Bce in a sentence

The new research shows that magnificent buildings and residences were first built in the 9th–8th centuries BCE, which remained in use continuously until 586 BCE when the city suffered the destruction that ended the Kingdom of Judah.

According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, India had the world's largest economy during 0 BCE and 1000 BCE.

After Nebuchadnezzar was defeated in Battle in 601 BCE by Egypt, Judah revolted against Babylon, culminating in a three-month siege of Jerusalem beginning in late 598 BCE.

After the death of Alexander in 323 BCE, the Partition of Triparadisus assigned Seleucus as satrap of Babylon in 321 BCE.

A large mudflow partly filled convert of the Lewis River valley sometime between 1000 BCE and 500 BCE.

Archaic stage (8000 BCE – 1000 BCE) seeAlso Several thousand years after the first migrations, the first complex civilizations arose as hunter-gatherers settled into semi-agricultural communities.

Archimedes (ca. 287 BCE – ca. 212 BCE), a colorful figure about whom many historical anecdotes are recorded, is remembered along with Euclid as one of the greatest of ancient mathematicians.

Atomist school The first explicitly materialistic system was formed by Leucippus (5th century BCE) and his pupil Democritus of Abdera (460-370 BCE) from Thrace.

Attic began to appear in the inscriptions of Ionia in the 4th century BCE and had displaced Ionian by about 100 BCE.

British Museum The Indo-Scythians were descended from the Sakas (Scythians) who migrated from southern Siberia to Pakistan and Arachosia from the middle of the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century BCE.

Chalcolithic leather shoe; ca. 5.000 BCE Footwear is in use since earliest human history, archeological finds of complete shoes date back to the copper age (ca. 5.000 BCE).

Date The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

Destruction The Selinuntines are again mentioned in 397 BCE when they supported Dionysius during his war with Carthage; Diodorus Siculus xiv. 47 but both the city and territory were again given up to the Carthaginians by the peace of 383 BCE.

Diodorus places it 22 years earlier, or 650 BCE, and Hieronymus still further back in 654 BCE.

Folsom tools were left behind between 9000 BCE and 8000 BCE.

Heraclitus (c. 535 BCE – c. 475 BCE) considered fire to be the most fundamental of all elements.

Historical examples Egypt Censuses in Egypt are said to have been taken during the early Pharaonic period in 3340 BCE and in 3056 BCE.

In 696 BCE and 695 BCE, he sent expeditions into Anatolia, where several vassals had rebelled following the death of Sargon.

It was to survive until the 7th century BCE, by which time it was conquered fully into the Neo Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE).

Mahajanapadas consisted of sixteen oligarchic republics that existed during the sixth centuries BCE to fourth centuries BCE.