Timeline: 725 BC and AD

TIMELINE PROJECT

725 BC

Governance:
1. Bakenranef succeeds his father Tefnakhte as king of the 24th dynasty of Egypt
2. Sparta conquered the neighboring region of Messenia and took over the land.
3. Seige of Samaria began.
4. Spartans turn the Messenians into Helots.
5. Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea.
6. Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel.
7. Babylonia makes itself independent of Assyria, upon the death of Tiglath-Pileser III.
8. Israel is conquered by Assyrian king Sargon II.
9. 722 BC — Spring and Autumn Period of China's history begins as King Zhou ping wang of the Zhou Dynasty reigns in name only.
10. Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Hittites stronghold of Carchemish.

Commerce:
1. Kings of Cyprus thrived under a market economy.

Institutions:
1.Temple at Samos was built in Greece
2.Temple of Athena built between 725 and 700.
3.Theogony, wrotten by Hesiod on the myths of the gods, the origins of things and the order of the universe.
4.Temple of Apollo Archegetes give the city of Naxos prominence in religious affairs.
5.Olmecs built pyramids in 800s BC
6.Homer and the Illiad and the Odyssey.


Technology:
1. Adobe, wood and stone are popular materials for architecture
2. Pottery becomes a popular form of art
3. Houses are of irregular plan and plant churches are long and sometimes narrow or square with a central row of columns.
4. “Daedelic” style- Ancient Crete
5. The diaulos footrace introduced at the Olympics.
6. Chinese record solar eclipse.
7. Demotic writing appears in Ancient Egypt


725 AD

Governance:
1. The Umayyad caliph Yazid ii dies after a 4 year reign and is succeeded by his brother who will reign until 743 as Hisham.
2. The Japanese empress Gensho abdicates in favor of her 23 year old nephe; a son of the late Momu by Fuhito Fujiwara’s daughter Miyako, he will reign until 749 as the emporer Shomu.
3. Greece revolts from the Byzantine rule of Leo III
4. Iconoclasm phase starts.
4. Greek fleet sets out for Constantinople with an anti-emperor but is destroyed by the Byzantine imperial fleet with an incendiary mixture called Greek Fire.
5. The Lombard king Liutprand takes advantage of the rebellion caused by the Iconoclasm controversy in Byzantine, Italy to extend his realm.
6. Siege of Constantinople. The Bulgarians and Byzantines defeated the Arabs. The Bulgarian army slaughtered between 20,000 and 32,00 Arabs.
7. The Battle of Tours ends the menace o a 90,000-man Moorish army that has invaded southern France.
8. Muslim invaders caqpture the walled city of Carcassonne, France.
9. The Anglo-Saxon prince Ethelbald (Aethelbald) ascends the throne of Mercia and gains hegemony over London, Essex, and all of the English Midlands
10. A Syrian army of 80,000 men and a fleet of 1,800 ships lay siege to Constantinople. The Byzantine emperor Theodosius III is deposed after a brief reign and succeeded by a 37-year-old military leader who soundly defeats the Syrians, killing the Umayyad caliph Suleiman.

Commerce:
1.Sugar is planted in Egypt.
2.Moors invading the Iberian Peninsula introduce rice, saffron, and sugar cane.

Institutions:
1.Palenque (Mayan civilizations of palaces and temples) was sacked by the realm of Toniná,
2.Leshan Giant Buddha of Sichuan province, China.
3.Qizu Pagoda built in honor of a Buddhist monk
4.Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) by Yasumaro Ono is the first work of Japanese literature (history).
5.Bede completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He was the author responsible for the popularity of the A.D. system of dates
6.House of Wisdom built under Abbasid dynasty.
7.University of Ez-Zitouna established (oldest teaching establishment in the Arab World)

Technology:
1.The Tang dynasty Buddhist monk, astronomer and mechanical engineer Yi Xing applies the world’s earliest known clockwork escapement mechanism to provide rotating motion to his astronomical armillary sphere.
2.De ratione temporum By the Northumbrian monk-historian Bede, 53, at the monastery of Jarrow uses BC for calendar dates prior to the year in which Jesus was supposedly born.
3.The new emporer Shomu orders that houses of the Japanese nobility be roofed with green tiles, as in china, and have white walls with red roof poles.
4.Greek Fire is used in battle.
5.Bede completed his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. He was the author responsible for the popularity of the A.D. system of dates
6.Chinese eating sticks are introduced.

SOURCES

http://wapedia.mobi/en/730s_BC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_century

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:wgIns9-QrKYJ:www.yeditepe.edu.tr/yeditepe/GetFile.aspx%3Faliaspath%3D%252FYeditepeUniverSiteSi%252Fpdf%252Fhumanities%252FClassical%2BGreece%2Band%2Bthe%2BHelle+725+BC+economy&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=108&gl=us&client=safari

http://www.sistercitiesoflongbeach.org/izmir.htm

www.didimli.com/ancient_sites/metropolis.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720s_BC

www.emdiv.com/br/en/art/encylopedia-of-art/463-arquitetura-grega.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/725