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Ancient history
The study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, starting with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.
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Peace of Acilisene
History; Ancient history
( 387) Divided Armenia between the East Roman Empire and the Persian Empire.
First Macedonian War
History; Ancient Greece
The First Macedonian War (214 BC – 205 BC) was fought by Philip V of Macedon against , Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, contemporaneously with the ...
Battle of Ipsus
History; Ancient Greece
The Battle of Ipsus was a battle of the Fourth War Of The Diadochi between some of the Diadochi in 301 BC near the village of that name in Phrygia. Antigonus I Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius I ...
Battle of Salamis (306 BC)
History; Ancient Greece
The naval Battle of Salamis was part of the Forth War Of The Diadochi. It took place in 306 BC near Salamis, Cyprus between the fleets of Ptolemy I of Egypt and Demetrius. The battle was a complete ...
Siege of Rhodes
History; Ancient Greece
The Siege of Rhodes (305 BC/304 BC) was part of the Fourth War of the Diadochi and one of the most notable sieges of antiquity, when Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an ...
Battle of Corupedium
History; Ancient Greece
The Battle of Corupedium,was a battle in 281 BC between the armies of Lysimachus, ruler of Thrace and Macedon; and Seleucus I Nicator, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, including lands currently covered ...
Battle of Gabiene
History; Ancient Greece
Battle of Gabiene (316 BC) was battle between Antigonus and Eumenes in the Second War of the Diadochi near in the winter of 316 BC. During the early years of warfare between the Diadochi, Antigonus ...
