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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, published in 1987 (vol. 1), 1991 (vol. 2), and 2006 (vol. 3), is a pseudoarchaeological trilogy by Martin Bernal [1] [2] [3] proposing an alternative hypothesis on the origins of ancient Greece and classical civilisation.
Colony and mother city in ancient Greece. 2nd ed. Chicago: Ares. ————. 2001. Collected Papers On Greek Colonization. Leiden: Brill. Hägg, Robin, and Nanno Marinatos, eds. 1984. The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and reality; Proceedings of the third international symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 31 May–5 June 1982.
Ancient Chinese people had contact with the Indo-Greeks. Dayuan (meaning "Great Ionians"), was described in the Chinese historical works of Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han. It is mentioned in the accounts of the famous Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BCE and the numerous embassies that followed him into Central Asia.
Martin Gardiner Bernal (/ b ər ˈ n ɑː l /; 10 March 1937 [1] – 9 June 2013 [2]) was a British scholar of modern Chinese political history.He was a Professor of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.
Udayin, king of Magadha in ancient India. 443 BC. Duke Ligong of Qin, 22nd ruler of the Zhou dynasty; Pindar, Greek poet (b. 522 BC) 442 BC. Zhou zhen ding wang, king of the Zhou dynasty of China; 441 BC. King Zhending of Zhou, 28th king of the Zhou dynasty of China; King Ai of Zhou, 29th king of the Zhou dynasty of China
The excavation works at the ancient city are still going on. 783 BC: Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria. 782 BC: Founding of Erebuni (Էրեբունի) by the orders of King Argishtis I at the site of current-day Yerevan. 782 BC: Death of King Xuan of Zhou, king of the Zhou dynasty of China.
For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.
Although the Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history, the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty, surnamed Ji (Chinese: 姬), lasted only until 771 BC, a period known as the Western Zhou. This period of Chinese history produced what many consider the zenith of Chinese bronze-ware making