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Kwundaar launched a bid to reconquer Traken. He engineered an illness for Nyssa, knowing the fifth Doctor would seek out Shayla, the greatest physician in Trakenite history. Kwundaar then implanted a psychic command in the Doctor’s mind, getting the Doctor to deactivate Traken’s defences. Kwundaar’s forces consequently invaded the planet, but the Doctor tricked Kwundaar and harnessed the Source’s power for himself. The Doctor thus became the first Keeper of Traken. He reactivated the defences, which destroyed Kwundaar, then abdicated. Shayla became the second Keeper.

The Baroks were humanoids with heads like those of goats. They were an advanced species who, each hunting season, would turn into wild, ferocious cannibals. They finally developed a ritual to siphon away their bloodlust - each tribe of Baroks would nominate a “scapegoat” into whom they could project their violent tendencies. The scapegoat would be driven into the wilderness, enabling the tribe to refrain from tearing itself apart. When a “cosmic” catastrophe befell the Barok homeworld, the surviving tribes dispersed throughout the galaxy.
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A spaceship containing some Hervoken crashed to Earth in what would become New England in America. In the millennia to come, the ship psychically influenced people to build the town of Blackwood Falls over it.
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The Shaydargen were a race of space pioneers. One of their spaceships crashed in Snowdonia, Wales, where the ten surviving crewmembers lived out their natural lives. Their craft remained buried in a mountain as the crew died off, and an empathic artificial entity created to meet their needs went dormant.
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Three parasitic Gorgons arrived on Earth through a portal, and inspired the legends of Medusa and her sisters in Greek mythology. They took human hosts - one of them was killed, and a sisterhood devoted to Demeter protected the remaining two. The Gorgons lost the talisman that would re-open the portal.
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On the planet Avalon, a technologically advanced race created a system that focused solar energy to deflect the large number of asteroids in their system away from their world. They also built thought-operated nanobots that allowed them to affect matter and energy. This discovery prolonged the race’s existence but made their lives futile. They drained the machines of energy, but it was too late. Their civilisation fell, and the natives regressed to being reptilian cephlies, lacking all ingenuity.
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The Doctor met the Queen of Sheba.
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The cybernetic organism Horath ruled the Dark Empire, a period of tyrannical galactic rule. Horath crushed many civilisations, but was finally banished to another dimension. A portal leading to Horath was sealed below the standing stones in the village of Whitebarrow.
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Evidence found by Professor Horner in the twentieth century suggested that pagan rituals took place at Devil’s Hump at around 800 BC.
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The Doctor met the Jonah of legend - a confirmed vegan with white and wrinkled skin.
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The Bodach attempted to send humanity permanently to sleep and feast on its dreams, but the plan failed. The crystals the Bodach needed - the Eyes of Oblivion - were set on an obelisk that ended up buried outside London.
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Around 600 BC, a Nimon scout arrived on Earth and was killed by his own sword by Mithras, who was later worshipped throughout the known world as a result of his deed.
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570 BC - Benny: Walking to Babylon
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Benny pursued two Worldsphere rogues (!Ci!ci-tel and WiRgo!xu) and their drone (I!qu-!qu-tala) down a time corridor to ancient Babylon, and met a linguist, John Lafayette, who had fallen down the corridor from 1901. I!qu-!qu-tala curtailed the rogues’ goal of triggering war between the People and the Time Lords, and terminated the corridor after sending Benny home. !Ci!ci-tel was killed, but WiRgo!xu and I!qu-!qu-tala travelled across the world with the Babylonian priestess Ninan. The Time Lords returned John to his native time.

The Doctor was present when Pythagoras discovered the connection between mathematics and the physical world.
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Around 500 BC, the Doctor met Sun Tzu at least twice and discussed the
Art of War
.
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The Doctor replaced Sun Tzu as the Chinese emperor’s military advisor but wasn’t terribly effective, as he kept holding conflict resolution seminars rather than fighting.
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The Way of Drell, a religion devoted to universal harmony, was founded in the Mother Temple on Karnor.
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After Irving Braxiatel left the Braxiatel Collection in 2606, he wanted some “me” time and facilitated his transformation into a rock: the Stone of Barter. It became a legendary item that was passed between nomadic tribes, and enabled a literal exchange of qualities such as intelligence, knowledge and paranormal abilities.
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Ancient Greece

The Daemons and Scaroth both influenced ancient Greek civilisation.
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The Athenian philosopher Bigon lived in Greece around two thousand five hundred years ago. In Bigon’s fifty-sixth year, the Urbankans kidnapped him. For the first time in their visits to Earth, the Urbankans encountered resistance.
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The eleventh Doctor thought that Amy and Rory might like to visit the first Olympic Games as a wedding present.
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The Doctor visited Athens and saw the Parthenon being built.
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The Eternals kidnapped a trireme of Athenian sailors from the time of Pericles.
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The Doctor met Alexander the Great
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and Pyrrho
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, possibly on the same visit.

The tenth Doctor planned to take June to Greece in 480 BC, but they ended up in 1500 BC instead.
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The Doctor met Praxiteles, who sculpted the Venus de Milo.
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The Doctor visited one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: the Pharos lighthouse.
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The first lighthouse was built at Alexandria; Astrolabus provided the fire of its lamp. Within a year, starships began to land. “The city had become a crossroads in time. Past and future had conjoined - sorcery and science now walked hand in hand.” The aliens stole Astrolabus’ charts. Alexandria fell, destroyed by a sea monster.

