INTERTESTMENTAL PERIOD

The Bible skips Greek period of Israel’s history, picks back up during the Roman occupation – 4/5 B.C., Interesting that it begins after prophesying the date of the return of the Messiah and then picks back up when that date is fulfilled

 

425 B.C.

Herodotus, the Greek historian, dies

 

424 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Artaxerxes I dies and Darius II begins his rule of the Persian Achaemenid Empire

 

404 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Darius II dies ends his rule

 

400 B.C.

“A number of books from about 400 B.C.) attributed to Hippocrates, the ‘Father of Medicine’) described the symptoms of some common diseases and attributed sickness to diet and other physical causes, rather than to the work of the gods. Although the writings were a beginning, the ancients were still lost when it came to the composition of living things. They believed that all matter was made up of four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Living bodies were thought to be made up of four ‘humors’ –blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm-and all disease supposedly arose from an excess of one of the humors’” (DBB 7)

 

399 B.C.

Socrates dies

 

390 B.C.

The Celts, under their leader Brennos, defeat the Etruscans again and when the Romans come to the aid of the Etruscans, they themselves are defeated; After the Celts win a victory at Allia, the Celtic army pours into Rome itself and the Romans are forced to pay a large ransom to persuade the Celts to withdraw (The Druids, pg. 26)

 

385 B.C.

Aristotle is born in Stagira, Greece

 

377 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, becomes ruler of all Ireland (The Druids, pg. 94)

 

376 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

375 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine” dies in Thessaly, Greece

 

374 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

373 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

372 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

371 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

370 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

369 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

 

368 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland 

   

367 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Ptolemy I Soter is born in Macedonia

 

366 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Celtic mercenaries are being employed by Sparta in their war against Thebes and playing a decisive role; Large groups of Celts are also following the Danube valley, even reaching the Carpathians, and establishing settlements as they go (The Druids, pg. 26)

 

365 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Euclid of Alexandria is born

 

364 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

363 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

362 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

361 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

360 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

359 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

358 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

357 B.C. 

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

356 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Alexander the Great is born to Philip II of Macedon, who seizes gold mines near the colony Krenides and fortifies the wall, drains the nearby marshes, constructs a theater, increases the city’s size and renames it after himself—Philippi (Paul will write a letter to this city in 416 years, in 60 A.D.)

 

355 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

354 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

353 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

352 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

351 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

350 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

A gold choker-necklace is made in Taras (modern day Taranto in Italy) with individual elements produced by hammering thin sheets to shape and add details in wire in the delicate technique of filigree, it had flowers, the heads of what may be different Caesars, or Roman Women? It’s hard to tell (now held in the British Museum, (Collections of the British Museum pg. 31)

 

349 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

348 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

347 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

346 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

345 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

344 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

343 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

342 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

341 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

340 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Aristotle proposes that the earth is not flat, but is actually a sphere, in his book On the Heavens; He is not only a great philosopher, he is the Greeks’ greatest biologist,

“Aristotle realized (unlike almost everyone before him) that knowledge of nature requires systematic observation. Through careful examination he recognized an astounding amount of order within the living world, a crucial first step. Aristotle grouped animals into two general categories—those with blood and those without—that correspond closely to the modern classifications of vertebrate and invertebrate.”

(Darwin's Black Box pg. 7)

 

339 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

338 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

337 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

336 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Darius III begins his rule of the Persian Achaemenid Empire

 

335 B.C.

The Celts have reached the northern borders of Macedonia, and Alexander the Great journeys north to meet the Celtic leaders on the banks of the Danube in order to arrange a peace treaty of equals (The Druids, pg. 26)

 

334 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

333 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

 

332 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, is ruler of all Ireland

Alexander the Great occupies Egypt which brings an end to the Egyptian dynasties, a long line of Greek rulers known as the Ptolemies followed, it was Ptolemy II who asked Manetho (Egyptian priest) to put together a history of Egypt for the library of Alexandria, we do not have any of his original writings, the only source for what he wrote are the statements made by subsequent historians (Unwrapping the Pharaohs pg. 73)

 

331 B.C.

RULERS & ROYALTY: Queen Macha Mong Ruadh (Macha of the Red Hair), daughter of Aed Ruadh, rule of all Ireland ends

 

330 B.C.

Darius III is defeated by Alexander the Great and the Persian Achaemenid Empire ends in Mesopotamia, Hellenistic period begins

Alexander the Great founds the port city of Alexandria in Egypt (Today, Alexandria has a population of 5.2 million people)