605 Made Wall around City   |
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Kingdom of Rome
753 - 509 244
Servius Tullius adopted by King as child |
- 600 1st Sewer & Drained Swamps between hills
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583 Statues begin to be made |
King assasinated by plot by Ancus Marcius' sons  |
Temple of Diana to signify Rome as Capital of Latium   |
Daughters of King Tulia marry sons of Tarquinius Priscus Ancus & Aruns |
Two Royal Couples switch after Tulia kills Aruns and Lucius kills his wife & Tulia Marries Lucius |
571 Conquered Veiintians   |
564 Vestal Virgens increased from 2 to 4 |
550 Completes city walls. Defined sacred boundary of Rome. Build Mound & Moats around city |
550 pomerium; first census at Circus Maximus. 80,000 Citizens who could bare arms. 35X2=70 Tribes. |
550 Added Quirinal, Viminal & Esquiline Hills to city |
549 Rome made official Capital of Latium with Temple of Ephesian Diana funded by all cities in Latium |
549 Graduated Tax system created. |
Comita Curiada replaced by Comita Centuriada |
548 Reorganizes Army  
- 1st Class: 100,000lbs+ Copper in property. 80 Centuries, 40 Junior fight on field & 40 Senior defend city. Round Sheild, Greaves, Helmet, Spear, Sword, Mail. Had 2 Centuries of Carpenters w/out arms to work engines of war
- 2nd Class: 75-100,000 lbs - 20 Centuries. No mail, Oblong Sheild.
- 3rd Class 50-75,000 lbs - 20 Centuries. 10 Senior & 10 Junior. No Greaves.
- 4th Class 25-50,000 lbs - 20 Centuries. Only had spear & Javelin
- 5th Class 11-25,000 lbs - 30 Centuries. Slings & Stones. Had 3 Centuries of Trumpeters & Hornblowers
- 6th Class <11,000 lbs - One Century. Except from Service |
548 Reorganized Cavalry
- 1st Class: 12 Centuries Paid 10,000 lbs
- 2nd Class: 6 Centuries. Paid 10,000 lbs |
547 Changed Voting so only knights could vote. If higher classes can't agree they bring in lower classes to break balance. Seldom happened.   |
533 King stops advising with Senate |
509 Overthrow of Etruscan kings and destruction of monarchy by L. Junius Brutus.
515 Gabii Peacefully Annexed   |
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520 Takes Suessa Pometia   |
534 Peace Treaty with Aequi |
514 Seats around Circus Maximus |
525 Princes Aruns & Titus & King's Nephew Brutus go to Delphi to interprete King's dream |
514 Subterranian Sewer Built |
509 Rome takes Ardea of Rutulians |
Political opponents executed without trial |
Council of Latium: Tarquin appears late & it critisized by a man who is framed for treason & executed without trial |
Prince Sextus goes to Colatinus' house for party & rapes his wife Lucretia who commits suicide for shame |
Coup & whole Royal Family banned from Rome |
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1000 Talaiot Megaliths Serbia |
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1100 - 800 300 Dark Age of Greece |
900 BC - AD 100 Delos general |
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Archaic Period of Greece
800 - 500 300 |
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- 900 Dorian migration to Aegean islands, Asia Minor (area around Rhodes), and through Peloponnesus. |
- 884 - 34 50 Homers estimated life   |
- 800 Emergence of Greek city-states, including Athens, Thebes and Megara. |
8 - 600s Chalcis-Negroponte by Giacomo Franco |
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753 Perpetual archonship was limited to 10 years. Started when Alcmaeon died. |
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800 - 700 Aristocratic Republics begin to replace Monarchies |
776 BCE - 393 CE 1169 Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. retrospectively set as first Olympiad. history Olympic Games is believed to reach as far back as 1200's BC.   |
700 Homer's epic poems first set down in writing |
700 Hesiod composes his Theogony, Works and Days, and other poems |
700's 1st Mention of Iberia
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700s BC - 300s AD Olympia
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600s Larissa founded in argos |
685 - 68 17 2nd Messenian War
682 Battle of Great Foss.  Greece. |
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Annual Archons
683 BCE - 275 CE 408 |
- From different political parties. Lasted until 275 AD under Roman Empire and then was subject to Byzantium followed by Ottomans.
600 Chaeronea-Lion of Chaerone in Boatian League |
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626 Suggestion Earth is Round by Thales, 1st of 7 sages of Greece |
668 Pyramid of Hellinikon Tomb of Argives |
650 Thasos-Alyki Quarries City Founded |
600s - 318 Ancient Olynthos Chalkidiki |
600s Sicyon Theatre Gains Independence Sikyon |
600s Samothrace Temple Complex Samothraki Hieron |
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Kingdom of Athens
1556 - 508 1548
595 - 85 10 1st Sacred War between Amphictyonic League of Delphi and city of Kirrha. |
594 Solon became Athens' chief magistrate. He established Council of 400 and made other legal reforms designed to give citizens more voice. |
585 Thales Founder of school of philosophy in Miletus, is first to present a rational explanation of cosmos (namely, that all things are made of moisture). |
573 - 235 Nemean games Nemea |
612 - 570 42 Sappho famous female lyric poet from isle of Lesbos. |
566 Panathenaic festivals Established |
620 - 564 56 Aesop   |
552 Temple of Diana built at Ephesus. |
600 - 550 Maroneia Ancient Theater Marwneia Rhodope Greece panoramic |
fl 549 Thespis Greek poet and tragedian.   |
546 Persian invasion and conquest of Greek territories through out Asia Minor. |
536 Pythagoras discovered forty-seventh problem, multiplication table and suggested ideas of which Copernican system was full development.   |
534 According to tradition, Thespis becomes first actor by reciting poetry as characters in poem. |
530 Pythagoras Mathematician and philosopher, and his followers found city of Croton. Their community is based on philosophy, literature, and political activity. |
547 - 27 20 Pisistratus ruler of Athens. He establishes festivals, builds temples and fountains, and encourages growth of olives for export.
544 1st Public Library at Athens collected poems of Homer, by Pisistratus   |
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525 Greek Drama begins to grow out of Dionysian festivals, especially with plays of Aeschylus.   |
510s Thebes Boeotia fights Athens for 1stX |
510 Athens drove out tyrant Hippias, ^ Pisistratus supported by Cleomenes I, King of Sparta and his forces . Cleisthenes and Isagoras struggle for power. |
508 Cleisthenes flees Athens as Spartan troops approach to assist Isagoras, and Isagoras becomes ruler of Athens. |
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Democracy of Athens
508 - 86 422
6 - 300s Gortyn Law Code Gortyn Louvre |
500s - 167 Necromanteion-Basement of Necromanteion Periander consultion to Destruction by Romans |
500s Paleopolis founded, Andros |
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Kingdom of Sparta
1490 - 146 1344
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Kingdom of Sparta
1490 - 146 1344
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Kingdom of Sparta
1490 - 146 1344
740 1st Messenian War between Messenia and Sparta |
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Kingdom of Sparta
1490 - 146 1344 |
669 Argos defeats Sparta for last time, this time using a Phalanx, at battle of Hysiae. |
650 Sparta was reorganized by Lycurgus, who made aristocratic city into an oligarchy based on warfare. |
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Kingdom of Sparta
1490 - 146 1344
560 - 20 40 Anaxandridas 2 |
560 Tegea Conquered by Sparta |
546 Battle of 300. |
500 Sparta dominated Peloponnese region of southern Greece |
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