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Lecture 2 West Civ to 1650 (4708 words) |
 | In the second millennium BCE the great empires that dominated Mesopotamia and the Near East were composed mostly of peoples who had not lived in the region a few hundreds of years before. |
| Hammurabi would continue to use diplomacy with skill and cunning in dealing with other lands during the height of his empire; among his innovations was the regular use of diplomatic correspondence and the preservation of a diplomatic archive. |
| But from 1350 to 1200 BCE, the Mycenaeans fell into almost constant internal warfare (the Trojan War is one example), and their cities suffered from several famines, epidemics, fires, and other disasters. |
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Timeline of Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3276 words) |
| 563 BCE: Siddhārtha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, is born in Lumbini, Ancient India. |
| 220 BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, the son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of king Devanampiya-Tissa. |
| By the 1300s this story of Josaphat had become so popular that he was made a Catholic saint. |
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