“It was then that Voyager came... from the realms of old time, from the dawn of myth... the very spirit of legend.”

Astrolabus attempted to navigate the timelines, but the disturbances were too great.
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The first Doctor and Susan met Archimedes, and
the Doctor acquired his business card.
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The third Doctor visited Athens and spent time with Archimedes.
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The Doctor taught the playwright Eratosthenes at least some of his craft.
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The Doctor wrote many of the Greek Classics.
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He judged that Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind, was “a lovely bloke, bit of a swinger. Should have seen what he did to poor old Hyacinth”.
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430 BC - Benny: The Oracle of Delphi
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Benny and Jason travelled back in time to ancient Greece, hoping to consult with the Oracle of Delphi pertaining to future events concerning the Braxiatel Collection. The Oracle, a.k.a. Lady Megaira, had gained the gift of prophecy from the Stone of Barter. She unleashed a plague upon Athens as vengeance against the patriarchy for their treatment of women, but herself fell victim to the illness. Benny and Jason distributed a plague-vaccine, and returned home. During these events, Benny met Socrates and Plato.

Benny thought that Plato was a “miserable old git who talked a lot of rubbish”.
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The Doctor met the real Sybil, “a hell of a woman” who could dance the Tarantella and had “nice teeth”. She had a bit of a thing for the Doctor, but when he told her it could “never last”, she replied, “I know.”
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A spaceship fell onto the planet Kasagrad. Rablev, the chief engineer of King Hieronimes, tried to harness its power and capture the throne, but the ship’s atomic stacks overloaded, killing thousands if not millions. The people believed Rablev’s arrogance had offended the gods, and sealed him in the ship. His lost tomb became legendary.
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Jack Harkness once fled a lava flow emanating from Mount Etna on a goat cart.
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The Doctor met Aristotle, who whittered on about bees.
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323 BC (May to 13th June) - Farewell, Great Macedon
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The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan met Alexander the Great during his final days. One of Alexander’s generals, Antipater, tired of Alexander’s refusal to return home to Macedon and led a conspiracy to eliminate the king and replace him with another general, Selecus. The conspirators’ actions led to the deaths of those in line to succeed Alexander: Cleitus, Calanus and Hephaestion. The Doctor’s party was implicated in the deaths, but Alexander judged them innocent - especially after the Doctor and Ian respectively proved their worthiness by walking barefoot on hot coals and winning a wrestling match.

Alexander fell ill (or was poisoned) and refused treatment upon learning from the Doctor’s group that his dream of uniting the entire world was destined to fail. Antipater’s plot was exposed, and Selecus killed Antipater to keep his own treachery secret. Within minutes of Alexander’s death, his remaining generals started squabbling over his throne. Ptolemy aided the Doctor and his friends in making their getaway, and pledged to improve upon the city of Alexandria - and to build an immense library there in Alexander’s honour.

The Thousand Year War on Skaro

On the planet Skaro, the Thals and the Kaleds went to war. During the first century of the conflict, chemical weapons were used, and monstrous mutations developed in the Thal and Kaled gene pool. To keep their races pure, all Mutos were cast out into the wastelands that now covered the planet. As the war continued, resources became more scarce for the foot soldiers - plastic and rifles gave way to animal skins and clubs, but both sides developed ever-more potent missiles. The war would last for a thousand years until there were only two cities left, protected by thick domes.
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Ancient China

The Great Wall of China was built around 300 BC.
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As a young boy, Qin Shi Huang found a spaceship bearing an alien: Meng Tian. Huang used Meng Tian’s knowledge to unite China’s warring states and become its first emperor.
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At the time the Ch’in dynasty ruled in China, the Eternals kidnapped a crew of Chinese sailors.
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At some point, the Celestial Toymaker’s games became interwoven into the fabric of Imperial China.
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c 210 BC - The Emperor of Eternity
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The TARDIS materialised in space, and deflected a meteor toward China. Li Si, a chancellor to the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, regarded the meteor landing as a bad omen and had the people of Dongjun put to death lest they speak of it. The second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrived in the village ten days later. Li Si captured the travellers and the TARDIS, but Qin - who had been masquerading as a monk - was saddened to learn the atrocities committed in his name and gave the Doctor’s party permission to leave.

In 210 BC, an alien intelligence copied the minds of Qin Shi Huang and two of his generals into a stone engram. They would remain dormant until 1865 AD.
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c 210 BC - “The Immortal Emperor”
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The tenth Doctor and Donna saw the Great Wall of China, and found that Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s first general - Meng Tian - was an alien who had built an army of terracotta robots. Following an assassination attempt, Meng Tian had given the Emperor an artificial body. The Emperor learned of Meng Tian’s plans to conquer Earth and slew him - but in doing so became inert and destroyed his palace.

The Jex brutally subjugated the Canavitchi, killing two-thirds of them. The Canavitchi successfully revolted, and swore to eradicate their former masters.
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Two thousand years ago, Varan Tak from the Anthropology Unit on Oskerion was marooned in the asteroid belt when his spacecraft was damaged. He began collecting specimens from Earth.
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The Star Abacus of Beta Phoenii 9 was destroyed by the Paragon Virus in 87 BC.
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