What are people's favorite events from this great year?

I know, there's so many to choose from.

I'm afraid I'll leave some out, so I'll go later :)

It sucked when Plato died.

Yeah, tell me about it! And his friend, Eudoxus of Cnidus.

Not a good year for great thinkers, eh?

Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who holds this year in such importance!

Berenice turned 6 this year.

We all know Berenice as the widow of Philip.

Philip of course was one of the officers of Alexander the Great.

Berenice, whose portrait appears with that of Ptolemy on many medals, was the mother by him of Ptolemy II and Arsinoë II

^ :blink:

I have no idea about who any of those people are besides Alexander the Great, and possibly Ptolemy. I also had no idea that 347 B.C. was an important year... :unsure:

^ You've got to be kidding, right ? ? ?

;)

Yes. Very important year indeed. It's a wonder that there hadn't been a topic about this year until a week or so ago! :)

I wish I were... :(

They didn't know it was an important year at the time. It wasn't until someone came up with the whole BC/AD dating system before people started talking about the importance of 347 BC. Before then, they just used to say things like "You remember that year when Plato died?" to which the usual answer was "Of course I don't. It was over three hundred years ago, you stupid moron."

Do I remember this year, of course!

Twas the Year Philip II of Macedonia had a nice lie in; in between Conquering Olynthus in the Chalcidice the year before, and ending the war between the Boeotian cities of Phocis and Thebes the year after, totally booting the Phocians from the Great Amphictyonic League...

Aristotle himself was only 10 year old when his teacher Plato died in this year.

And its also 420 years until I battled the Romans at Masada... I mean... :unsure: :lol:

^ Hahaha!! Madstunts and deloreanCrazy !

I can't believe no one has mentioned that 347 B.C was the 20th year of King Artaxerxes I. Also, Nehemiah was made governor of Jerusalem and allowed to return and rebuild.

*shakes head* And that was such an obvious one as well.

Oooh yeah. I forgot about Nehemiah. I learned about that. Lemme see... Nehemiah was worried about asking the king if he could rebuild them..you know...cause the king could have killed him on the spot just for asking him. You know, Nehemiah was only the king's cupbearer. But the king let him. Lucky Nehemiah. He coulda been dead.

But some stupid people were mad that they were rebuilding it, joking ans saying stuff like "Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall."

Then they decided to go and attack the wall to stop it from bein' finished. Nehemiah and his people heard that, and put up a lot of people to guard the wall and be on the lookout.

And then all the people were getting whiny complaining about stuff of how they had to be always on the lookout and they were hungry and stuff. Nehemiah rebukes them and they stop.

Later, those dudes who were wanting to attack the wall, Sanballat and Tobiah and Gesham and people kept trying to get Nehemiah to come meet them somewhere, saying that they wouldn't hurt him or kill him or anything, but Nehemiah said no, he was too busy.

They kept asking him like four times, and he kept saying the same thing. So they sent a message taht said that they knew what Nehemiah was up to, that he was gonna rebel aginst the government when the walls were done, and try to become king.

But Nehemiah knew they were just making all that stuff up to try to make the peole afraid and stuff.

Some guy says that Nehemiah needs to go into the temple and stay the night, because Sanballat and his guys were gonna come and kill him in the night. But God tells Nehemiah that the dude who told him that was sent by Sanballat, and was trying to get him to the temple so they could kill him. So he didn't go.

And then they finished the walls after otehr stuff happened which I'm too tired to type out because my fingers hurt and I don't want to do any more of it because all of didn't even happen in 341 B.C. probably. Maybe it did. I don't know.

So there you go.

My longest post that I'll probably ever make.

^ Wow! I'm very impressed! Well done.

You would have done Nehemiah 101 in History class too then?

Naw, not in History class. And that's not all from memory. Heck no! I couldn't remember all that.

I think this is the funniest thread on the board.

I'm weird.

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Really? That's...cool.

It being such an important year and all.
I'm surprised at myself for not being able to think of any more things that happened then. Jeez, I need to pay attention in history class.

Lol, I think this topic is brilliantly funny too :D

Cept I think we've ran out of stuff that happened in this year... Shandy, think you can pick us out another date for a new topic? :)

Its cool but the worst time in history haS to be Adam and eve being born :angry:

Whaddya mean? Adam and Eve weren't... born..they were created. And how is that bad? You wouldn't be here. Uh, ;)

^ yeah, they had no belly buttons as the legend goes :)

And they were made from 100% (recyclable) Dirt and brought to live by God blowing up our nose...

Yes, clearly those groups against Evolution have it more logically thought through than people that think we are descended from Apes! :lol: