No.
Reign.
18
33
19 6
20 6
21
21
B. C.
31
5. THE CHAU Dynasty.
Year of Cycle.
Cotemporary Events.
651|33:07 A canal, between the Nile and the Red
Sea begun by king Neĉho, 610.
61833:40
612
612 33:46
The Phoenicians sail around Africa, 604.
Ezekiel, Solon, Thales, Epimenides, and 60633:52 Æsop flourish about 591.
1 2
14
585 34:13 Jerusalem taken, 587.
23 27 571
34:27 Cyrus begins to reign, 559.
24 25
544
7
25
44
26 7
27 28
28
15
≈ 1 8 20
29 24
30
26
31
7
519
34:54 Babylon taken by Cyrus, 538.
35: 19 Darius Hystaspes chosen king of Persia,
521. The battle of Marathon, 490.
475 36:03
46836:10 Herodotus reads his history to the coun-
cil of Athens, 445.
440 36:38
425 36:51 The history of the Old Testament closes
401
labout 430.
37:17 Cyrus the younger killed, 401. Socrates
put to death, 400.
375 37:43
Plato, Damon, Pythias, flourishes about
32 48 368 37:50 389.
Lycurgus, Eudoxus, Ephorus, Datames,
33 6
59 814 38:44 cles, 317.
320 38:39 flourishes about 354.
34
35 7
255
Sicily and Syracuse usurped by Agatho-
39: 43 Regulus defeated by Xanthippus, 256.
During this dynasty China was still divided into many little princi- palities; at one time, the number of kwah, nations or state, amounted to 125: at another time their number was 41; again there were the keh kwok, a term thought by some an equivalent to United States, as used in America.
Confucius and Mencius, with their disciples, gave lustre and re- nown to this period; and their doctrines have influenced the charac- ter of every succeeding age.