Human History Dates Only - 1000 BCE - 500 BCE

Question 1

What are the Dates only?

MIDDLE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE

End

Answer 1

934 BCE

Question 2

What are the DATES (only):

NEO-ASSYRIAN EMPIRE

Answer 2

911 BCE ( conquests of Babylonia, Persia, Lydia, Phrygians, Israel, Judah, Phoenicia, and Egypt.)

609 BCE: (Defeated at the Fall of Harran by the Babylonians and Medes)

Question 3

What are the DATES (only):

ANCIENT CARTHAGE

start and end only

Answer 3

814 BCE: Phoenician started a colony.

146 BC: completely destroyed by the Rome in the Third Punic War.

Question 4

What are the DATES (only):

ROME (ANCIENT CITY OF ROME)

Founded

Answer 4

753 BCE: Romulus and Remus

Question 5

What are the DATES (only):

THE MAYANS

Date began

Location

Answer 5

c.750 BCE: Began in Guatemala and Belize

Question 6

What are the DATES (only):

HOMER

Answer 6

~700 BCE

Question 7

What are the DATES (only):

CONSTANTINOPLE

began as Byzantium

Answer 7

657 BCE (Colony of the Greeks As Byzantium)

Question 8

What are the DATES (only):

NEBUCHADNEZZAR

dates of his Empire only

Answer 8

620 BCE: his father rebelled from Assyria and founded the Neo-Babylon Empire

539 BCE: conquered by Cyrus the Great

Question 9

What are the DATES (only):

NEO-BABYLONIAN EMPIRE

Answer 9

620 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar’s father rebelled from Assyria

539 BCE: conquered by Cyrus the Great

Question 10

What are the DATES (only):

INVENTION OF COINS

Answer 10

610 BCE

(Lydian Empire)

Question 11

What are the DATES (only):

NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Dates of his reign

Answer 11

605 – 562 BCE, the longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Question 12

What are the DATES (only):

GREEK PUNIC WARS

Answer 12

600–265 BCE

Question 13

What are the DATES (only):

THE BABYLONIAN EXILE OF THE JUDEANS

Answer 13

597 BCE: Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem

539 BCE: Cyrus the Great in captures Babylon, permits exiled Judeans to return to Judah.

Question 14

What are the DATES (only):

Croesus

How long his reign?

Answer 14

Croesus ‘Creesus’ reigned in Lydia for the last 14 years before it was conquered in 546 BCE by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

Question 15

What are the DATES (only):

TORAH - WHEN COMPLETED

Answer 15

597 BCE to 539 BCE

(during the Babylonian Exile) ?

Or after ?

Question 16

What are the DATES (only):

CROESUS

When was his city conquered?

Answer 16

546 BCE

Croesus ‘Creesus’ reigned in Lydia for the last 14 years before it was conquered in 546 BCE by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

Question 17

What are the DATES (only):

TOWER OF BABEL (Etemenanki)

Answer 17

590-560 BCE

Etemenanki (Sumerian: “temple of the foundation of heaven and earth”) was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon, famously rebuilt by rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 18

What are the DATES (only):

CYRUS THE GREAT

Persian uprising vs Media

Answer 18

550 BCE

Question 19

What are the DATES (only):

ACHAEMENID EMPIRE

Answer 19

550 BCE: Cyrus the Great

330 BCE: Fall to Macedonia

Question 20

What are the DATES (only):

IRON AGE ENDS HISTORIOGRAPHY STARTS

Achaemenid Empire (record by Herodotus)

Answer 20

Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BCE (record by Herodotus)

Question 21

What are the DATES (only):

IRON AGE ENDS HISTORIOGRAPHY STARTS

Achaemenid Empire (record by Herodotus)

Central and Western Europe

End of the Germanic Iron Age of Scandinavia

Answer 21

Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BCE (record by Herodotus)

Central and Western Europe: the 1st century BCE (the Roman conquests)

The Germanic Iron Age of Scandinavia: c. CE 800, (the beginning of the Viking Age)

Question 22

What are the DATES (only):

LYDIA

end

Answer 22

546 BCE (Conquered by the Persian king Cyrus the Great)

Question 23

What are the DATES (only):

CYRUS THE GREAT

Conquest of Lydia

Answer 23

546 BCE

Question 24

What are the DATES (only):

CYRUS THE GREAT

Conquest of Babylon

Answer 24

539 BCE

Question 25

# What are the DATES (only): CONQUEST OF CROESUS

Answer 25

546 BCE by Cyrus the Great

Question 26

# What are the DATES (only): ACHAEMENID EMPIRE Conquest of Egypt

Answer 26

525 BCE

Question 27

# What Happened on this Date? 934 BCE

Answer 27

MIDDLE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE End

Question 28

# What happened on this date? 911 BCE

Answer 28

NEO-ASSYRIAN EMPIRE Conquests of Babylonia, Persia, Lydia, Phrygians, Israel, Judah, Phoenicia, and Egypt.

Question 29

# What happened on this date? 814 BCE

Answer 29

ANCIENT CARTHAGE founded as a Phoenician colony.

Question 30

# What happened on this date? 753 BCE

Answer 30

ROME (ANCIENT CITY) Founded by Romulus and Remus

Question 31

# What happened on this date? 750 BCE

Answer 31

THE MAYANS Began in Guatemala and Belize The first Maya cities developed around 750 BCE. By 500 BC these cities possessed monumental architecture, including large temples with elaborate stucco façades.

Question 32

# What happened on this date? ~700 BCE

Answer 32

HOMER

Question 33

# What happened on this date? 657 BCE

Answer 33

CONSTANTINOPLE Founded as a colony of the Greeks as Byzantium

Question 34

# What happened on this date? 620 BCE

Answer 34

Nebuchadnezzar's father Nabopolassar rebelled from Assyria and founded the Neo-Babylon Empire

Question 35

# What happened on this date? 610 BCE

Answer 35

LYDIAN EMPIRE Invention of Coins

Question 36

# What happened on this date? 609 BCE

Answer 36

NEO-ASSYRIAN EMPIRE Defeated at the Fall of Harran by the Babylonians and Medes

Question 37

# What happened on this date? 605 BCE

Answer 37

NEBUCHADNEZZAR The longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Start of his Reign

Question 38

# What happened on this date? 605 – 562 BCE

Answer 38

NEBUCHADNEZZAR Dates of his reign, the longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Question 39

# What happened on this date? 600 BCE

Answer 39

GREEK PUNIC WARS Start

Question 40

# What happened on this date? 600-265 BCE

Answer 40

GREEK PUNIC WARS

Question 41

# What happened on this date? 597 BCE

Answer 41

BABYLONIAN EXILE Judeans Captured and taken to Babylon

Question 42

# What happened on this date? 597 - 539 BCE

Answer 42

BABYLONIAN EXILE Torah Completed there or after

Question 43

# What happened on this date? 597 BCE

Answer 43

Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem THE BABYLONIAN EXILE OF THE JUDEANS

Question 44

# What happened on this date? ~590-560 BCE

Answer 44

TOWER OF BABEL (Etemenanki) Etemenanki (Sumerian: "temple of the foundation of heaven and earth") was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon, famously rebuilt by rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 45

# What happened on this date? 562 BCE

Answer 45

NEBUCHADNEZZAR The longest and most powerful reign of any monarch in the Neo-Babylonian Empire End of his Reign

Question 46

# What happened on this date? 550 BCE

Answer 46

ACHAEMENID EMPIRE CYRUS THE GREAT Persian uprising vs Media IRON AGE ENDS HISTORIOGRAPHY STARTS Achaemenid Empire (record by Herodotus)

Question 47

# What happened on this date? 550 BCE 89-9 BCE 800 CE

Answer 47

IRON AGE ENDS HISTORIOGRAPHY STARTS Achaemenid Empire (record by Herodotus) Central and Western Europe End of the Germanic Iron Age of Scandinavia

Question 48

# What happened on this date? 546 BCE

Answer 48

CYRUS THE GREAT Conquest of Lydia by the Persian king Cyrus the Great CROESUS OF LYDIA Croesus ' Creesus ' reigned in Lydia for the last 14 years before it was conquered in 546 BCE by the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

Question 49

# What Happened on this Date? 546 BCE - 330 BCE

Answer 49

ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE (ANCIENT EMPIRES IN ANATOLIA)

Question 50

# What happened on this date? 539 BCE

Answer 50

THE BABYLONIAN EXILE OF THE JUDEANS Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon (famously bloodless), permits exiled Judeans to return to Judah.

Question 51

# What happened on this date? 525 BCE

Answer 51

ACHAEMENID EMPIRE Conquest of Egypt